Paul C. Dobbs

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Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Lectures on TESOL, inter alia
송강호 내 부조종사다

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"The horrific last Saturday event". I been saying that on the regular for 40 years

What a day today. Got battered all round town, burned to a crisp in cobbled yards, laughed in the face of dehydration, and got a Jac Tshirt

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“And now we move on to liars…”

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If you're looking for a James Cagney movie to watch to celebrate his birthday this is a collection of more than 50 (!?!) of his films. archive.org/details/01-j...

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Therefore a health to all that shot and miss’d.

If you see this post, post something red

If you see this post, post something red (Still for sale)

Middle-American masculinity under pressure in Ida Lupino's taut desert noir, The Hitchhiker. Lupino shows us all she needs is a car, three men, and a script

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Ida Lupino and Joan Fontaine provide articles about each other to Hollywood magazine, June 1942: • “Loony Lupy,” by Joan Fontaine • “Mad Pixie,” by Ida Lupino

Robert Graves said that his old school, Charterhouse, could only be redeemed by tearing it down and rebuilding it in a different place under a different name

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Gene Tierney takes a seat at the bar in The Shanghai Gesture (1941).

What's the best episode of television you've ever watched?

Gonna take this as some sort of blessing from the gods

Chazza finds. Dirk Bogarde tagging his memoir "An Evocation" is just too good isn't it

I'm glad Labour lost a few seats over Gaza. They were lucky that's all it was

Fucking beauty

I'm loving this BBC split screen, very Richard Fleischer

Basildon. Stewards enquiry let's hope it's swift and fiery

Robert Buckland very fiery and impressive telling his own party what time it is. Bit fucking late now mate

Just voted in person for the first time in more than 20 years. God bless Rishi for having the election during my summer UK visit. Also of course fuck him I hope he loses his deposit

Tabloid rack. Very funny to see the Mail and the Express last ditching it for the Tories. Those front pages are like death rattles. This is Liverpool so no The S*n

Middlemarch update: the newlywed Casaubons have had a spat that consisted only of flushed faces and concealed irritation but was somehow up there with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Darren Jones doesn't half remind me of Richard Wattis. Yet anothe reason to vote Labour

Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films. My picks: M - The Misfits (John Huston) O - The Offence (Sidney Lumet) V - Valhalla Rising (Nicholas Winding Refn) I - In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray) E - Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)

Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films. My picks: M - Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) O - Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur) V - Victoria (Sebastian Schipper) I - in the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai) E - Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

Seeing Kim Deal at Glastonbury has done my heart good. I was down the front when she was there with the Pixies in 1989 and can testify she hasn't changed a bit

The Lost World (1925) is barrels of fun. Willis O'Brien's stop motion is, er, charmingly quaint (the technical quantum leap he made between this and King Kong is breathtaking). Wallace Beery's brawling prof looks like he could beat up the dinosaurs, and a fine turn from Jocko the monkey as himself

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Just watched Im Kwon-taek's Mandala (1981). An earnest, striving novice is drawn towards a disgraced older monk who looks for enlightenment in soju bottles and the arms of prostitutes. A masterpiece. If you watch the first five minutes you won't be able to stop www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXi...

만다라(1981) / Mandara (Mandala)www.youtube.com 영화의 자세한 정보를 보려면 아래의 웹주소를 방문하세요.For detailed information on this film, visit :(한국어) https://www.kmdb.or.kr/db/kor/detail/movie/K/03537(English) https://www.km...

Dietrich of the day, The Devil is a Woman (1935). Fun but flimsy. A very thin part for her, and she doesn't seem to take it at all seriously, but she said it was the best thing she ever did with Sternberg, so what do I know?