Excuse me for interrupting your Friday, but I need some love

Amy Madigan! Mainly for the pictures, which are ace. Beware massive WEAPONS spoilers with no warnings) in the text. Doesn't mention Walter Hill's STREETS OF FIRE, love her in that.

With the proviso that Amazon are evil and we shouldn’t use them, it’s incredible how they have managed to totally enshittify their search function with AI, which now fails to find items even when you put in the exact title. It’s often easier to link from an external search engine.

The cat's out of the bag: I'm curating a V-Cinema focus program for the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Electric Miles finally made it to the International Press Shop in Antwerp! @mojomagazine.bsky.social @andrewmale.bsky.social

This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals. I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons. We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely! imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

Unrelated but Mosfilm have uploaded all of Andrey Tarkovsky's films to youtube with english subtitles www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I love that arcade, it's got a proper old school model shop

I like this picture.

RFK Jr probably went to get a chainsaw

STOOPID STOOPID BANGERZ

THE LAST VIKING: Danish/Swedish black comedy from Anders Thomas Jensen (RIDERS OF JUSTICE). Mads Mikkelsen plays a man with dissociative identity disorder who used to think he was a viking but now claims he's John Lennon & appears not to recall where he hid the loot from his brother's bank robbery.

There are a few gateways that led me to working in film but an important one was an interview with Joe Dante in Starburst mag in about 1980 where he talked about his life working with Roger Corman and it sounded like so much fun, so wild, crazy, unfettered & imaginative. Gremlins 3 without Dante? no

Writers. Annual deadline to register your year's work with ALCS is November 30. If you haven't already registered with them, please, please do. It is literal free money, and the necessary admin is almost certainly the best-paid hour's work you'll do all year. www.alcs.co.uk

Good morning from the park.

Nov 6th 1975 - Ennis and Alma Del Mar's divorce is granted. 📽️📅 Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Gare du Midi (2016) photograph by Anne Billson

I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am

Ashamed to admit I didn't understand the John Lewis ad, though I ended up fast-forwarding through it because I was bored. Did he meet his son at the disco? Was he not supposed to be there? Was he trying to pick up a man? Did he leave his wife and kids at home while he went out raving? I give up.

@annebillson.bsky.social apple.news/A7ziuLRVzTaO...

filmmaker mira nair created mississippi masala and the next mayor of new york, bravo🫡

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle. www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...

Rewatched THE FRENCH DISPATCH last night. I know it’s not everyone’s pick for Best Wes, but gosh, I just love it.

Nov 5th 1955 - Dr. Emmett Brown slipped and struck his head on the sink. When he regained consciousness, he had a sudden, vivid vision: the design of the flux capacitor. 📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)

Good morning!

Last night, heard a horrible wailing outside, found someone jumped off the railway bridge, failed suicide attempt, broken legs, great distress. Called 999 but line was bad so had to flag down passers by to call. No neighbours came out, passers by had ear buds, I was the only person who heard it!

Hey Belfast - tomorrow I will be conducting a Q&A with Ben Wheatley after the Irish premiere of his ramshackle, handmade, brain-twisting, zero-budget new movie BULK. Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky. belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...

I liked it a lot. A very personal story about a very special moment in time. Shame about the music, but no surprise, really. The movie isn't about the music, so maybe it's better this way.

Penny for the Guy

Amsterdam fam: I have a spare ticket to Kae Tempest at the Tivoli in Utrecht this evening. I’m nine thousand miles away so can’t make it. Shout if you’d like to go - free to first taker.

If you like Japanese crime cinema, surely there’s no label on Earth more exciting than @filmsradiance.bsky.social right now. 🇯🇵❤️‍🔥

Here's a young Sam Peckinpah playing a bit part as a bank teller opposite Joel McCrea in Jacques Tourneur's Wichita (1955). I think you'll agree that Peckinpah's performance is nuanced & riveting, just like his films

KÖLN 75 looks fun. John Magaro (who is stacking up a pretty amazing filmography) as Keith Jarrett!

I’m still waiting.

Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!

Crikey. Thank goodness I was flying back from Trieste (with three-hour Frankfurt stopover) on Monday night and not Tuesday night. I might have been stuck at Frankfurt Airport FOR EVER.

Margot Kidder on her MISSOURI BREAKS documentary: "I filmed all the behind-the-scenes rows & arguments & shot footage of the vet shooting up the horses with tranquilizers so the actors would look as if they rode well... Then when they fired me, I realized what they'd wanted was a publicity film."

Margot Kidder in New York, photographed by Patrick Jarnoux, 1979. You will never be this cool. It’s simply not going to happen. Condolences.

so after this week, no Ryanair for me!

#Hildy Out of shot: The laptop she just pushed off my lap because it was demanding too much of my attention.

A photo of my father who, while looking to tidy the bookshelves behind the armchair, has found behind the books….another full shelf of books. Like Narnia, only you push through the wardrobe to find more wardrobe, and more wardrobe beyond that. Miles of wardrobe.

thank you for not fucking this up, New York City

I could be wrong but I don't think it's possible to recapture something like THE MUMMY today. If they made it just as terrible everyone would hate it, if they made it actually good it wouldn't feel the same. Ask Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. Shitty '90s blockbusters exist in their own bubble.

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

I talked about Frankenstein with the very wonderful @ellenejones.bsky.social for BBC's latest Screenshot podcast. Always a pleasure, not least because - as usual - they cleverly edited it so I sound more intelligent & articulate than I really am.

Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp & Johnny Dankworth are recording the Modesty Blaise soundtrack. Eve Arnold took this marvellous shot, 1965. song.link/y/Zaw0E-5jHSY