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Just as an art museum exists to collect, protect, and display art, a film museum should foremost collect, preserve, and show movies; one that mainly exhibits costumes and memorabilia is like an ostensible art museum that displays artists' smocks, easels, and receipts.

Did everyone leave milk and cookies out for Dan Duryea in honor of Noirvember last night

Not every day you get compared to Flannery and Jim.

So cool that insurance salesman is a boring signifier in every genre except film noir where it becomes a guarantee that some shit is about to go down

Signing books in France

not saying things are tense, but all the characters from Les Miserables are gradually gathering out side my window to sing a song

If you’re in a Chicago to say you should go see this because it is a masterpiece

In response to the racist vitriol I’m listening to right now let me say: migrants and undocumented Chicagoans ARE Chicagoans. Their home is HERE. And we are not letting them be stolen away from their communities.

So many of my students are heartbroken and terrified right now. I’m going to study this poem with them on Monday.

Flannery O’Connor, fiction readers get it

Nail this to Twitter's front door please.

Cool guide to read Dostoevsky

I’m happy to be featured on this podcast, which was recorded on my recent book tour in France.

There he is

“I thought that love would last forever. But forever is just a weekend—more or less.” Happy birthday, tragic noir goddess Barbara Payton …

here’s a nice photo of Charles Laughton directing the fuck out of THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)

There is definitely an 88 year old billionaire somewhere who loves nothing more than cowboy movies. I believe in you, Kevin.

Everyone is so surprised whenever Affleck is revealed to be quite intelligent. Why did you think there were so many candid shots of him out there looking miserable?

Yep. Every time I show Bergman to my students, they dig him. The Seventh Seal is often lol funny and Autumn Sonata is an intense as a horror movie. He is pretty entertaining.

I’m on BlueSky now. Only two people I’ve followed so far are Eric Beetner and William Shatner. Hit me up over there.