Robert Redford helped popularise Pachelbel's 'Canon' in his 1980 movie Ordinary People. But he'd first heard the music more than 15 years earlier while stuck in a fogbound hotel in Big Sur. 'It was absolutely haunting,' he said. www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...

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Blackpool, 1981, photo by Chris Steele-Perkins.

When kids ruled the streets. . Killingworth, 1978. Photo Chris Steele-Perkins

Students at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Chris Steele-Perkins 1988

Group of kids in Divis flats, West Belfast, 1978 📷Chris Steele Perkins

Morning all. Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Middlesbrough, Back alley 1976.

West Belfast, Irlande du Nord, Royaume-Uni, 1978 - Chris Steele-Perkins, photographe britannique, membre de l'agence Magnum Photos. #photographie #ChrisSteele-Perkins

Chris Steele-Perkins, 1947-2025

RIP, Chris Steele Perkins, the great Magnum photographer. This image is from ‘The Troubles‘. He was a contemporary of mine at Newcastle University, always had a camera with him

RIP Chris Steele-Perkins, the man who shot the ultimate "What, me worry?" photo.

© Chris Steele-Perkins (28 juil. 1947 - 8 sept. 2025) RIP

RIP Chris Steele-Perkins, a great photographer

RIP Chris Steele-Perkins 1947-2025 🩶

Remembering Chris Steele-Perkins. Great photographer. RIP. https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-chris-steele-perkins-1947-2025/

“I’m not sure I want to give way to the right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The Soothingly Blue Ridge Mountains

Happy UK publication day to Joe Posnanski's Why We Love American Football - A History in 100 Moments. ‘Contemporary sports writing’s biggest star’ Wall St Journal 'This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious...' Ron Kaplan

In the Sunday Times today talking about Leonard and Hungry Paul, Julia Roberts and the whole business. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Ridley Scott on how he shoots so quickly: 'I can now work eight to 11 cameras. I finished my latest film in 34 days. It would normally be 60. Gladiator was 48; normally, 100. I’ve learned to formulate and predetermine, plan on paper and storyboard in my head.' www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Generous of them, but a logistical nightmare I imagine

Morning all. Photographer Homer Sykes. London, 1970's.

Leipzig, 1974 via East German Visuals

Can’t think of a more perfect pose to strike, or a better outfit to wear, for a photo outside the Palast der Republik 🔥 #berlin Via: East German Visuals

East Berlin, 1980s via East German Visuals. Photographer unknown.

East Berlin, 1976. Photo by Peter Straube, via East German Visuals

Come and support the work of Medical Aid for Palestinians at Sound of Silence, featuring the music of Brahms, Messiaen, Britten & Bach, performed by major and emerging talents, at St James's Paddington, 5 Sept @medicalaidpal.bsky.social @taracreme.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sus...

Great opportunity for fresh new writers and untapped talent here. It’ll be me, Steven Knight, Jack Thorne and I think we can get the Williams Brothers to do a few if they’re up for it

Ross King will be talking about his excellent new book The Shortest History of Ancient Rome at Waterstones Gower St on 20 October. Who were the Romans? How did they build such a mighty empire? And why did it fall? @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/the-s...

Paved path above Lumbutts, near Todmorden, west Yorkshire, 1979, photo by Fay Godwin (1931-2005).

South Shields, 1978, photo by Markéta Luskačová.

Postman and Postwoman Having a Picnic, photo by Jane Bown, 1966.

Rabbits used as test subjects in Polfa pharmaceutics Warsaw 1967 Aleksander Jałosiński

Hands holding New York 1954 Vivian Maier

Nothing like a late-night flea hunt. [Georges de La Tour, Woman Catching Fleas, 1630s, Musée Historique, Nancy]

This wonderful shot of a Movie theatre in Naples in 1956 reminds me of one Film in particular. I’m sure it will you too.

Make it dirty and make it like a western - Stephen Frears's suggestions to Hanif Kureishi in writing My Beautiful Laundrette. And how Daniel Day-Lewis was influenced by Clint Eastwood and, perhaps, Marlene Dietrich: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

That time in 1902 when the medieval bell tower at St Mark's Square in Venice crashed to the ground. And was caught on camera!

Abandoned Hotel

James Cromwell on delivering the final line of BABE to camera. 'I didn’t expect what happened: reflected back at me in the camera lens I saw not me, but my father... At the time I hadn’t forgiven my father, who was a director and very critical of my work...' www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Richard Skinner gave me free rein to write about cinema for his forthcoming anthology The Carbon Arc. Having already revisited two of the films that made an indelible impression on me when I was young (What a Carve Up and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) this was a chance to discuss the third.

Karel Dujardin, A Party of Charlatans in an Italian Landscape, 1657 (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

With an innate sense of the dramatic, Jaivin conjures up these historical moments like a scriptwriter for an epic...' - Linda Jaivin's BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA reviewed by Wanning Sun in @theconvo-bot.bsky.social theconversation.com/chinas-night...

How Richard Harris dying led to Michael Gambon getting expensive new teeth and how that shortened Henry IV I and II by 20 mins @elliotlevey.bsky.social @lindesay-irvine.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Working @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social I interviewed Philip Lymbery about the failings of British factory farming and how we can put things right to achieve a nature-friendly future. @philip-ciwf.bsky.social @ciwf.org.uk Link to interview: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...