Who could forget the giant head-sculpture in Carl Dreyer’s silent masterpiece, Mikaël? No wonder this image resonated with a director so preoccupied with the power of a close-up: he loves to ‘enlarge’ the human head and examine its opaque surfaces.

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Listen to Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit / Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.6 on your streaming service tidal.com/browse/album...

A great masterclass at Create Studios this evening with Marc Jobst on directing for high end TV and film. Fascinating stuff!

A lovely evening screening GHOST STORY among a programme of exceptional films at the 20th edition of Afrika Eye Festival in Bristol. Grateful thanks to the team at the Cube Microplex, and Mike Jenkins and the entire programming team, as well as my fellow directors. 👻🎥

Some photos of a lovely day in Reading, sharing GHOST STORY 🎥👻 with new audiences with “Through A Different Lens” Very grateful to have been invited to share the film, and to be the joint 3rd 🥉 winning audience award! An outstanding day 😃

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival - it was a pleasure sharing GHOST STORY with you, and seeing such interesting and varied horror cinema from around the globe.

A wonderful pair of days at Channel 4 as part of the Leap Collective x Channel 4 Networking Lab.

More good news: Congratulations to Joseph Adelakun for his Best Actor nomination at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival for his lead performance in GHOST STORY 👻🎥 The UVHFF screening will place in London this coming Sunday.

Festivals where you can see GHOST STORY this autumn. Here’s a list of them all in one place: www.instagram.com/p/DQHWy8ODMf... 👻🎥

Delighted to announce that GHOST STORY will have its London premiere at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival! 🎥 👻 🎬 We’ll be screening at 5pm on Sunday November 2nd at the Hens and Chickens Theatre.

Delighted to be part of the Talent Lab for this year’s @reykjavikfilmfestival I’m looking forward to meeting all my fellow filmmakers, and enjoying the films that will be screening this year ☺️🙌🏾🥳

Lots of exciting new films coming soon! 😃

In the late 19thC, Philip Wilson Steer looked to France for new painting styles. His 'Fisher Children, Étaples,' (1884) with its hazy Whistlerian view and groups of children is signposted in other paintings of this era especially in work made at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast.

Madame de… (d. Max Ophüls) and Eyes Wide Shut (d. Stanley Kubrick). It’s easy to see why Kubrick was inspired by Ophüls’ use of camera movement to transport characters and audience to another plane of reality. The effect can be romantic but also dizzying, a dream that waltzes into a nightmare.

Bill Brayshaw, a former policeman, found fame as the dozing art gallery attendant after Harry Rutherford's portrait of him was used as the front cover of the magazine 'John Bull' in 1947. Walter Sickert later said Rutherford was his 'intellectual heir and executor.'

‘There is nothing in the film beyond what you feel,’ said Antonioni to an interviewer. There is nothing in Red Desert beyond what Giuliana feels (or beyond what you feel about her feelings), so how can you understand the role of her environment in shaping her (and your) emotional state? #filmsky

The History of Sound is out now in the US! I want to give a special shout out to my dad, Peter Amidon, who did a beautiful arrangement of "All Is Well," which is featured in the film. You can listen to and download his arrangement here: amidoncommunitymusic.com/products/all...