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Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic. Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc. Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
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FICTION: “Do you get the urge or is it just me? You’re walking along and you see a half-eaten sandwich lying on the ground, covered with bits of grit and crawling with ants, and you think: I want to eat that.” precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/06/15/f... (Contains eating weirdness; food; horror.)

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Film director Alfred Hitchcock at the door of the Rovers Return on the set of Coronation Street, 1964. He was visiting Sidney Bernstein, founder of Granada Television, whom he had known for almost 40 years.

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Green person of the day from the photographer Laura Thompson - Senseless Sight v2 More info about the project and prints on her website www.laura-thompson.net #greenman #dailygreen #greenpersonoftheday #foliatehead #folklore #dailyfolklore #folksky

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Indicating just how The Wednesday Play sprawled out across the year, here is another one, screened sixty years ago today: Troy Kennedy Martin and Roger Smith's adaptation of Illinois-born James Jones's novella, THE PISTOL. This was clearly in a... maysbritain.home.blog/2025/06/16/e... (1)

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Fabulous to see a brand new 35mm print of Rossellini’s JOURNEY TO ITALY (1954) on the big screen tonight, courtesy of the BFI and partners. Mid-century ennui and angst are totally my jam. #FilmSky #FilmOnFilm

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Just under the wire for Father's Day: Jane Fonda with father Henry Fonda, Times Square, 1959. Photograph by Leonard McCombe

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Douglas Sirk's Kind Hearts and Coronets. (Not as good) Replete with dialogue like this; "Sometimes the chains of matrimony are so heavy they have to be carried by three." "My dear Emile, we always have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others."

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What are you prepared to do? Now they've added it to the database, I've updated my brief look at George Clooney's theatre production of 'Good Night, and Good Luck' - my ★★★★ review on Letterboxd boxd.it/a0cZyR

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David Bowie said that the worst regret of his acting career was turning down an unspecified role that Ridley Scott offered him. David Bowie was born on January 8th. Let’s look at Roy Batty’s inception date…

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The legendary John Martyn - Solid air . It’s been a while since I listened to this one , shame on me . #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #records #vinyl

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First watch (on Mubi): Rien à foutre (aka Zero Fucks Given, 2021), dir. Emmanuel Marre & Julie Lecoustre. What begins as a Loach/Dardennes Bros type film (with a Gen Z sensibility) about the exploitative practices of low cost airlines becomes quite a satisfying study of grief & transient living 1/3

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Ten Russian films to get to know me by: Mirror Beanpole Petrov’s Flu The Cranes Are Flying Man With a Movie Camera Khrustalyov, My Car! The Ascent The Asthenic Syndrome Mother and Son Mayak (The Lighthouse) Hon mentions: Andrei Rublev, Brief Encounters, Leto, Hard to be a God #FilmSky

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A propos of nothing but the Alan Sparhawk album is my favourite of the year so far. Great songs but the grief is so palpable 🥲

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