Tony H

@tonyhightower

New Yorker in Paris. I run, I dad, I won reasonably big on Jeopardy & Millionaire (and Cash Cab) in a previous life. Serious @joannascutts.bsky.social stan. He/him.

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Tony H@tonyhightower· Jun 17

Name a show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Let's Bowl was a Comedy Central show that ran for like 20 minutes in the early aughts. It was... well, imagine "The People's Court" on a bowling alley. I loved it.

Tony H@tonyhightower· May 29

📽 #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday I liked everything I saw this week, because either (1) I only watch things I enjoy, (2) I'm keen to see the good in things and people and the art they make, or (3) I'm a sucker.

My Letterboxd Last Four Watched screencap for the week ending May 29, 2026. They are:

- The Stranger (2025) (4 stars)
- Koko's Earth Control (1928) (3 1/2 stars)
- Mother Mary (2026) (4 stars)
- Africa Blanca (2025) (4 1/2 stars)

Tony H@tonyhightower· May 23

Looks good to me.

Star Trek meme image, with the quote from the WKRP Thanksgiving episode, "As god is my witness / I thought turkeys could fly"

Tony H@tonyhightower· May 18

If Star Wars was cast in 3150 BCE Chewbacca, Han, Leia and Luke

A color drawing depicting four figures from Ancient Egyptian mythology, three of which look fully human, and one (on the left) with the head of a hawk (is that Osiris?). The outer figures are looking away, and the two in the middle, one man holding two small containers of food, and a woman (Cleopatra?) in a white gown, are facing each other. Hieroglyphic writing fills the spaces between them.

Tony H@tonyhightower· May 8

The first album you ever owned.

Tony H@tonyhightower· May 1

Happy Chungking Express Day to those who celebrate. May the First be with you. #filmsky 📽️

Two screenshots from "Chungking Express", featuring Tony Leung in a green-lit nighttime scene, with his voice-over captioned: "As May 1 begins, I begin to understand / I'm no different from a can of pineapple."

Tony H@tonyhightower· Apr 3

Happy Letterboxd Friday! I never remember to do this, but I'm procrastinating pre-dinner, so here: two excellent shorts, a surprisingly silly 60s Jules et Jim knockoff, and a phenomenal doc about an unfinished Romy Schneider classic. Links in alt text. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Filmsky

Poster Images of my Letterboxd Last Four Watched list from April 3, 2026. In order:

- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009) - Clouzot never finished this 1964 film about a free-spirit gal (Romy Schneider, who is incandescent in the footage we see) and her bitter, jealous husband (Serge Reggiani), getting bogged down in budgets, overreach, and the burdens of a blank check from Hollywood. The footage is mind-blowing, and Romy. Romy, Romy, Romy. - https://boxd.it/dMAqh1

- That's AI! (2026) - A silly short about two men on a park bench watching an acrobat in the park, and debating whether or not he's real. - https://boxd.it/dLmpMv

- Stranded (1965) - Juleen Compton financed, wrote and starred in this story about a sorta-couple and their sorta-gay friend on a fun summer romp among the Greek Islands. For a truly indie production, it's quite fun, and really well shot and put together. - https://boxd.it/dEsMsx

- The Girl Who Cried Pearls (2025) - An animated short (that won an Oscar last month) about poverty and generosity that is equal parts gorgeous and moving. - https://boxd.it/dxXWjz

Tony H@tonyhightower· Mar 22

That warm feeling when someone I know is quote-dunking on someone clearly deserving of it, and to me the reskeet looks like this:

Tony H@tonyhightower· Feb 25

Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope

A meme image of a woodcut drawing of a skeleton swordfighting a conquistador (Also a skeleton) with the text "What are the four character classes? // Wrong answers only." (My reply text is from a Husker Du song.)

Tony H@tonyhightower· Feb 3

Bands are just not hot like this anymore

The New York Dolls, in a grainy color photo from (I'm guessing) 1971 or '72. L to R: Jerry Nolan, hands on his hips, in a polka-dot black blouse open to his solar plexus; Johnny Thunders in a shiny red suit combo, jacket open, shirtless, with a prominent trouser bulge, and long messy black hair; David Johansen, in a one-sleeved pink t-shirt that has NEW YORK written across it in white, wearing a black and white bracelet; Arthur "Killer" Kane, the tallest member of the group, with long blonde (again, messy) hair, dressed in black layers with a silver chain belt; and Sylvain Sylvain, in a cream suit (again, open jacket, no shirt underneath), holding up a cigarette as if to offer it to the viewer. He's holding an issue of "16" magazine. They're standing on a New York Street, in front of what looks to be CBGB.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Feb 1

A hi-res t-shirt graphic, featuring a greenish-white monochrome still of actress Fay Wray looking up in horror, from the 1933 film King Kong, with bright red lettering above & below it reading "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO / FAY WRAY?". It's a reference to a song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jan 14

Post your favorite Star Trek Character. Wrong answers only!

John De Lancie (who was Q on Star Trek: TNG) in an earlier long-running role as Eugene Bradford on "Days Of Our Lives"

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jan 9

Saw this in a bookshop in Paris today. Heated Rivalry is a global thing.

A bookstore sign reading: WE ARE OUT OF THE GAY HOCKEY BOOK... COMING BACK IN STOCK SOON, DON'T WORRY ;) with a howling (non hockey playing) wolf on the sign, for some reason

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 29

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains.

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation.

A single white lit candle against a green wall, vaguely evocative of an Edward Hopper painting. The words SONIC YOUTH and DAYDREAM NATION, in frazzled all-caps in white, in the upper left corner.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 21

The guy who painted this.

A painting: The Portrait of Madame X, by John Singer Sargent. This full length portrait, of a rather attractive woman, hair up, in a glamorous black dress in a slightly awkward pose against a brown table, caused a stir when it was first shown. Now, it's considered a masterpiece of the form.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 11

So I've been looking to blow up my #letterboxd Top Four for a while. I still love all these films unreservedly, but those faves have been static for a bit, and I feel the need to shake things up. Maybe get out of the 1960s a bit too, in either direction.

My Letterboxd Top Four Banner from my personal account, showing the posters for: Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967); Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974); 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963); and In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000).

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 9

You will be visited by 3 spirits

A promotional photo of the band Sleater-Kinney (L-R: Carrie Brownstein, Janet Weiss, Corin Tucker) in a stairwell, looking all 90s cool and whatever.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 8

Some perfectly serviceable duck soup in Montmartre. Hope you're having a good night.

A dinner of duck noodle soup and a Kirin beer, in a restaurant in Montmartre in Paris. Dining out at somewhere cheap and local is a small pleasure I sometimes afford myself after my French classes.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 6

Screw it, I'm in. It's been a great year for seeing tons of quality films.

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My top ten New-To-Me films of 2025:

1) Train Dreams (Clint Bentley, 2025)
2) Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (Radu Jude, 2023)
3) Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024)
4) You, The Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
5) Zero Fucks Given (Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre, 2021)
6) Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972)
7) La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)
8) Europe '51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952)
9) 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
10) India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)

Best Worst Film:
In The Folds Of The Flesh (Sergio Bergonzelli, 1970)

Tony H@tonyhightower· Dec 4

Super moon, moony moony moon.

Paris at night, with an extremely bright moon overhead.

A close-up shot of tonight's super moon, in a clear black sky. Taken with my phone.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Nov 19

Good evening from windy, early-wintery Paris. I hope you're warm and dry, wherever you are.

A view from the bottom of Sacré Cœur hill in Paris, at night. The funicular railway is bedecked in Christmas lights, and the stairway is lit with street lights haloed with mist. The cobbled sidewalk listens in the rain. It's freaking cold.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Oct 25

Lisbon Marathon morning. Pre-dawn. It's misty; they're predicting rayon on the course, which would be so welcome. This is the time on Sprockets where I question every decision I ever made.

A crowd of runners at the start of the Lisbon Marathon. The sun isn't yet up and there's a mist in the air haloing the street lamps.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Oct 24

Good morning from Lisbon.

A breakfast at a green metal table in a public park in Lisbon, consisting of a coffee and pastes de nata. Not shown: extremely aggressive pigeons.

Two waiters in white shirts & black aprons having a smoke outside a restaurant on a sidewalk in Lisbon, in front of a bright yellow wall, with cartoon art bedecked mailboxes beside them.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Sep 26

Meme picture of a doughy evangelist with a crap blue tie with white dots on it, on the set of some TV show, praying OMG SUPER SUPER HARD with the closed caption beneath: "Jesus, I see what you have done for other people, and I want that for me."

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jul 18

After a week in NYC, we're with some friends outside of Boston for a few days. Tonight's cocktail: The Andover Fist. - 1 part bourbon - 2 parts San Pellegrino Limonata Shake with ice, garnish with mint. #cocktailsky #cocktails

An Andover Fist cocktail, consisting of one part bourbon, two parts San Pellegrino Limonata, shaken over ice and garnished with mint, served in a coupe glass.

A can of San Pellegrino Limonata and a decanter of bourbon are behind the glass, and Andy, one of our hosts in a beige cap and black glasses, is photobombing the photo.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jul 8

CDG-JFK. Here goes.

An Air France jet being towed across the airport tarmac, in bright sunlight.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jun 27

The "Disappointed Cricket Fan" meme, featuring a bald South Asian man in a plaid shirt and puffer vest, standing with his hands on his hips, utterly disgusted at something happening on the field of play in front of him.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jun 27

No, that's Bodacious. Bodega is a famous Renaissance painter. You know, this guy.

The Birth Of Venus, a famous Renaissance painting by Pre-Raphaelite painter Sandro Bodega(*), featuring a naked redhead on a shell, surrounded by angels.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jun 19

Hey, now, some of us have more than one.

Today's NYT Spelling Bee. The letters are [(O) M R A V I T], and the word VOMITORIA is spelled out above it. NYT has decided that this is not an acceptable answer. I vigorously disagree.

Tony H@tonyhightower· Jun 14

Name a time travel movie that is not ‘Back To The Future’🎥📽️⏰🖤 TIME AFTER TIME. As a result of seeing this movie as a kid, my imaginary friend was HG Wells, who had just shown up and needed explanation about what had happened in the last century.