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@CinemaTweets1 I love Denzel, but he’s far from the only great actor they haven’t cast. Don’t even get me started on the actresses they’ve never employed. It’s okay. There are other great directors.

Denzel Washington has never worked with Paul Thomas Anderson or Martin Scorsese. Am I asking for too much? I am but a meager fan of Cinema. I just want to see one of the best actors alive work with two of the best directors alive. I pray to the Cinema Gods this still happens.

When it comes to editorial corrections, this is one of the greatest of all time.

@RayMegah @marycatedelvey @KnownHeretic Turns out she’s awful. Another one blocked.

@marycatedelvey @KnownHeretic I agree that Circumcision should be banned. Because, what the fuck? But it's nowhere near as 'problematic' as female genital mutilation. There's no comparison. Please don't MaryCate.

Why do we look down on these practices in the Sudan but applaud them in our own country? 🤔🤔🤔 Chest binding IS breast binding. Bottom surgery IS genital mutilation. Why is it barbaric over there, but life saving care here???

JUST IN: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy that would subject thousands of refugees to arrest and detention if after a year in the United States they had yet to obtain green cards reut.rs/4d6XCnl

Awful: Stephen Miller is privately floating the idea of restricting funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New: newrepublic.com/article/208114…

I'm writing a horror novel set in an alternative reality where you can't actually change gender, but everyone still pretends you can. So on the surface, everything is happy and nice, but underneath there's this creeping sense of dread that something truly terrible is going on.

@JoshPhillipsPhD “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” - The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

Replies are filled with other great opening lines What other great opening lines can you add?

Kate Clanchy's 'explainer' blows the roof off the Society of Authors - not before time. open.substack.com/pub/kateclanch…

Link: phetasy.com/p/a-love-lette…

@classic_film I know. I’ve just never warmed to Errol Flynn. I realize that he’s very popular.

Just keep in mind the topic of this topic, please: 1930s Lead Actor.

@Noirchick1 Rear Window or The Birds

Which Hitchcock film would you pick to show someone who’s never seen one?

@smitzer007 @classic_film I’ll definitely vote for Bogart over Flynn - even though he wasn’t a big star yet. He was still in some good movies.

@classic_film First time I've seen this. Humphrey Bogart at no13! 😱

Here is the bracket for the #1930sLeadActor Tournament, which starts tomorrow. Actors who just missed the field include: Charles Laughton, Lionel Barrymore, and Groucho Marx.

@classic_film You’re right! I misread.

@Coolclearwaters His Girl Friday was 1940, though.

Cary Grant was probably bigger in the 1940s, but in the '30 he starred in She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and Only Angels Have Wings (1939).

Once we hit the 35k follower milestone we will kick off our next, large-scale Classics books giveaway. Take note!

@classic_film Not to mention Topper & His Girl Friday!!!

@classic_film I love him in the 30s. The Grant and Hepburn pairing from this era is the tops.

@TheMonologist Love that movie. You get to see how charming Pacino can be.

The Liberal Arts are the core of the university. Both left and right have failed in this regard. "The humanities have been converted into vehicles for leftist activism...chilled by fear and subordinated to whatever ideological fad happens to dominate the moment. The right has sought a utilitarian answer that sees the liberally educated generalist as a luxury; a vision of American education begins and ends with workforce alignment." mindingthecampus.org/2026/03/19/lib…