Yasujirô Ozu was born on this day in 1903 and died on this day in 1963.

These trees look like Jimmy Hendrix & Claude Monet did a collab, but this is just what the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) looks like every day: fabulous. The only 'rainforest' eucalyptus, it's native to the Philippines & Indonesia, but introduced in Hawaii, Florida & California.

Earworm of the week!! (always on point) www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Hp...

Netflix presents UGARTE A limited series that explains in laborious detail how Peter Lorre’s character in Casablanca obtained the letters of transit

… and he SERVED ✨

Hooray!

i'd very much like to thank @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for this particular line in the commentary for JUGGERNAUT. Juggernaut is pure chunky knitwear goodness and I , for one, am 100% on board for that sort of thing :-D

The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social ‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏 www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...

Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.

Episode S2E6 of the #CineHistorians Podcast is now available on YouTube! In this episode, we discuss Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki (1973), the history of Senegalese cinema, Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project and much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzd...

For once, dogged persistence has paid off and after 5 months (and crucially, finding a direct line to HR rather than the ghostly helpdesk email they try to palm you off with) I have finally been reimbursed in full by Salford. Let joy be unconfined!

Keeping the British end up, in my contribution to this multinational melodrama overview: www.bfi.org.uk/features/aro...

Stop looking for reasoned Keynesian explanations or expecting even a modicum of liberal whatever. This is neoliberal, neofascist resource extraction and border enforcement to the death.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).

But this is what I was looking for. The panto so bad Barry Howard hung up his dame costume afterwards. A panto so bad Barry Howard, while watching a rehearsal descend into an argument, used the phrase "The problem is, they're all cunts" to another cast member doing his first panto.

'Dozens of women joined a collective LinkedIn experiment this week after a series of viral posts suggested that, for some, changing their gender to “male” boosted their visibility on the network.' 1/3

That is the face of a man who doesn't give the slightest fuck that he ate your plums

How much do I love teaching Jaws? Let me count the ways

I swear there has never been someone described as a "thought leader" whose actual thoughts turned out to be worth paying attention to

Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (17th November 1986). More words of wisdom from Kitty.

It's the 321st day of the year today, so in celebration of this, here's the time that Ted Rogers opened the original version of the show "Uno, Dos, Tres" on Spanish TV, using the English 321 titles including the Yorkshire TV Ident zooming into Dusty Bin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Iw...

"I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads": when you're feeling a bit Medusa Touchy (but without the telekinetic powers)

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

More bad news for Film Studies and Arts and Humanities in UK universities. Please consider signing to support the pushback c.org/cM75QrZX98

If you're up late tonight, then Diana Dors stars in #BritNoir classic Yield to the Night (1956), 12:55am on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social! Directed by #Bristol born J. Lee Thompson and also starring Yvonne Mitchell and Michael Craig. Love the poster artwork for this one.

You'll miss the BBC when it's gone...

Some people pour soy sauce on their vanquished opponent, but not me. I would never Kikkoman when he's down.

Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

Lots of reasons to boycott Spotify, but running ice ads is especially sinister. Screw them!

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

If you think there’s nothing new to say about Wuthering Heights, you’d be wrong. #booksky 📚

I’m fascinated with how films fail and after reading this I really want to watch Alfred the Great.

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

and a few from me too! (including the William Castle cover story)

This article just published, open access - come for the David Hemmings personality coat-hangers, stay for my searingly insightful film promotion analysis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They made a date... 🗡️ with murder! 📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

FUCK YEAH! cstonline.net/defending-th...

I am thrilled beyond compare! ❤️

1908 in cinema

why did the crab go to prison crimes

One of my favourite first watches of this year. Newton is terrific, playing a cuckold who embarks on an elaborate, extended scheme to murder his usurper. Better than De Palma’s Obsession (1976), and arguably superior to Visconti’s (1943) too…

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

A story in three parts

we're surrounded by media all the time. How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day? Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there? Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?

Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...

Contrasting headlines

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable. Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.