#Bales2026FilmChallenge Oct. 12. Favorite Foreign Film.
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954). Hideko Takamine as a young schoolteacher who lives during the rise and fall of Japanese nationalism. The 24 eyes belong to her first 12 students. Beautiful film with a strong anti-war theme.
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I can't even stand up in roller skates... Was Gene Kelly even human?!?
(📽️ It's Always Fair Weather, 1955)
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American casting is a fucking joke, why does the girl bullying Carrie look exactly the same as her
Henry Fonda (right) visits the set of Banjo On My Knee (1936), starring Barbara Stanwyck (center) and Joel McCrea (left). Fonda's first film was The Farmer Takes A Wife (1935), co-starring Janet Gaynor, directed by Victor Fleming.
James Stewart, Henry Fonda and William A. Wellman on the set of The Ox-Bow Incident (released in 1943).
Stewart was in the US Army Air Corps. Fonda Joined the US Navy in 1942.
Have you ever worked with the type of person who complains to you about something because they think they can get you to bring it up to management (so they won't have to)?
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#NowWatching GIDEON'S DAY (1958), starring Jack Hawkins and directed by John Ford, on Blu-ray from @indicatorseries
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The median family income in the U.S. has gone from $10K in 1971 to $106k today, an increase of 10x.
However, the median cost of a house has gone from $25K to $445k, an increase of 17x.
And the median cost of a car has gone from $3.6K to $50k, an increase of 14x.
The median cost of college has gone from $2.9k a year to $45k, an increase of 16x.
And the average cost of healthcare per person has gone from $350 to $14.6k, an increase of 42x.
THE AVERAGE PERSON IS WORSE OFF TODAY THAN IN 1971.
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I just had shoulder surgery for a torn labrum (which cannot self repair) and torn biceps tendon. I whole heartedly disagree that it was worse than useless.
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The state of it.
This is reality, folks. It’s a kleptocracy.
Save us all, and yourself, the blather about democracy, liberal values and the rest.
The system that gives to this isn’t your ally. It’s your not-very-friendly parasite. It is in their name, masked by talk of shared values, that ordinary people are pushed to war.
You die. For them.
Wake up. Smell the coffee.
