Anyway, my answer.

I worked at the book shop with that copy in its inventory.

Fun project! I lucked into seeing a screening of The New Babylon with a full orchestra. Nothing since has compared.

Based on the direction of the spine text, this was made by someone outside the US or who doesn’t own books.

Put the Devo air freshener on the xmas tree, came home from dinner and now the entire house is polluted with an Axe body spray stench. Headache for the holidays.

Also: 21: Scherben 31: Kameradschaft 41: Ball of Fire 51: On Dangerous Ground … 01: La Commune (Paris, 1871) 11: You’re Next 21: France

61: Last Year at Marienbad 71: Daughters of Darkness 81: Possession 91: Malina

Can any 📽️ head confirm Disney owns the entire Fox catalog? 3 “classics” on Hulu right now, and it seems like staggering incompetence to not take advantage of that library. Permanent home for Ford, Wellman, Borzage, seminal noirs and westerns, Sunrise; I mean, c’mon, there’s gotta be a reason.

Watched 300 movies in a year for the first time in a decade... not optimistic I'll see any hits before January, so here's a quick list of my favorite first-time watches in 2023 📽️: 1. The Chase (1966) 2. Deadbeat at Dawn (1988) 3. There's Always Tomorrow (1956) 4. Ishtar (1987) 5. Targets (1968)

Left off the timeline is when an unsuspecting American Zoetrope/Francis Ford Coppola publicist-manager-whatever got a fucking earful after stepping into a pedicab during SXSW 📽️ 2011. Linked to in today's Criterion Daily.

How Abel Gance’s Napoleon was restored to full glory

The epic saga of Abel Gance’s extraordinary 1927 masterwork Napoleon displays some of the fearless single-mindedness and megalomaniac ambition of the emperor himself