Raoul Peck, the director of Orwell: 2+2=5, on how the writer’s message is missed and misused - and what he would have thought of Trump and Gaza ✏️ @www.johnbleasdale.com

“They sat, shoulder to shoulder, aware of some brotherly urge to hurt the other.” Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

If you can’t afford to buy a Frederick Wiseman Blu-ray you can just sit somewhere and watch something for four hours.

Can you guess who it is?

Well this is leading me down an interesting rabbit hole for the new Sean Connery biography

Snowy mountains in March.

Pilot’s Harrison Ford.

Actors who were never young when they were young.

Off to work

This is a terrific movie that brings George Orwell into our era when we need him badly 💡

Endlich auch bei uns im Kino: der famose PILLION, jetzt schon einer der besten Filme des Jahres. Berührend, witzig, sexy. Mein Interview mit Regisseur Harry Lighton gibt's bei @taz.de: taz.de/Pillion-Regi...

I can’t help but think this focus on Harry Potter and JK Rowling is diminishing. I know she’s funding anti-Trans groups and is a leading spokesperson but I think it’s a tactical error to spend so much energy on HP and her. I could be wrong.

Huge if true

Where’s the sitcom?

Great movie, and incredibly timely.

“What I tried to do in the film, or what Orwell himself did, was place himself in a very wide universal stance against any type of deviance from democracy toward authoritarianism, totalitarianism, Stalinism, or fascism.” Raoul Peck interview by @www.johnbleasdale.com in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

Heading home after a long day doing a job I love

And next on BBC 2 another chance to see Ruggero Deodato’s cult horror movie Cannibal Holocaust. This film includes scenes of animal cruelty some viewers might find upsetting.

White House IT Guy Sends Out Reminder Memo About Child Porn https://theonion.com/white-house-it-guy-sends-out-reminder-memo-about-child-porn/

Don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum but Peaky Blinders really leaves me cold. If I wanted to watch two men wrestle in pig shit I could’ve stayed in Cumbria.

💥 💥 💥 Writers on Film Stephen Volk talks writing Ken Russell’s Gothic and television special Ghostwatch, horror and writing the weird podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

A fantastic book

George Orwell: 2+2=5 I talked to the amazing intellectual and director Raoul Peck for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

They can keep their Homer and Tolstoy, Kerouac and Didion: today I’m delving into Panton’s Tesco sarny review thread and it delights, fascinates and informs. And occasionally moves.

*facepsalm*

Timothee! You have become the very thing you swore to destroy! You were supposed to bring balance to the Spice not destroy it!

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!

Viva Italia

I think we should take a moment of silence as we consider the birth of a massive talent especially in his 116th birthday. That’s the big one. 116.

Will ICE still be at the airports in July when the World Cup starts? Truthfully, it's the USA's best chance to ever win a World Cup if the rest of the countries just boycott and don't show up.

I wish cinematic comedies had as aggressively enthusiastic a fan base as the horror community. I feel it is the least served of genres. Splitsville by the way is brilliant.

Fucking hooray.

Yes they don’t need killing. That’s the last thing they need. Killing.

Cinema Italia returns with 💥 Spasmo 💥 podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/c...

Jonathan Glazer’s amazing kung fu advert youtu.be/a7hKql6LD50?...

I’m caught between the sentences “I have a comfortable income adequate to satisfy my modest desires” And “I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice!”

The car in the background.

Just realized me and Lidia have been a couple for 28 years

Now reading.

Beautiful work of art arrived today courtesy of @christopherjames8d.bsky.social

My interview with Paolo Sorrentino for his latest film La Grazia www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Just listened and really enjoyed this.

Enjoyed latest episode of @www.johnbleasdale.com 's James Bond Book Club podcast, a cool little chat about the late Len Deighton, full of interesting insights. Made me realise I've been very haphazard in my Deighton reading & I need a more structured approach. podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/l...

I sometimes have a real urge to criticize lambast hate on something that everyone else seems to love but I try to avoid doing it. Unless there’s money in it.

The Pepsi test

Here we go again

A podcast episode of the James Bond Book Club to salute and celebrate The late great Len Deighton podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/t...

Perfect

Country that demands everyone say it has a right to exist doesn’t seem to believe any other country around it has the right to exist.

Gabriel Byrne joins me for Writers on Film to talk about his memoir Walking with Ghosts podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...