You can still catch a screening of SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social read my intro from last night here: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

TONIGHT!!!

My book is now out in paperback and is under £20!!!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/quiet-pic...

On Saturday 6 December, I will be introducing Moufida Tlatli’s hard-to-see masterpiece SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-si...

If you missed my BFI talk you can read a version of it here! Officially ‘the filthiest’ chapter in the collection btw. open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

For anyone coming to the CALL ME BY YOUR NAME event at the BFI, I am gonna talk about THIS SCENE

If you missed my intro to Letter from an Unknown Woman you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Thank you to @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social and the gorgeous audience last night for LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN! I’ll be back on 6 December to introduce Moufida Tlatli’s SILENCES OF THE PALACE! www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-si...

It is my privilege to introduce LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on Monday 3 November @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/letter...

Btw, if you go to the Letterboxd listing for the del Toro Frankenstein you get lightening and your phone vibrates slightly boxd.it/Ecsg

New Visual Aroma! On Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

London People! I am speaking at the BFI in November: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

On The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Ahead of next week’s premiere of the Guillermo del Toro FrankensteinPo: reposting this piece I wrote back in 2018 for University of London’s Living Frankenstein event: Our cyborg bodies our cyborg selves: www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

New Visual Aroma! films I watched in August: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Girls in pink wigs in film 💖 🩷Brigitte Bardot: Two Weeks In September 🩷Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scott Pilgrim 🩷Zoë Kravitz: The Batman 🩷Scarlett Johansson: Lost In Translation 🩷Natalie Portman: Closer #FilmSky #PinkWigs

New Visual Aroma! On Roger Vadim’s Barbarella open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

New Visual Aroma! More about Jeanne Moreau being hot and sexy in Joseph Losey’s Eva open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

A SPECIAL VISUAL AROMA: On the cult of Lana Del Rey open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

New Visual Aroma! UGLY STEPSISTER: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

New Visual Aroma! On Leontine Sagan’s Maidens in Uniform and lending clothes open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Cleaning out the garage and forgot I once purchased one of the most unhinged pieces of movie tie-in merchandise ever devised

Gillian Anderson and Viola Davis at Cannes 2025

why are you getting recommendations from an algorithm when you could be getting them from a beautiful woman

I wrote about Picnic at Hanging Rock! New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

No Other Land is available to rent directly from the filmmakers (until May 9th I believe) and all proceeds will go directly to those in Masafer Yatta at supportmasaferyatta.com. You can also donate on that same page directly if you've already seen the film or want to give a larger or smaller amount.

Is there a way we can let Team Orca know about the cigar-smoking TERF ex writer on a yacht???

Extremely gorgeous turnout for the protest in Edinburgh yesterday #TransLiberationNow

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Linda Williams changed how we see, think, and argue about pornography, desire, and the moving image. Hard Core was the first serious study of porn as film. Porn Studies recently published a special dossier on her contributions to the field: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1....

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.

If THE SUBSTANCE wins any Oscars tonight, beep me

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Good morning! Happy Twin Peaks day!

Nigel Farage & Liz Truss happy at an event too fascistic even for the political heir to the Le Pens… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey 🐈

In an 8-plus-minute video, Hunter Schafer connected the passport to “historical rises of fascism and everything this new administration represents.” Read more ⤵️

Come to mother on HELLBOUND : open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

This week for Visual Aroma: HELLBOUND Hellraiser 2

At last, the Visual Aroma on why Dracula (1992) is still extremely horny open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

This week for Visual Aroma:

I finally got around to David Lynch Part 2 for Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

My review of Companion is out now with @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/companion-re...

Seated for Companion (2025) review forthcoming later this week for @theconversation.com

I fucking love 'Bones And All' so, I wrote about it.🖤🩸🦴 #LucaGuadagnino #TimotheeChalamet morbidlybeautiful.com/reel-review-...

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

I found I had to write about Babygirl, a film that did things to me open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

David Lynch had a powerful “brand” as a filmmaker. Yet he would say exactly what he felt, or nothing at all, at any given moment. I think, above all, his vision was sincere. But he carried it out with such playfulness and kindness. He truly found a great way to be alive.