Girls is a ridiculously accurate, unromanticized portrait of rich kids moving to the big city. also she did an amazing job setting the tone for Industry, a similarly sickeningly close read of the types of people who get into finance as a profession
October 13, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Girls is a ridiculously accurate, unromanticized portrait of rich kids moving to the big city. also she did an amazing job setting the tone for Industry, a similarly sickeningly close read of the types of people who get into finance as a profession
Also, re first skeet - UNromanticized. Sheesh.
October 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Also, re first skeet - UNromanticized. Sheesh.
The film has great texture, and Altman finds a kindred spirit in French cinematographer Jean Bofferty, who worked a lot with Claude Sautet in the 70s, imbuing his films with a similarly naturalistic beauty. The production design is also amazing, giving the film an unromanticized period authenticity
August 23, 2026 at 9:17 AM
The film has great texture, and Altman finds a kindred spirit in French cinematographer Jean Bofferty, who worked a lot with Claude Sautet in the 70s, imbuing his films with a similarly naturalistic beauty. The production design is also amazing, giving the film an unromanticized period authenticity
Until he demonstrates even the slightest hint of an unromanticized mental ilness
August 17, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Until he demonstrates even the slightest hint of an unromanticized mental ilness
18. Do you like historical books? Which period?
Yeah! Any period where people had too many interests, not enough sense, and past the turn of the 20th century. Really psyched to finally sit down again with Against The Day, but love noir, weird crime books, and unromanticized history of the 60s & 70s
Yeah! Any period where people had too many interests, not enough sense, and past the turn of the 20th century. Really psyched to finally sit down again with Against The Day, but love noir, weird crime books, and unromanticized history of the 60s & 70s
August 5, 2026 at 12:52 AM
18. Do you like historical books? Which period?
Yeah! Any period where people had too many interests, not enough sense, and past the turn of the 20th century. Really psyched to finally sit down again with Against The Day, but love noir, weird crime books, and unromanticized history of the 60s & 70s
Yeah! Any period where people had too many interests, not enough sense, and past the turn of the 20th century. Really psyched to finally sit down again with Against The Day, but love noir, weird crime books, and unromanticized history of the 60s & 70s
The Butcher Cart https://www.artic.edu/artworks/42953/
July 10, 2026 at 8:12 AM
The Butcher Cart https://www.artic.edu/artworks/42953/
“The 50s sex culture got it right.”
An opinion from someone for whom the 50s is ancient history & who doesn’t know a damn thing about the unromanticized truth of 50s sex culture.
I’m way older than her & have no more than a book-based understanding of 50s sex culture - but even that ain’t pretty.
An opinion from someone for whom the 50s is ancient history & who doesn’t know a damn thing about the unromanticized truth of 50s sex culture.
I’m way older than her & have no more than a book-based understanding of 50s sex culture - but even that ain’t pretty.
June 27, 2026 at 5:50 AM
“The 50s sex culture got it right.”
An opinion from someone for whom the 50s is ancient history & who doesn’t know a damn thing about the unromanticized truth of 50s sex culture.
I’m way older than her & have no more than a book-based understanding of 50s sex culture - but even that ain’t pretty.
An opinion from someone for whom the 50s is ancient history & who doesn’t know a damn thing about the unromanticized truth of 50s sex culture.
I’m way older than her & have no more than a book-based understanding of 50s sex culture - but even that ain’t pretty.
The unromanticized description of Nichole's depression funk. Oof. (Funk in more than one sense, I'm guessing. 😭)
May 31, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The unromanticized description of Nichole's depression funk. Oof. (Funk in more than one sense, I'm guessing. 😭)
I read that and quite a lot of his travel books when I was in my early 20s. He's often comes across as a misanthrope, but I appreciate the unvarnished, unromanticized perspective, even when I don't agree with him
April 25, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I read that and quite a lot of his travel books when I was in my early 20s. He's often comes across as a misanthrope, but I appreciate the unvarnished, unromanticized perspective, even when I don't agree with him
The Criterion Channel has the restoration of Pasolini's neorealist Jesus movie The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, which is great (& was for decades only available in poor video & audio quality). Jesus has a unibrow - that's how unromanticized it is.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1964 • Italy, France
Starring Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
A biblical epic that only the Marxist dissident Pier Paolo Pasolini could make, t...
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April 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
The Criterion Channel has the restoration of Pasolini's neorealist Jesus movie The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, which is great (& was for decades only available in poor video & audio quality). Jesus has a unibrow - that's how unromanticized it is.
www.criterionchannel.com/the-gospel-a...
www.criterionchannel.com/the-gospel-a...
And for a specific slice of men (who are typically more hostile in reaction), I suspect the very unromanticized blunt af presentation of the abusiveness hits a little too close to home.
March 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
And for a specific slice of men (who are typically more hostile in reaction), I suspect the very unromanticized blunt af presentation of the abusiveness hits a little too close to home.
Legit Sopranos and Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America are the most unromanticized depictions of organized crime out there. It doesn't really get bleaker than those two.
February 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Legit Sopranos and Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America are the most unromanticized depictions of organized crime out there. It doesn't really get bleaker than those two.
#BookReview from Olga Nunez Miret of an unromanticized #HistoricalFiction novel. Click over and join the conversation.
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#TuesdayBookBlog The Cleansing by Victoria Alvear (@valvearshecter) #RBRT
Hi, all: I share my review of another book I’ve discovered thanks to Rosie’s Book Review Team. I hadn’t read a book set in this historical period for a very long time, and this on…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
#BookReview from Olga Nunez Miret of an unromanticized #HistoricalFiction novel. Click over and join the conversation.
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I grew up inside the life they're romanticizing.
It wasn't peaceful.
Memory doesn't edit out the violence.
#WomensVoices #TradWife #CulturalCritique #SurvivorPerspective #Unromanticized
It wasn't peaceful.
Memory doesn't edit out the violence.
#WomensVoices #TradWife #CulturalCritique #SurvivorPerspective #Unromanticized
The Life They’re Selling You Isn’t the One I Grew Up In
What the Aesthetic Leaves Out
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February 5, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I grew up inside the life they're romanticizing.
It wasn't peaceful.
Memory doesn't edit out the violence.
#WomensVoices #TradWife #CulturalCritique #SurvivorPerspective #Unromanticized
It wasn't peaceful.
Memory doesn't edit out the violence.
#WomensVoices #TradWife #CulturalCritique #SurvivorPerspective #Unromanticized
The GI Joe comic was also my gateway into The ‘Nam, which introduced me to the history of the Vietnam war. It came out at the perfect time where I was too old for GI Joe but still enjoyed military comics. For a Marvel comic it was a very unromanticized depiction of being on the front lines of a war.
January 23, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The GI Joe comic was also my gateway into The ‘Nam, which introduced me to the history of the Vietnam war. It came out at the perfect time where I was too old for GI Joe but still enjoyed military comics. For a Marvel comic it was a very unromanticized depiction of being on the front lines of a war.
the writer’s akas characterization is just closer on par to what i imagine akas as, a very simple, grounded unromanticized characterization
January 1, 2026 at 9:42 AM
the writer’s akas characterization is just closer on par to what i imagine akas as, a very simple, grounded unromanticized characterization
The first-ever photos of the American West by Timothy O'Sullivan, before Edward S. Curtis
The first ever unromanticized photos of Native Americans that weren't staged
These remarkable 19th century sepia-tinted pictures show the American West as you have never seen it before - as it was charted for the firs...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The first-ever photos of the American West by Timothy O'Sullivan, before Edward S. Curtis
Backward. I want to see the unromanticized history of the past
October 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Backward. I want to see the unromanticized history of the past
![Homo nekotium [businyass man] - salaryman with tiny eyes, square glasses, cat ears and big paw hanss in an attack preparation pose. Naturally, their life cycle is similar to that of a real cat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddjxs7mh57i6c2u6kqfavtxc/bafkreia7kqoc3kbosg27s2jkcfglrabmvdrnf6n264r6zz4k32swmo2aim)
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Are far removed, gifted glimpses of Prophecy's potentialities, gleaned upon seanced sees into deepdived unseens from morrow today curse chaotic, almost but uncertainly as present-tense probabilities watch paranoid delusionellas unfold an unromanticized dramatization into The Now?
October 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Are far removed, gifted glimpses of Prophecy's potentialities, gleaned upon seanced sees into deepdived unseens from morrow today curse chaotic, almost but uncertainly as present-tense probabilities watch paranoid delusionellas unfold an unromanticized dramatization into The Now?
Yeah, I doubt that money will be out of the equation when it's so lucrative, it's why I'm realistically like we can incrementally roll shit back til we can hopefully get some good candidates in there to comb out other big issues over time
Honestly wish we had better unromanticized solutions but-
Honestly wish we had better unromanticized solutions but-
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Yeah, I doubt that money will be out of the equation when it's so lucrative, it's why I'm realistically like we can incrementally roll shit back til we can hopefully get some good candidates in there to comb out other big issues over time
Honestly wish we had better unromanticized solutions but-
Honestly wish we had better unromanticized solutions but-
It's definitely not easy. They're both major introverts and workaholics, and don't like being around people. Ayana's avoidance stems from past betrayals and failed relationships, while Jason simply has antisocial personality disorder. I try my best to portray it seriously and unromanticized.
September 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's definitely not easy. They're both major introverts and workaholics, and don't like being around people. Ayana's avoidance stems from past betrayals and failed relationships, while Jason simply has antisocial personality disorder. I try my best to portray it seriously and unromanticized.
Anyway his nudes (like L'Origine) are wonderful, with (mostly) unromanticized bodies and a better understanding of how boobs slide on a reclining body than most painters of renown lol
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Anyway his nudes (like L'Origine) are wonderful, with (mostly) unromanticized bodies and a better understanding of how boobs slide on a reclining body than most painters of renown lol
40 years ago #PaulVerhoeven gave us the gritty, plague-ridden chaos - #FleshAndBlood
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no heroes, just Sex, violence and survival-Not your 50s romantic medieval movie
#RutgerHaue #JenniferJasonLeigh #CultFilm #GenXGeek #FilmAnniversary #DarkMiddleAges #nerd #geek #genx
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no heroes, just Sex, violence and survival-Not your 50s romantic medieval movie
#RutgerHaue #JenniferJasonLeigh #CultFilm #GenXGeek #FilmAnniversary #DarkMiddleAges #nerd #geek #genx
40 Years ago: Flesh + Blood
Paul Verhoeven’s Flesh and Blood (1985) is a brutal, unromanticized medieval film exploring power, survival, and moral ambiguity. Visceral, controversial, and uncompromising, it remains a cult clas…
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August 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
40 years ago #PaulVerhoeven gave us the gritty, plague-ridden chaos - #FleshAndBlood
mchenryslair.com/2025/08/30/4...
no heroes, just Sex, violence and survival-Not your 50s romantic medieval movie
#RutgerHaue #JenniferJasonLeigh #CultFilm #GenXGeek #FilmAnniversary #DarkMiddleAges #nerd #geek #genx
mchenryslair.com/2025/08/30/4...
no heroes, just Sex, violence and survival-Not your 50s romantic medieval movie
#RutgerHaue #JenniferJasonLeigh #CultFilm #GenXGeek #FilmAnniversary #DarkMiddleAges #nerd #geek #genx