I wrote about Peter Weir's FEARLESS (1993) and the profound humanism of the film's astonishingly smart, effective, and economical visual strategy for @animusmagazine.bsky.social a while back: animus-magazine.ghost.io/caring-is-sh...

Child’s eye photography. Cinematic close-up (the crash zoom on Lukas Haas’s eye!). Fancying people because they’re a bit damp. Death by grainstorm. The *looking*. So many things that cinema once had time for, and a few that only Peter Weir ever did.

Went to see Witness (1985) at the BFI. One of the very best movies they ever made.

Coming this July, a double-dose of Transmission with Nicolas Cage’s VAMPIRE’S KISS on UHD and two iconic short horror films in TWO BOXES: TELEVISED TERROR IN FRANCO’S SPAIN.

first day as a lawyer for Michael Jackson’s estate….biopic is moving along….now to take a big sip of coffee and check out the settlement terms with one of the children he was accused of abusing pitchfork.com/news/michael...

Surprise Jeff Bridges intro before Peter Weir’s FEARLESS on 35mm at the BFI tonight

A joy to surprise today’s audience for FEARLESS with a pre-recorded video intro by the one and only Jeff Bridges. When I emailed his agent a few weeks back I thought it was a long shot; it is testament to both Bridges’ generosity and Peter Weir’s connection with his actors that this happened at all.

So, some news. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I don’t care about space stuff and people who do genuinely scare me

Some exciting news: www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-ha...

Bertolucci’s NOVECENTO.

Anyone know why my Windows laptop, without fail, just gives up on sound after I’ve been using it a while? I can’t even click on the sound option right now, it’s just greyed out. Please don’t ask me why I’m using a Windows laptop in the first place.

#bestfilminlondontoday Apr 14 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene 'Powerful, assured, full of beautiful imagery & thankfully devoid of easy moralising' WITNESS (1985) in director's season with curator @elazic.bsky.social intro capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

⚡FLASH SALE⚡ This spring, have a new site sale!! Get discounts on over 100 films, including newly available Standard Editions, with prices as low as £7.99! Sale ends Monday 30th March, 10am BST. www.radiancefilms.co.uk/collections/...

Because you're not on Twitter/X here is what the lovely Dave Davies had to say in response to Moby's idiocy re. Lola. Also, I love that The Cockettes were Kinks fans.

tfw oceans are now battlefields

Exciting to hold a sample of my new book, published on 27 March. “I drank down this intoxicating account of Swanson, Stroheim and Kennedy in avid gulps, my eyes bulging with revelation at every turn of the page. Long live Queen Kelly!” - Guy Maddin stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

Tickets go on general sale in about 6 minutes

This is the seating plan for MASTER AND COMMANDER at BFI IMAX with just members’ booking open since yesterday… Non-members’ booking opening tomorrow at noon!

This is the seating plan for MASTER AND COMMANDER at BFI IMAX with just members’ booking open since yesterday… Non-members’ booking opening tomorrow at noon!

Tickets are already on sale to BFI Members! Getting a membership could be a good deal if you’re planning on seeing several films in the season — which you definitely should, since they’re all good: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Tickets are already on sale to BFI Members! Getting a membership could be a good deal if you’re planning on seeing several films in the season — which you definitely should, since they’re all good: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is quite unlike Peter Weir's other films, but it can be seen as a skeleton key to his work. I'll be elaborating on this & more in my intro for the BFI season 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗿 on Monday 30 March at 6pm in NFT1, followed by a screening of the film ⛰️

MASTER AND COMMANDER in 4K, BFI IMAX. You read that right. If you’ve already seen M&C, you know why watching it in IMAX will be incredible. If you’re yet to have the pleasure, I can think of few better ways to experience this stunning boater for the 1st time. Sun 19 April 11am. 🎟️ on sale Thursday!

It has been an honour to curate the BFI season Finding Your Way: The Films of Peter Weir, playing from Monday 30 March and all throughout April 2026. Prints, new restorations, intros and events – and a very special IMAX screening. Tickets go on sale March 12. whatson.bfi.org.uk/online/defau...

Seeing American people on here comment on Keir Starmer’s baffling decision making — this must be what Americans feel like 99% of the time when the rest of the world talks about US politicians. And it sucks!

In this new episode of Hard Truths, @elazic.bsky.social and @manilazic.bsky.social get emotional talking about the work of one of their favourite filmmakers, Maurice Pialat. animus-magazine.ghost.io/hard-truths-...

Listening to a 1976 playlist and genuinely why do I ever bother with any other music

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It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

When it comes to film, is older always better? In the latest Psycho. a reader admits they do not *get* the cinema of John Cassavetes. From this sad predicament, Caspar Salmon finds several ways out of shame, towards a kinder reckoning with cinemas past & present 🙏 animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-67/

WILLIAMS: I’ve been very clear about what happened with the plums. As soon as I realised my error, I fronted up CHOTINER: But you knew they were probably being saved for breakfast? W: Yes. C: Of course, you’d been close to starving W: I had. C: Strange then that you focus on their deliciousness

Our January releases are out now! Featuring a labyrinthine conspiracy thriller, a moving tale of care and communication, and an honourable Yakuza story. All films are shipping now from our site and are also available at retailers.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Two @filmsradiance.bsky.social releases I produced are now out in the world. Get yours now 💿

A staple of our programme and a long-time favourite here at the PCC, MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD returns to our screen Sat 24th Jan & Wed 11th March at 8:45pm from a beautiful 35mm print. 🎟️: buff.ly/YtMpEcf

Tremendously excited to be producing this essential box set

In his latest Psycho. column, Caspar looks ahead to a happy Lisa Kudrow year: animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-65/

Haven’t baked as many chicken pies as I would have liked to this year, but at least today’s LOTR-themed creation (made to coincide with our New Year’s Eve watching) is one of my all-time best.

Is love real, or a socially accepted form of delusion? Is romance a choice, or written in the unalterable script of our destiny? As Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE (1995) turns 30, Elena and Manuela revisit his Before Trilogy and discuss NOUVELLE VAGUE. animus-magazine.ghost.io/hard-truths-...

Absolutely thrilled to be publishing such a wonderful essay from Robert. Bringing back long-form pieces on Animus has been a highlight of my year.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Searching for gift ideas for fellow film lover? We've just introduced a Radiance Gift Card. This digital product will be delivered by email with instructions of how to redeem it. Available on our site now.

Even if you're not someone who spends a lot of time in cinemas trying not to lose it whenever someone's wrist suddenly lights up during a movie, the smart watch is an awful invention, and it's obviously helped normalise meta glasses which beautiful women worldwide must destroy with their bare hands.

Sneering douchebag: "You're gonna be famous on the internet!" The Internet:

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

Until December 7th, get a 2 for £22 discount across a range of our titles from Zavvi. www.zavvi.com/brands/radia...

"Don't you realise what she is?" The dazzling Daughters of Darkness is now available at retailers, and already shipping from our site. Get this delicious piece of Euro-horror for your Halloween viewing.🦇

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.