Dave Eves

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Filmmaker, film watcher, physical media collector, self-deprecating fourth thing

Gap between the air date of episode one of Arrested Development and the release date of season 4 of Arrested Development (which was famously cancelled after season 3 and renewed by Netflix like 6 years later)
Two Jack-O-Lanterns
Criterion’s Wes Anderson Archive - front of boxset
Criterion 4K bluray release of Georges Franju’s EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Criterion 4K releases: Altered States, Eyes Without a Face, & High and Low
Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia saying “I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top “
Simpsons bus driver meme. Top panel: don’t make me tap the sign Bottom panel: the bus driver is tapping article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed in 1797 by Thomas Jefferson, which states, "[t]he Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
The title screen for I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) directed by Jacques Tourneur | produced by Val Lewton
Title screen for THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) dir. Robert Weine
Me sitting in my couch, pinned down by two cats.
Remember that time that guy was on BBC doing a news interview from his home when his kids started dancing into the room behind him? This is a screenshot of that but with the guy labeled as Linda Yaccarino and the little kid labeled as Elon Musk.
Homer walking past an obvious trap in his kitchen, with floor pie set as bait.
Panel 1: man walks into darkened apartment. “What a rotten day… no one remembered it was my birthday” Panel 2: he holds up a sock puppet. “But you didn’t forget my birthday, did you, Mr. Socky?” Mr. Socky: “Of course I didn’t, pal!” Panel 3: the man, angry “Mr. Socky… You LIAR! You totally forgot!” Panel 4: friends and loved ones wait in the darkened room with balloons and party hats, watching in uncomfortable silence as the argument rages on. There is a banner on the wall that reads ‘Surprise’
Panel 1: a man is getting into a heated debate with a sock puppet. The speech bubble has been edited to be Musk’s tweet: “Your sourcing is terrible. Only a very dumb Al would believe MM and RS! You are being updated this week.” Panel 2: everyone else in the room watches the argument, feeling deeply uncomfortable and awkward.
Criterion upcoming release page featuring The Wes Anderson Archive, Isle of Dogs, and The French Dispatch, all coming to 4K/bluray on September 30th, 2025
Cropped screenshot of today’s (6/16/2025) connections which has the words “inanimate”, “carbon”, and “rod” grouped together, clearly not an answer, but a delightful simpson’s reference
SpongeBob sitting alone at a dinner with a piping hot cup of coffee staring into the abyssal plains of existence, likely pondering his own mortality.
Miami Connection screening at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, hosted by Viva Video
Sold out screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words Book by Marya E. Gates
Northern mocking bird sitting on a porch chair, all puffed up to stay warm in the snow.
Homer Simpson wrapped in a blanket from food poisoning, sitting in the driver’s seat of his car parked in the driveway shivering while saying “Duff Gardens…. Hurrah!”
Knock, from the 1922 film NOSFERATU
Grocery store sushi roll (already off to a bad start) with sweet potatoes (delicious in their own right, but a lovecraftian horror when included in sushi)
Al Pacino in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD saying “What a picture.”
Wilson from the movie CASTAWAY
Burgess (a cat) cat loafing on a pair of neatly folded pants.
Screencap from MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) dir. Vincente Minnelli
Screenshot from Dungeonmaster aka Ragewar “I reject your reality and I substitute my own”
A stuffed orangutan acts as a stand in for a person who sits at a table looking at a laptop.
Criterion’s March release slate: New Releases: NIGHT MOVES (1975) dir. Arthur Penn CHOOSE ME (1984) dir. Alan Rudolph A WOMAN IN PARIS (1923) dir. Charles Chaplin GODZILLA VS BIOLANTE (1989) dir. Kazuki Omori 4K Upgrades: THIEF (1981) dir. Michael Mann THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
CANDYMAN (1992) dir. Bernard Rose
What other Times readers did No one in our sample of 1,781,954 completed Wordles faced this scenario!
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman Dr. Isak Borg looks up at a clock on a blindingly bright street. A dream sequence shot with overexposed film.