davidhickman.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaker. Taught film & TV University of York 2009-19. Visiting fellow Wolfson College Cambridge and CRASSH 2014. BAFTA film-voting member. Presently scribbling a lot.
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When (decades ago) I worked at Island Records' distribution warehouse, the forklifts were out of bounds in the afternoons because of the weed cloud hanging over everything.
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Ah yes, that's a horrible movie! But Newman is reliably one of the absolute best
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Nice choices! A couple of my favourites (for personal and professional reasons) are Gustavo Santaolalla's score for Brokeback Mountain (his first, and best) and Asche & Spencer's for Monster's Ball. Both are distinctly left-field and both are almost entirely strings.
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The view of Africa from its southernmost tip - Cape Town.
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I'm not "backing" anyone, least of all your hero Corbyn.
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You're not "biting back". You're just degrading your own life with a bunch of insults. Off you pop
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So resorting to abuse and name-calling isn't really evidence of your somehow being clever is it.
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So the Corbyn years in No 10 must have been better, right?
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Talk us through those years of a Corbyn government.
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Long overdue because it’s frankly a bit of an homage to peeled paint. But at least the fabric is still there, including some lovely disused features like the blocked exit
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Why? I didn't read JKR's post as praise for Trump. Quite the opposite.
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Looking back, it's probably the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Nice shot. The covered market in Oxford?
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Just did, and Jesus wept
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"Suffering" is an odd choice of word too.
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Sad news. And this is the worst time for CNN to have Mark Thompson as its CEO.
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Owen is being wrong about the British Green party, not the American one
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Just seen this - thanks for the reminder of what a brilliant (and still underrated) artist Caroline Coon is.
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Is there that an old District Line train?
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That was an impressive list!
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Nice shot (esp of the prettiest boats on the riverbank here) - and it's probably not what you have in mind but it's striking how much cleaner the foreshore is these days.
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I agree only in the sense that the political centre must seem like a tiny dot in the sky from his POV.
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I once broke a fingernail rushing for the off-switch. That theme music is really triggering
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That's what you get when you write for just one reader, who demands elaborately fawning obeisance.
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Was thinking the same thing. It reminds me in style of some of the best agitprop posters from the 70s.
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I can help. Here's my CV.
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Really? How's her Arabic?
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This I need to know!
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The University of Oxford. Seriously
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Nice false equivalence
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Saw “Flow” a few weeks ago and still think it deserves a best picture nomination somewhere during awards season.
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But the BBC doesn't consist solely of BBC political panel programmes that hardly anyone watches. It also makes a LOT of other stuff which people do.
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Have you checked your...no, never mind.