To paraphrase Mary McCarthy yet again, every word in that Tribune article is a lie, including “and” and “the”.

#last4albums Show us the last four albums you listened to

Apropos of absolutely nothing - because before you travel to a distant galaxy it really is essential to take your clothes off, engage in innuendo, and then roll around the floor with your travelling companion, for no reason whatsoever.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky An Anna May Wong double courtesy of the BFI, a Joyce Grenfell cameo and Lucas Hedges still cute as a button

boxd.it/OZeUU on reflection here’s my chronological list. #FilmSky

Favourite 10 TV comedies in no particular order Spaced The Young Ones Bakersfield PD The Larry Sanders Show Kath and Kim Absolutely Fabulous Soap Car 54, Where Are You? The Good Life Police Squad

So was Melania cosplaying Flo, Vi or Ru at Windsor today? May we not speak of the old days? Of what came after? Shall we hold hands in the old way?

That Gressier run was amazing

Watching the Vienna Philharmonic on the Proms and crushing on the cute bassoonist. It’s like being back in youth orchestra.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky

I keep being asked what my position on trans rights is. So thought I might as well share with you all...

About to get my Godard on. Cinema Sunday. #FilmSky

Poor Caspar.

Charity shop find before doing a double bill at the Chichester Film Festival

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched One crushing disappointment, one fond memory, one total masterpiece, one “he got a BAFTA nomination for that?!? WTF!!” #FilmSky

On the subject of the late and great Terence Stamp, not knowing what the cinematic equivalent term of a coup de theatre is- but that bit in Company of Wolves where Terence Stamp arrives into a 17th century village in a white chauffeur driven Daimler definitely counts.

not the first time I have thought: thank god (or etc) for trans women I find the idea that I could live in a country where a class of people have no dignified access to toilet facilities *terrifying*. to be perfectly self-centred: those countries eventually turn on Jews.

Just out of a fever dream of a movie double bill, and also an unexpected songs by Peggy Lee double bill. Tom Thumb and Johnny Guitar at the BFI. Extraordinary stuff!

Dialogue has never been better than in American novels between the wars.

The only thing anyone’s tried to sell me in Capel Street is strawberries.

As the Trans Pride March was more than 100 000 people reporting this as tens of thousands is both accurate and psychologically misleading - technically it’s also dozens of people. I hate the Guardian/Observer so much.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched One of these was a masterpiece; not the one with dinosaurs. #FilmSky

Every Sunday should be Weimar Sunday. At the BFI to see Robert Weine’s Raskolnikow with live music by Hugo Max. Ich bin sehr, sehr gespannt!

Favourite reads thus far this year #BookSky

Amazing morning seeing queer modernist anti-racist British silent film Borderline at cinema. Looked up the actor Gavin Arthur and what a biography. Presidential grandson, Irish Republican, shagged Edward Carpenter & Neal Cassady, art advisor to Jackie Kennedy, organised the 1st Haight Ashbury be-in

In no order: Frightened Rabbit: The Winter of Mixed Drinks Siau: A La Lueur Moddi: Unsongs Mashrou’ Leila: Ibn El Lail Sheng Xiang: Moving On Rickie Lee Jones; It’s like this Heather Christian & The Team: Mission Drift Moreno Velosa: Music Typewriter Mark Eitzel: Klamath Be Good Tanyas: Blue Horse

It’s #LetterboxdFriday ! #LastFourWatched I needed a triple injection of heartwarming, and in one case saccharine, to balance out the bleakness of Benny’s Video #FilmSky

I did not have a thing! I did not have a thing! I was very much in love with him. Very much in love and there’s a difference. There’s a difference. There’s a difference.

Your annual reminder, that the Shapovalov through the legs ball toss is the cutest thing on the planet. #Wimbledon

Saw this at the BFI season and it was an absolute revelation. Magnificent film and a total rejection of the “racists can be cute” genre such as In the Heat of the Night or Three Billboards.

My 10 films of the century Before Sunset Yi Yi Monsoon Wedding In the Mood for Love Mountains May Depart A Separation Under the Skin Drive My Car Werkmeister Harmonies Summer Hours #FilmSky

Using an image, show a movie you are sure you have watched more than 10 times

Spielberg, Cassavetes, Haneke. My BFI triple bill Sunday about to start. #FilmSky

Why I love reading Icelandic saga- There was a man named Ottar, who lived at Grimstungur. He married Asdis, daughter of Olaf from Haukagil. Their son was Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, and his daughter was named Valgerd. No explanation given. Never mentioned again. What was up with his poetry?

During a Pride March, me and a bunch of friends looked after Eleanor Bron’s bike while she went to buy milk from Marks and Spencer’s. She wasn’t on the march, she just needed milk.

#letterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched All killers, no fillers #filmsky

Favourite film from each decade 10s Oyster Princess 20s The Parson’s Widow 30s Liebelei 40s I Know Where I’m Going 50s Rear Window 60s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 70s Celine & Julie Go Boating 80s Kiki’s Delivery Service 90s After Life 00s Before Sunrise 10s Mountains May Depart 20s Here #FilmSky

Seeing The Piano Teacher straight after Duck Soup may be the most extreme cinema 360* I think I’ve experienced. Now into Wanda. A BFI blowout day.

About to see Duck Soup in an actual cinema. Very, very excited #FilmSky

Ten Japanese films to get to know me by.. Late Autumn After Life Kiki’s Delivery Service High and Low Drive My Car Pulse Mr Thank You Love Under the Crucifix The Wings of Honneamise Our Neighbour Miss Yae #FilmSky

If you’ve seen the clip of Lukas Sieper calling out transphobia in the EU Parliament, you’ll know they’re not lying, but still this is some subtle bragging on Wikipedia

Five favourite black & white films made in 1960 or later My Night at Maud’s The Apartment Cleo from 5 to 7 Persona Letter Never Sent #FilmSky

What’s your Hitchcock top 5? Mine are: 1. Rear Window 2. Young and Innocent 3. Vertigo 4. The Lady Vanishes 5. Family Plot

10 German films to get to know me by: Blind Spot (Alemann) Hitler: A Film From Germany (Syberberg) Aguirre (Herzog) Kings of the Road (Wenders) Western (Grisebach) Transit (Petzold) Lola (Fassbinder) M (Lang) The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Reiniger) The Tim Drum (Schlondorff) #FilmSky

10 German films to get to know me by: Liebelei (Ophuls) Metropolis (Lang) People on Sunday (Siodmak/Ulmer) Bergfest (Eichinger) Afire (Petzold) Der Katzensteg (Lamprecht) Madchen in Uniform (Sagan) Mostly Martha (Nettelbeck) Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder) Barbara (Petzold again-but Nina Hoss!)

The woman selling ice cream at the Royal Opera House said she loves my Chantal Ackerman t- shirt. I’m exactly where I should be right now.

10 French films to get to know me by… The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Celine and Julie Go Boating Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Edouard et Caroline L’ami de Mon Amie Saint Omer Diva La Ronde A Self Made Hero Pierre and Marie

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky

Movies produced abroad are a threat to national security. #FilmSky

Movies produced abroad are a threat to national security. #FilmSky