The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression, and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Ellen E Jones introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

Here I am in @thenerve.news releasing a generation of young British and Irish actors from their Bond-age. None of us are free until we all are, baby ✌🏼🤪💋 www.thenerve.news/p/new-genera...

One weird aspect of the lockdown era that seems almost folkloric now; I, and a lot of people I knew, experienced months of extremely vivid dreams. Seem to remember one or two pieces speculating that strict, repetitive regimens affect human sleep in some way, and then no one mentioned it ever again.

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMF...

Review of the week: Die My Love Lynne Ramsay’s film featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence as an isolated young mother losing her mind is about much more than hormones and ‘mom guilt’, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...

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

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

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.

TONIGHT! Our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980). Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film. Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

“Cinema is liberation”: as more acclaimed films emerge from Palestine, why are many still fighting to reach an audience? This year’s Oscars triumph for No Other Land should have been a watershed. But new titles still struggle to be seen. @ellenejones.bsky.social reports

Join us at The Garden Cinema this coming Monday, where I’ll be intro-ing BABYLON (1980) and in conversation afterwards, part of LRB Screen series www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

Next Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980). Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film. Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

Next Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980). Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film. Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

This is a really good programme 🙏🏾 Including the discussion contextualising this 1975 telefilm, describing how TV was more radical in the 1950s and 60s than we imagine, setting the stage for these later works (not just setting the stage sorry) @ellenejones.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

How can culture fight back in a turbulent world? The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee

Did Spotify kill the music biopic? In the age of streaming and social media, big Hollywood music bios like Scott Cooper's hymn to the Boss feel increasingly old-fashioned, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/bruce-spri...

Listening to the new episode of Screenshot on translation with @ellenejones.bsky.social & @kermodemovie.bsky.social. Reminded me of visiting a video rental shop in mid ‘90s, choosing a French movie, & being advised (in a whisper) by the employee that “it has subtitles”

Thank you, Chis Davies, clearly one of the smartest men on Bluesky right now! Here’s the @screenshotpod.bsky.social episode in question, if anyone wants to give it a listen (also on Spotify/ wherever else you get your pods) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Let’s take care of each other over the next 40 days

Louise by George Hommel, 1927.

My Empire mag interv/w with David Jonsson is now live. If you’ve seen him in RYE LANE or ALIEN:ROMULUS or INDUSTRY or the upcoming Stephen King adap THE LONG WALK, you know what a talent he is. If you don’t know, get to know… www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...

David Jonsson is a unique human: From Industry to Rye Lane, Alien: Romulus to The Long Walk, there's nobody else who moves and behaves quite like him. Been working on this since March, and love it - an incredible shoot from Sylvain Homo, and a tender interview from @ellenejones.bsky.social. Here:

Great edition of #Screenshot on Radio,4 just now. I've admired David Lynch's films (loved Blue Velvet, nightmares from Eraserhead) but not watched #TwinPeaks. That may well have to change. Thanks @ellenejones.bsky.social for and @kermodemovie.bsky.social

Reposting this VERY OBVIOUS advice, but coming from a bloke, in case that helps some people to receive it.

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Bet there’s no acknowledgement of the snow-blindingly obvious in the piece, either

Carrie’s novel is SO shit, it’s really helping with my writer’s block

Once again thrilled to have been invited to contribute to BBC Screenshot podcast with @kermodemovie.bsky.social and @ellenejones.bsky.social, this time to talk about remakes.

I’ve donated - consider this post your sign to do the same. And write to your MP and tell them what a despicable shithouse they are, for not doing everything in their power to end this horror NOW: North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distribution chuffed.org/project/help...

Talking about how it seems very 2014 Twitter, gonna share some articles from around that time that are still must read primers for White folks who still think of oppressive systems as individual beliefs & behaviors, starting with "The New Threat: Racism without Racists" www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/u...

There's a huge collection of writing from opinion to scholarly work on oppression, ways it manifests differently from community to community and how there is no one size fits all solution.

Racism is built on a hierarchal system which positions whiteness at the top. This is why colourism exists across so many communities. Anti-black racism penetrates our society. It is not racist to point this out. This doesn't discount the experiences of any marginalised groups. #dianeabbott

That people experience racism differently is basic racism theory. A Jewish girl probably wouldnt be stripped searched in school. A Black person wouldn't be held accountable for the crimes of a country they've never seen. But both, during their lives, will experience prejudice. Like I said BASIC 🤦🏾

One of the great triumphs of the UK’s right-wing media in the last decade or so is creating an environment where people who are at risk of getting a sun burn from opening the fridge door for too long can lecture Diane Abbott about racism and it isn’t widely seen as utterly absurd

"The fact that a Labour government after Grenfell has decided that the regulation of construction is the problem and the thing they need to dismantle, I think is a fucking obscenity."

Supporting Families from Gaza to Rebuild Their Lives chuffed.org/project/aor?...

Oooooooooh, there’s a new Screenshot episode, wherever you get yer podcasts! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Wrote a thing about the racial politics of SATC spin-off And Just Like That for today’s Guardian… www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Highly recommend the Immigrant Epics episode of Screenshot with @kermodemovie.bsky.social and @ellenejones.bsky.social The guests are always so interesting. Love this pod. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m reviewing films in The Observer today…(Don’t @ me, Wes Anderson fans. It had to be said.) observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Saw this in @newyorker.com & thought of @ellenejones.bsky.social & @kermodemovie.bsky.social (given the latest episode of Screenshot)

Come help (anti-)christen London’s new DIY grindhouse screen The Nickel in Farringdon with me on Jun 19th! It’s a screening of THE LANDLORD (1970) plus I’ll being doing a talk about how it relates to the themes of mah book, SCREEN DEEP. Tix at thenickel.co.uk

Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was removed from the Senate after confronting lawmakers over US support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza.

The 'Sex Work in Cinema' episode of Screen Shot with @kermodemovie.bsky.social and @ellenejones.bsky.social is a really good example of why this has rapidly become one of my favourite podcasts / radio shows podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

I'm overdue a catch up...been busy doing lots of stuff including this episode of #Screenshot on doppelgangers and clones. Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...