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Lindsey, 30-something, Michigan. Lover of books, films, songs, cats, and physical media. I write about old movies (very occasionally) at TheMotionPictures.net! Tumblin' since March 2010.

[emmanuelleriva]

The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor

[marypickfords]

Dance, Fools, Dance (Harry Beaumont, 1931)

[rhettroblues]

JOAN CRAWFORD as Bonnie Jordan DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE (1931)— dir. Harry Beaumont

[vintagegirls]

Bette Davis & Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance (1943)

[manderley]

GOLDEN BOY dir. Rouben Mamoulian (1939)

[rosie-tyler]

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro + paintings

[stars-bean]

Dark Passage (1947) dir. Delmer Daves

[admireforever]

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

[jakeperalta]

favourite 2025 albums -> A MATTER OF TIME by Laufey

[tomdestry]

Original trailer for Dracula (1931) dir. Tod Browning

[citizenscreen]

Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull on January 18, 1935 to promote Tod Browning’s MARK OF THE VAMPIRE released in April of that year.

[oldshowbiz]

[brandonlees]

DIANA DORS as LYNN

THE LONG HAUL (1957) dir, Ken Hughes

[recollective]

January 2024 in Film

It’s hard to believe we’re already more than a month into 2024. I hope you’ve had a good viewing year so far! January was a big month of re-watching for me. (My new-to-me viewing has picked up in February, though!) Here’s a look back at what I watched in the first month of the year. New-to-me viewings: 3 Re-watches: 15 Total for January: 18 Total for 2024 (so far): 18 The new-to-me…

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Where I've Been (Again) + A Recap of TMP's Missing Years

Hey there, movie buffs! Once again, I find myself in a position where it has been a ridiculously long time since I last blogged. As a warning, this post will be somewhat sad. But if you skip ahead to the recap section, you’ll see the good, bad, and weird of everything I’ve watched since 2020. Where I’ve Been (Again) My last update here was in 2021. I told you where I’d been and shared my picks…

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Collector's Corner: Criterion Flash Sale Picks

Collector’s Corner: Criterion Flash Sale Picks

In the next Collector’s Corner, I’ll talk about decluttering my film-related book collection. I haven’t decluttered my DVD and Blu-ray collection in the same way — discs are lighter and easier to move, haha — but I’ve slowed down on buying them over the past couple of years. I skipped several Criterion flash sales and B&N sales in my time away from the blog (almost all of them, in fact), but my…

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The Blog That Wouldn't Die (or: Where I've Been)

The Blog That Wouldn’t Die (or: Where I’ve Been)

Hi there, movie buffs! It’s been a long time since I’ve written here — well over a year. A lot has happened in that time. I’ll spare you most of the details of the last 17-ish months, but what started as a short break to adjust to the stresses of a global “panoramic” (as the Internet sometimes calls it) became an extended period of (not new, but worsening) depression and anxiety, followed by…

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