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Enjoying the creepy DEAD RINGERS-esque energy in this LRB profile of the Barclay brothers: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Birding is officially out in paperback today loves. I’ve seen copies creeping into the world over the last couple of weeks, so it doesn’t feel like a big shiny enervating event like initial publication, but it’s still truly wonderful to see it emerge in another form that might reach more readers

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~15 years ago, I got to a Ryan Adams concert late. His opener was a guy doing an elaborate, bone dry impression of Mark Twain. Just a guy dressed like Mark Twain saying Mark Twain stuff for 20 minutes. At the end, over the PA, a man said "Val Kilmer, everybody." I somehow did not dream this. RIP.

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Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

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this is their response to an Oscar-winning filmmaker being kidnapped and assaulted explicitly because he won an Academy Award. Disgraceful.

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Early Bird passes are on sale for the 9th edition of Cinema Rediscovered, the UK’s leading festival of newly restored & re-found cinematic gems in & around Bristol UNESCO City of Film 23 - 27 July 2025. Get access the 50+ event line-up of events, exclusive deals + priority booking via the in bio 🎟️

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Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM

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The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵 1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?

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There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

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Thinking about CGI and all that stuff, here’s a clip of Anchors Aweigh! from 1945 that is another highpoint in visual effects.

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That time I took some Francesca Woodman portraits of my cat Blixa (#RIP)

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I don’t blame the individual novelists here - publishers quite often push titles and covers on authors - but there is something unsettling about the fact that, collected together, these covers make Auschwitz sound like a hipster neighbourhood with cool coffee shops and a Waitrose

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"I'm sorry if you feel like I built a luxury spa"

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In these ridiculously bleak times, it's worth mentioning that there's a new Errol Morris documentary based on one of the best true crime books of the decade - Tom O'Neill's Chaos, about Manson, MKUltra and a lot more - out today. Even though it's on fucking Netflix.

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I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

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Rail open data is really detailed these days. Realtime Trains not only knows that the train was cancelled due to an ill passenger, but also knows what they were ill with.

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I know the Academy Award's In Memoriam is an annual car crash of omissions (I haven't watched it and probably won't bother) but no ALAIN DELON? Really? Needless to say, no such gaffe in TCM Remembers. (Do yourself a favour, Academy, and get these guys to do the segment.)

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When I've finished writing about Otar Iosseliani, I'm moving onto Wojciech Jerzy Has (timed to coincide with the upcoming London retrospective in April), but in the meantime here's a beginners' guide to this extraordinary, hugely underrated Polish master that the BFI kindly commissioned from me.

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After last year's Cinema Rediscovered I made this video essay about how watching THE CONVERSATION and LE SAMOURAÏ in tandem changed the way I saw both films. Now it feels like something of a farewell to both Gene & Alain too: vimeo.com/1001775426

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Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

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Frustrating that the problem “the worst people in the world are obsessed with going to space and hate basic safety regulations” hasn’t solved itself

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Celestial has a new Shaw Brothers YouTube sharing full movies with subs in glorious DVD quality! Lots of rare titles so far, like the 1st film Chang Cheh directed for Shaw (co-directed w/ Yuan Qiu-Feng), the musical The Butterfly Chalice. Haven't seen it yet (or any of the others), so this is neato!

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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

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With @realgdt.bsky.social's CRONOS (1992) out today on Blu-ray/4K UHD from BFI, here is my cross-section of 10 great Mexican horror films, also for BFI www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

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Happy tenth birthday to a real one

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Sometimes I get a bit melancholy at what BBC Four has become, and then they pull a gem like this from the archive and I'm grateful the channel even exists at all. For fifty minutes, David Lynch lives again... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

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Never misses

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While idly scrolling, I chanced upon this still from Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot, and for a brief second I thought "What, there was an American remake of Minder?!?"

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Here's a piece I just wrote for the British Film Institute on colour in Japanese film, to tie in with the Japan Foundation UK's screenings of CARMEN COMES HOME as part of its annual touring season. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

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Altho I prefer to celebrate the days folks came into this world , it has been brought to my attention that this day some years ago Lux Interior ascended onwards to yet another plane. Here’s a typical night on tour with the force which was Lux . youtu.be/Az0W9VNDAt8?...

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Found a first edition of Jon Ronson's THEM in my local chazza which turned out to have a ticket to the 2002 BAFTAs inside as a bookmark, and now feeling half obliged to start a months-long dive down a series of rabbit holes to uncover the original owner's identity

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He makes himself big

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Here's the short film Derek Jarman made with Marianne Faithfull for Broken English, it's not a music video, it's art and it is what the song and the singer deserved. RIP. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...

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paramount theater, oakland, california, 1978

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OpenAI right now

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Absolutely batshit you can watch on live TV a rotting whale eating, bear corpse vandalizing, brainworm eaten, anti-science sex pest who drove an ex wife to suicide & looks exactly like corrupted Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks & sounds like Megatron auditioning to be head of America’s healthcare.

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I sometimes thinking about this Canon ad with Godzilla at a copy machine when I’m feeling sad

submitted 66 days ago • 117 comments

Staggering yet unsurprising greed from the poisonous, evil cunts at Criterion Capital. It’s not enough to own 95% of Leicester Square and do nothing of value with it, they have to take the one part that everyone likes and turn that into one more soulless cash funnel for billionaire owner Asif Aziz

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#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

submitted 66 days ago • 82 comments

This is so goddamn funny

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I'd hate to see the Unnatural Creeping Baby Doll.

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Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen. We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.

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This is a beautiful tribute.

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One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

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