#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Just three films this week, but two were bangers #FilmSky

Cat, summerhouse, Gertrude Stein. Bliss

boxd.it/TU6EE My list of under-loved gems. The films in my top 1000 list which are the least popular on Letterboxd. Isabelle Huppert as Marie Curie is unpopular? What’s wrong with you people? #FilmSky

For Star Wars Day give us your top 10 sci-fi films Metropolis Blade Runner Under the Skin Akira The City of Lost Children Alphaville The Man in the White Suit eXistenZ Flash Gordon Ivan Vasilyevich Changes his Profession #FilmSky

Great to see the silent version of The Cat and the Canary today, shown rather tenuously (but who’s complaining) to celebrate the birthday of Violet Melnotte, trailblazing theatre impressario and cinema owner. share.google/GYF7w8Xg7c26...

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Thirtysomething Spaced The Bridge Buffy Bagpuss The Boys from the Blackstuff I Claudius Bakersfield PD The X Files Testament of Youth The Killing The Owl Service The Young Ones This Life Timeslip

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Ending a recent cinema drought #FilmSky

Surabaya Johnny-Brecht/Weill My Funny Valentine -Rogers/ Hart All the Things You Are- Kern/Hammerstein Something Very Strange- N. Coward Amelia- Joni Mitchell Take Courage- Mark Eitzel Hockey- Jane Siberry Nsalfik- Chab Sahraoui & Fadela Working in Corners - Nanci Griffith Ladies Who Lunch- Sondheim

Working from home

Share a GIF from a Western you love

What are some of your favourite movie scores? Under the Skin- Mica Levi Drowning By Numbers- Michael Nyman A Matter of Life and Death- Allan Gray The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Michel Legrand Your Name- Radwimps Local Hero- Mark Knopfler Family Plot- John Williams Elevator to the Gallows- Miles Davis

2000- 2009 movies Drama: Yi Yi (Yang) Action: Zatoichi (Kitano) Horror: Pulse (Kurosawa) Comedy: Mostly Martha (Nettelbeck) Romance : Before Sunset (Linklater) Documentary: Startup.com (Hegedus & Noujaim) Oscar Winner: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee)

youtu.be/Kg8Am3P_UWI As people are sharing good Easter music, Andre Caplet’s Le Miroir de Jesus is worth a listen

My top 5 acting performances of the 2020s- Female (so far) Guslagie Malanda- St Omer Mzia Arabuli- Crossing Susan Chardy- On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Natalie Portman- May December Toko Miura- Drive My Car

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched I like Scott Heim, I like Enid Blyton, but who’s better? There’s only one way to find out. FIGHT!!! #FilmSky

Excuse me, what???

Charity shop find- 1st edition, the original censored version of John Cowper Powys’s Weymouth Sands, with all references to Weymouth taken out. Easily one of my top 20 novels of all time. #BookSky

Just booked theatre tickets for August Bank Holiday 2027. I repeat 2027. And it’s not far off being sold out.

Still have no idea why I-tunes spells it this way. This seems to correspond to no known language. It’s not how it’s listed on physical media. It’s maybe their best known song.

If one were not bothered by the authoritarianism, deregulation, ableism, transphobia, health service privatisation, and the axe taken to one's civil rights by proscribing protest groups as "terrorists"; Mahmood, taken in isolation, would STILL be sufficient reason to never vote Labour again.

Cheats

The sixteen composers whose music you couldn’t live without 1. Stravinsky 2. Myaskovsky 3. M. Monk 4. Tailleferre 5. Ravel 6. Prokofiev 7. Hasse 8. Glass 9. Kodaly 10. Jommelli 11. Borodin 12. Weill 13. Bartok 14. Glazunov 15. Martinu 16. Lambert

Cat and crockery

Every four years, a new curling crush.

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/1OdHDCjud3c #MusicSky

Well, I’m pleased for Rasmus and his sister. They seem lovely

Introduce yourself with 5 songs: Take Courage- Mark Eitzel Hockey- Jane Siberry My Funny Valentine- Rickie Lee Jones Shim el Jasmine- Mashrou’ Leila New Partner- Palace Music #MusicSky

It’s impossible to watch the American Mixed Curling team and not have Ariana DeBose singing “Korey and Cory with a c” in your head.

Go Frida!!!

Who could predict that giving Mandelson a job would end up in a massive scandal? At a rough guess, the entire feckin’ country, that’s who.

Couple of Musee Lumiere highlights. The Lumieres seemed to have grown up with a painting of Sadako’s well which seems quite timeslippy. Secondly, one of them was working on 3D photography in the early thirties- doesn’t photograph obviously, but I was mesmerised by this.

Wasn’t expecting to be so moved at the Musee Lumiere, but felt like a medieval pilgrim coming to Canterbury. This has a strong a case as any as being the birthplace of cinema. Seeing the street those factory workers walked into was properly numinous. The museum is magnificent.

Appropriately attired in the Musee Lumiere.

Poussin goes hatd

5 classes you took in university: Women in agrarian societies African literature American protest movements in the 1960s The politics of education Plekhanov”s “On the question of the individual”s role in history”

Wicked For Nothing

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42. Post the second sentence. “A contractor, or a barkeep, or a baseball manager, perhaps.”

Macron

The culture is just a tiny bit stupider since that “Hamnet and Marty Supreme lack plot” article was unleashed upon the world.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched One rock solid modern masterpiece. And one of the great missed opportunities of the 20th century is Barbara Stanwyck never working with Brecht. Watch Baby Face and imagine what she could have done in The Good Person of Szechwan!

@vulture.com @joereid.bsky.social Respectful enquiry- what is your cinematrix policy on released in US under a subsequently disowned title?

When they said Hamnet would make you cry, they weren’t feckin’ joking. Jesus wept!

First Film/ Last Film of 2025 #Letterboxd

My #Letterboxd most watched for 2025 was frankly unexpected

#LetterboxdFriday , #LastFourWatched Amazingly, these were all first time watches #FilmSky

Ending the year with an El Diablo

Heading into my last movie of the year.

boxd.it/R7ZZQ A year of riches at the cinema. Best new to me films I saw in 2025. #FilmSky

boxd.it/R7YzC My list of the favourite new films in saw in 2025 #FilmSky

27th December is cutting it a bit fine for my film of the year, but loved Sentimental Value. And a great Michael Haneke joke into the bargain.