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paranoidstylist.bsky.social
Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives, John le Carré adaptations. I am not a number, my views are my own!
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On the 25th anniversary of the show @paranoidstylist.bsky.social uploaded his in-depth article on BUGS and its position as "an unacknowledged influence on a later generation of stylish, issue-led thriller series of the 2000s"

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Matthew Macfadyen is old enough to play George Smiley?! Now this makes me feel old... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted to find this early student film by Youssef Chahine, made when he was a teenager at Victoria College. @josearroyo.bsky.social, have you seen this? Also @charloween.bsky.social and @twistedsoup.bsky.social - it's the *real* Alexandria Why... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3G...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Was interviewed for this BBC Culture article on the current prevalence of TV spy dramas. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a basic Film Theory introductory textbook?

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Really enjoying Tom Baker's performance as the hard-drinking, saxophone-playing, romantic protagonist of le Carré's The Russia House in this 1994 radio adaptation. Perfect for his larger-than-life qualities but also shows sides of him I've never really seen elsewhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9HK...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

I don't suppose anyone here knows when Between the Lines was first commissioned? I'm investigating another, ultimately unmade project by World Productions in the early 1990s and trying to figure out the chronology.

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Recirculating this starter pack now it's got a few more people on it. And if you'd like to be added, just say the word. It started with the BAFTSS SIG but anyone is welcome. 'Room for one more inside, sir!', as Miles Malleson might say if he were on Bluesky... go.bsky.app/KD7kfpH

submitted 179 days ago • 4 comments

Having a wonderful time at Cairo International Film Festival, particularly with the Restored Egyptian Classics series which is letting me see a lot of titles I've been seeking for ages in close succession - yesterday Al-Fetewa, today Palace Walk, tomorrow Palace of Desire...

submitted 213 days ago • 0 comments

Hello everyone! I'll start by posting a few pieces of writing I'm particularly pleased with. This is an article about the story of The End of the Line (1970), a little-known original television play by #JohnLeCarré: forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/a...

submitted 215 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 216 days ago • 20 comments