Sam WM
@samwmiell.bsky.social
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mainly film.
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In case any of you missed it on the other platforms, here's what's what
www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/shop
11 days ago
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itâs I need you to be so serious right now november and hardly any of you are being so serious right now
11 days ago
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one thing I like to learn about is 17th century guys with non binary rock climbing enthusiast names
20 days ago
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nnmore
23 days ago
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai
nnmore.substack.com/p/its-all-in...
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It's all in the eyes
RIP to Tatsuya Nakadai
https://nnmore.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-eyes
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TWO NARROW MARGIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) I have curated a three night programme of some of Luc Moulletâs films and shorts at the ICA next month:
www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
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ICA | In Focus: Luc Moullet
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is Londonâs leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by todayâs most...
https://www.ica.art/films/in-focus-moullet
28 days ago
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a GREAT READ for FILM BUFFS in their EARLY FORTIES
about 1 month ago
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since it's the season I asked on the film discord for âsomething genuinely scaryâ, and someone replied âfinding yourself to be identical in certain ways to your parentsâ
about 2 months ago
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Itâs the law in the UK and possibly the anglophone world in general that you can only have good taste in literature or in films, not both at the same time, which is why I no longer check whether I know what a good book is
about 2 months ago
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Hereâs two
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2 months ago
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Great moment in class 1 of Macmahonism school was Bruno pointing out that without Macmahonism we wouldnât know about King Hu, Kiarostami, Yang or Hou. You can also add Hong to that list.
2 months ago
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This is the song from which, as a 13 year old, I learned the words 'hauteur', 'contrite' and 'recidivist'.
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Silkworm - Don't Make Plans This Friday (Chop Shop, Chicago, September 23, 2025)
YouTube video by Joe Boxer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQtdB9MpKU
2 months ago
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all our acts aspire to the condition of music, donât look back, donât look back.
2 months ago
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3 months ago
Changing Landscapes
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Changing Landscapes
A short film about a man returning home after decades away.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/changinglandscapes/changing-landscapes
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It was fun to do these
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3 months ago
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thatâs not what commodity fetishism means
3 months ago
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Narrow Margin 1 is out. >80k words of real cinema, for free, for you.
www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/01
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Narrow Margin - Home
Narrow Margin is a quarterly magazine dedicated to exploring the great artists, critics, and works of an under - and mis-appreciated cinema.
https://www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/01
4 months ago
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Everything they say seems so insubstantial, a word of caution
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Colin Newman - Don't Bring Reminders (Demo)
YouTube video by Paul Dickerson
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Er5zpFW2QBU
4 months ago
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it's funny that Britain is more obsessed with class than any other nation yet English has no word equivalent to déclassement. Like it's too scary to think about.
4 months ago
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Here is the mag and our series with M. Moullet mentioned in Criterionâs daily transmission. Our enemies will continue to appear ever more foolish.
4 months ago
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Kier-La Janisse
4 months ago
A rave review for my latest book COCKFIGHT in
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social
!! Now available from
@fabpress.bsky.social
and in regular distribution catalogues in North America courtesy of SCB. So grateful for such a thoughtful piece, I've been lucky with the few reviews it's gotten so far.
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unbelievable film from the 27 year old (Iâm gonna kms) Allan Dwan
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4 months ago
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virtually all of your irritation with mediocrities and worse in âthe artsâ can be assuaged by remembering that in the long run sucking is its own punishment
4 months ago
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I donât want to be hyperbolic. But this is one of the greatest things that has happened during my lifetime.
5 months ago
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Eric Vernay
5 months ago
passion chef d'oeuvre tardif de John Ford
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im built like this
5 months ago
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The Red Snooze Gone to Sleep 40th Wink I Know Where Iâm Going! (To Sleep) A Catch-Some-Z Tale One of Our Viewers is Napping The Thief of Eye-Baghdad Sleeping Tom Tales of Nodding Offmann
5 months ago
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Sabzian
5 months ago
New issue on Sabzian! Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema With contributions by Pierre EugĂšne, MĂłnica Delgado, Mohammad Reza Amiri, Emmanuel Burdeau, Christine Pichini, Jun Fujita Hirose, Daniel Fairfax, and a new Daney translation.
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Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema
Serge Daney (1944â1992) remains one of the 20th centuryâs most influential film critics. As a country that was âstill missingâ from his map, cinema embodied a deeply felt promise of universality for D...
http://sabzian.be/issue/serge-daney-and-the-promise-of-cinema
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laurentktz.bsky.social
6 months ago
Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 Augustâ4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with
@sabzian.bsky.social
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Ocean Vuong Take me by the huong Lead me to the luong That you understuong
6 months ago
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Bald white middle aged English men should be subject to at the very least a robust cull
6 months ago
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radio friendly unfit shitter
6 months ago
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New York: Narrow Margin, the magazine I edit, is holding some special screenings at Anthology in August. Program(me) is not public yet but I assure you it is nuts.
6 months ago
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âI saw a film by⊠who is the official British film director?â ââŠMike Leigh?â âYes, him.â
6 months ago
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Anyone in London: come and see these Jacques Rozier films at Ciné LumiÚre!
www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-an...
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Jacques Rozier: Summer by the Sea - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni
From Adieu Philippine (1962), his Nouvelle Vague debut heralded by Truffaut as âthe clearest success of the new cinemaâ, to the seaside masterpiece Near OrouĂ«t (1971) and the acclaimed shaggy dog stor...
https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-series/jacques-rozier-summer-by-the-sea/#/
7 months ago
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âRice strikeâ was once a phrase that struck terror into the hearts of magistrates across the prefecture. But now it is apt to elicit joy and approbation from fans of Arsenal Football Club.
7 months ago
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um ACTUALLY I think youâll find John Ford was something of a CONSERVATIVE
7 months ago
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laurentktz.bsky.social
7 months ago
New Serge Daney translation: two hours of discussion with Jacques Rivette (1989). Thanks to Ted Fendt.
sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/05/micr...
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Microfilms: Jacques Rivette
From September 1985 to July 1990, Serge Daney hosted a weekly radio show called Microfilms . Ted Fendt just gifted this blog the translated ...
http://sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/05/microfilms-jacques-rivette.html
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One of the main things for an affair to be is âtorridâ
7 months ago
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one of the most beautiful songs ever written, hope everyoneâs had a good weekend
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XTC -Easter Theatre
YouTube video by egidio sabbadini
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeQjcmt52g&pp=ygUOZWFzdGVyIHRoZWF0cmU%3D
8 months ago
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Possibly a reference to Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnilâs response to hearing her husband Samuel Beckett had won the Nobel: âQuelle catastropheâ.
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8 months ago
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I have been reading and mostly enjoying eccentric ultra-conservative Roberto Calasso but whenever he winds up to something that might be a general political thesis you get a paragraph like this. I would be genuinely grateful if someone could tell me what this means.
8 months ago
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Putrifaction of Guffaws Slain by Appearance of SUBSTACK
8 months ago
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Iâm not going to pretend the move to Bluesky hasnât had its challenges. Deprived of the awe-inspiring resources of three dozen Brazilian zoomers, now I merely ask âDoes anyone know what Fritz Lang thought about neorealism?â into the void.
8 months ago
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Thinking about that footage from the shoot of _Mouchette_ where theyâre all having lunch together on big trestle tables. Probably how movies ought to be made.
8 months ago
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Cinéphile (réactionnaire) au rapport, chef !
9 months ago
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do any of you have recommendations of which Modiano books to read?
9 months ago
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Rohmer films make for rougher watches in your late twenties than in your late teens.
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Tim Midyett
10 months ago
this record is every bit as good as any silkworm album with or without jrlp
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praying to the patron saint of cinema (Jean Renoir) to deliver me from this terrible terrible run of days
10 months ago
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