It’s Joan Fontaine’s birthday today. I do enjoy this gif. #TCMParty

It’s Deneuve’s birthday, I think we all have a legal +
moral obligation to watch THE HUNGER tonight.

Evening viewing? Before it leaves the Criterion Channel at the end of the month, watch Blake Edwards’s 1962 noir EXPERIMENT IN TERROR! Featuring lustrous cinematography and a Henry Mancini score, this stylish thriller bristles with psychosexual unease. criterionchannel.com/experiment-in-…

shame on San Francisco Chronicle for buying into the Keeler grift and giving it a platform

The color scheme for the DESERT NIGHTS (1929) lobby cards is just dreamy! 🥰

In Susan Seidelman's MAKING MR. RIGHT ('87), John Malkovich plays the dual roles of Dr. Jeff Peters and his android creation Ulysses. The duo are joined by P.R. maven Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) in an attempt to charm the government into continuing to fund the program.

NEW: I spent time with the sisters of Polly Klaas, a 1993 kidnapping victim whose case sparked the most extreme 'tough-on-crime' laws in the US.

They want to undo the mass incarceration adopted in their name: 'Don't use our pain to punish anyone else.' 🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2022/o…

Billy Crystal, Miss Piggy and the Muppets parodying WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

Normalise being filled with BREAD, not dread.

Just perfect

It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.

very cool to live in california and see 800 ads a day with dialysis patients begging u to vote no on 29 bc their clinics might close, and when u look it up it's bc the clinics would rather close than have to hire one nurse and not turn away medicare patients

this week’s newsletter

Heavenly visions for the Halloween season from a vintage spookshow trailer.

Transferred from the Something Weird S-VHS archive, which is housed at AGFA HQ.

me talking about silent cinema for twenties minutes without stopping any time someone gives me an opening in the conversation

In this week's newsletter, some words on the very great Lucio Battisti, plus a happy-to-join-the-chorus boost of the lovely Aftersun. Big ❤️ to readers/subscribers: ashleyclark.substack.com/p/embrace-her-…