ptklein @ptklein
The happiest wayfaring stranger you'll ever meet. Cinema and History @AmericanU. Writing about why we watch movies at https://t.co/dd9Q61iFsr. He/Him/His. ptklein.com Washington, DC Joined March 2009-
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The Hero’s Journey, of course
The Hero’s Journey, of course https://t.co/Y4ZNHPb6Uy
“This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.” “That isn't true. It's a blundering world and a very sad one, yet a little kindness can make it beautiful.” #NowWatching
New Iron & Wine album absolutely slaps. Gonna get a lot of play during the hottest days of summer, I’m afraid.
Bob Marley tennis sequel called Bob Marley: One - Love
Giving me the Moby Ick tbh
Today’s Saturday Morning Movie Club is the last little bit of research for a paper I’m working on about 3D exhibition. #NowWatching for #SMMC
CHALLENGERS (2024, Luca Guadagnino)
Class is in session! We’re also adding these two gems.
Class is in session! We’re also adding these two gems. https://t.co/figZ6lwbT2
Feels like this one gets overlooked a lot and is kind of a hidden gem. Really tremendous stuff. (I’ve got the blu if anyone wants to come over and watch it this summer).
Feels like this one gets overlooked a lot and is kind of a hidden gem. Really tremendous stuff. (I’ve got the blu if anyone wants to come over and watch it this summer).
Oops it's in my head again
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Title cards from my four favorite films
I watched ESCAPE FROM PLANET OF THE APES and had the best time, an Apes thriller as if directed by Frankenheimer or Pakula, a political thriller dealing with celebrity, the danger of American bourgeois capitalism, even government spooks and political assassination. Good movie!
The perfect alignment of the shadows cast by the trains with the coffers of the station vaults in the DC Metro is such an extraordinarily clever and beautiful design choice. Delights me every time I see it
@MrHowardDalton @ptklein does this happen at every game? I need answers
@ptklein Idk about the spell itself but this is basically you
I enjoyed contributing to this video for @DataCapitalEd - speaking about data skills and using data to change the world for the better! x.com/datacapitaled/…
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Jonathan Tunick finally getting nominated for his extraordinary and singular Merrily We Roll Along orchestrations 43 years later oh baby there are tears in my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Relevant (and killer)
I did stand-up last night as "1990s Jerry Seinfeld Doing Bits About His 17-Year-Old Girlfriend"
One of my dearest teachers gets his first Tony nom, and my former boss gets snubbed. Sometimes you really win.
The girlies who got heavy into beatlemania just after some lovely fun pop songs must have felt so vindicated to see their teenybopper crushes prove to be musical geniuses.
"Why does a university invest in an arms manufacturer in the first place?" Question from a student.
some bad news for the president of the university of chicago about arguments based on etymology
Biggest ick is Americans calling pasta fucking noodles 💀
When y’all are on here slandering buttered noodles I just sit the convo out because this is my dinner more then I’d like to admit 😞
@ptklein I loveeee how often our tastes overlap 👯♂️
So 12 years on we finally made it official 😁Beautiful day!
I had my final class of grad school today, which also happened to be my favorite class of the past two years. So bittersweet. I'm still way too stressed to think about it all fondly - but in like 3 months I'm gonna be nostalgic af.