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Watching the Chair Company and I think Tim Robinson could actually do a decent adaptation of Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED.

EDVARD MUNCH (1974)

Luc Moullet on cinephilia as the preserve of the man-child

Rest in peace Peter Watkins. A filmmaker whose work was stridently intellectual and genuinely radical. But even at their most righteously indignant, his films felt like they came from a place of deep humanity. They could be remarkably tender too.

"Everything that happens in our society—war, conquest, science, consumption, love, and child-rearing—are marked by the fact that they happen in capitalist time". Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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my good pals and former video store colleagues, Reece and Bjorn, kindly invited me back on their podcast to talk about Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM (1999). Check it out 👇👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...

The Imagination is Currently Closed

Sigmund Freud in a letter to Stefan Zweig: ‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’

New writerly achievement unlocked (bought a copy of a lit journal I contributed to from a secondhand charity shop)

I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm at a loss for something to watch, I'll generally throw on the B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? documentary

Aki Kaurismäki on Terrence Malick: "The first one [Badlands] was OK. That was in the 1970s. After that they were Christian bullshit."

I feel like sitting in the middle seat on a aeroplane has supplanted the word "moist" as the most common thing people pretend to hate

Very moved by this sentence from an old obituary for Roger Shattuck: "A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".

A real rogues gallery of chancers in this list (apart from Mary Gaitskill, she's cool) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

MUSEUM HOURS (2012)... what a picture

Do you even know if Tintin is supposed to be his first name? Or is it his surname? What about Captain Haddock's first name?

fuck Mubi and their stupid statement. Cancelled my subscription today

I could easily be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. No problem

Very moved to learn that Sir Thomas Browne, author of Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial, coined the word "swaggy."

RIP Michael Roemer. Absolutely mind-blowing to consider that he made his first film in 1949. For context, THE THIRD MAN, ADAM'S RIB and WHITE HEAT were released that year. Hell, Jean-Pierre Melville made his debut in '49 too with LE SILENCE DE LA MER!

Postscript from Rivette's GANG OF FOUR

Jacques Rivette on ghosts:

The only Alcatraz I want to see on the timeline 🫡 youtu.be/RCCuAxwjESE?...

God, I love cinema #kino

like you can sometimes intuit if a book was written by hand or by word processor, you can sometimes intuit that a filmmaker knows how to torrent

Holiday book haul

Tag yrself I'm 'Robert Altman [illegible]'

The 'Dream Techniques' Kazuo Ishiguro used to write THE UNCONSOLED

if you happen to find yourself in London, I would highly recommend the Brothers Quay exhibit at Swedenborg House

I was listening to an old interview with Mavis Gallant (who was born 1922) and they just asked her what she thought of Terminator 2

Thrilled to have an essay in the current Dublin Review. It's about seeing things that maybe aren't there (or, to put it another way, not seeing things that are right in front of you).