You know, sometimes @Criterion recommends something and you go for it, then it's 1:30 in the morning and your texting everyone in your phone about it. This is one of those movies.
Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Lindsey C. Vickers's THE APPOINTMENT (1981) in our Highway Horror collection! bit.ly/4hAQ397
Never released in cinemas and nearly lost to time, this long-sought-after holy grail of surrealist horror is an unsettling journey into the world of the supernatural, dripping with dreamlike dread.
SAY WORD READ THIS - Every Tuesday, a 20-second book recommendation - 289 - Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan
SAY WORD READ THIS - Every Tuesday, a 20-second book recommendation - 288 - Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
No Exceptions! Unless you want to talk about the baseball playoffs, how great my hair looks, or how much my foot is improving. (that's Jim Boeheim with that sh*t on)
SAY WORD READ THIS - Every Tuesday, a 20-second book recommendation - 287 - Ms. Tree Volume 2 by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty
If you're not getting your readings from a basement apartment on a dark side street in the middle of the night, are you even taroting?
Gary Lime retweeted
Gary Sheffield should be in the Hall of Fame and I barely ever hear anyone say that. Well, I’m saying it. He’s a fucking no-brainer. One of four players with 500 HR and 250 SB. 9x All-Star. Batting champion. Career .393 OBP. It’s insulting how he’s treated like an afterthought.
Gary Lime retweeted
BOB COSTAS: “God himself helps those who dare" is a phrase we've all pondered over when reading Ovid's Metamorphoses. Today, eight Major League Baseball teams will dare to be great like Daedalus and Icarus did eons ago above Crete.
ANTHONY RIZZO: I like the Phillies in 3.
SAY WORD READ THIS - Every Tuesday, a 20-second book recommendation - 286 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
SAY WORD READ THIS - Every Tuesday, a 20-second book recommendation - 285 - The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A major choice to be made, from the Mexican horror movie with the all-time greatest title - EVEN THE WIND IS AFRAID.
Officially in my happy place.
ECLIPSE SERIES 50: SARA GÓMEZ'S REVOLUTIONARY CUBA • Coming to Criterion in December! criterion.com/boxsets/9119-e…
A true cinematic revolutionary who used the camera as her tool in the fight against oppression in all forms, the Afro-Cuban filmmaker brought the stories of ordinary Cubans to the screen with a bracing immediacy and insight.
