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For the Criterion Current, I wrote about the 1948–1951 trilogy of U.K. anthology movies based on W. Somerset Maugham short stories: QUARTET, TRIO and ENCORE. All three are on the Criterion Channel. I enjoyed them so much I spent all summer reading Maugham stories. www.criterion.com/current/post...

He’s so infuriating. I was just in the (new) grand library in Alexandria, Egypt — Bibliotheca Alexandrina — the largest library reading room IN THE WORLD.

First of all this is racist af. Second of all, it’s wildly untrue. And third of all, a group of people does not need to produce science or literature to be fully human or whatever!!! What is this, 1780??? (This is a topic in my book btw)

One of my husband's aunts is a retired professor of comparative literature with a doctorate from the Sorbonne. This is her most famous book in the Arabic-speaking world (about 400 million people). This fing guy can't even buy a suit that fits. jarirbooksusa.com/products/mud...

People were ok w the Rosie the Robot model that did laundry and put dishes away + did dangerous tasks that would put humans at risk. The tech weirdos were like yes, heard! Let’s have the robots suck all joyful, intellectual, rewarding, creative things from you and do them poorly!

WATCH: @hasandpiker helping students vote… what a monster!

Siri, what are three good qualities my child possesses? Siri, is this my beautiful house? Siri, is this my beautiful wife? Siri, how did I get here? Siri, is it the same as it ever was??????

Jack Lemmon, rocking the mid-century Vacation Dad look!

Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

anthropic's entire S-1 is 335 pages long. 94 pages of that are risk factors, the section where it must legally disclose everything that could go wrong with the business

John Vachon for Look magazine Midwinter nights - Night life, 1949

Happy Monday from Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon, shown here relaxing on a Hawaiian beach during a break in filming MISTER ROBERTS, 1954. (Photo by Slim Aarons)

A statue that will suddenly come alive. A fishy horror scene. 💦

Heronkind never say never.

I absolutely loved this movie…my second Satyajit Ray film and I’m eager for more. Wow. boxd.it/gXkRJR

Fifty British peers have called on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on 25 October to bar US rapper Macklemore from entering the UK ahead of a pro-Palestine concert in London. Read more: www.newarab.com/news/uk-peer...

10/22/53: Crime Wave André De Toth #filmnoir gem, w/Mr. Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk ++ Rosenbaum: "gritty, powerful, and economically told" More: @annodracula.bsky.social: johnnyalucard.com/2017/12/23/f... @glennkenny.bsky.social: glennkenny.substack.com/p/tales-from...

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

Hope he wins

NEWS: Robert De Niro delivers a blistering rebuke of Trump and the Supreme Court in a new video condemning threats to voting rights. “I’ve got a message for them: no f**king way.” He urges Americans to vote early and protect their right to vote. Watch.

Fontaine du Terrail à #ClermontFerrand, #PuyDeDôme. Le Terrail était un lieu de passage très fréquenté au Moyen-Age, tirant son n... Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00091994/clermont-ferrand-fontaine-du-terrail

Robert Rauschenberg by Allan Grant for Life Magazine, 1953 "I like to start working when it's almost too late... when my sense of efficiency is exhausted."

Love this photo. I believe Joan was catsitting in this photo.

WOW. This is a jaw-dropper, considering that saying nothing at all was an entirely viable option.

The hunger in the Gaza Strip is part of the election campaign in Israel. Yulia Malinovsky, a Knesset member and candidate on behalf of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, a right-wing opposition figure, blocked trucks carrying food aid to the Gaza Strip and prevented their entry.

Bebe Daniels wonders why Thriftbooks ruins perfectly good dust jackets on old books with their big ugly sticker.

Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain was invited to play golf with Trump and he declined: "Trump should have been in jail long ago. I see no humor whatsoever in his narcissism, in the Epstein files, and especially in the depraved war he unleashed against Iran" 💪🤘 variety.com/2026/music/n...

Avant-garde Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Shiina Ringo posed with a traditional three-stringed shamisen.

I watch this when I want to miss the 80s.

Herbert Lom and Sylvia Syms in No Trees in the Street (1959) 🌳

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Maiden with a unicorn, 1604, in the Palazzo Farnese. Lovely early work by Domenichino (#BTD 1581), under the direction of master Annibale Carracci.

James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

A strata of crows after the storm has passed by.

Francis Leslie M. Forster’s ‘Regent Street Quadrant at Night’ (1897–1898), Museum of London

R.I.P. Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post, the warmest and friendliest film critic I ever knew. We used to cross paths at the Middleburg FF, where she was a tremendously welcoming presence. She was at work on a book about the making of All the President’s Men. We need it now more than ever.

We mourn the loss of our brilliant and beloved colleague Ann Hornaday, longtime film critic for The Washington Post and author of “Talking Pictures” and a forthcoming book on ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN. A gift of a critic, writer and friend. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Ann was one of the kindest colleagues I have ever known: encouraging, genuine, secure in her own work and self. She was one of my champions at WaPo, and she knew the score there. Ann never hoarded information or opportunity—quite the opposite. She knew there was always room for more of us. 💔

Napoleon said his favorite generals were the lucky ones. Well, books can be lucky and unlucky too, and you never know which you're working on. This one, launching in paperback tomorrow, has been lucky. Which caught me by (happy) surprise. In the words of Ed Grimley, "You never can always know!"

In a just world, I would be able to live as a classic film festival hobo, jumping freight trains from town to town with nothing but a bindle full of swag on my shoulder and a smile on my face. Unbelievable lineup hot damn.

Oh, how I wish I could be there! Lived in MoCoMD for 15yrs and came to adore the #AFI Silver, it is a Treasure! Re the #Talbot screening: his grandson Joe directed “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.” 👏🏾🎞️