This week's University Challenge had a question about Monkey Island. Peak TV.

“Superb...a marvel” ★★★★★ – The Irish Times ON FALLING is cinemas from Friday. Visit conic.film/onfalling for screening information.

Okay so The Brutalist is brilliant and I love it, BUT if Brady Corbet wins a Best Director Oscar while Paul Thomas Anderson still doesn't have a Best Director Oscar - well, that's just stupid.

Going for a second watch of The Brutalist in 70mm!

Calling all folk-horror fanatics! Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest is an atmospheric adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel about a rural Scottish village on the brink of irrevocable change. Join us on 2 March for a Q&A with Athina Rachel Tsangari! loom.ly/Mifzw4s 🎟️

ON FALLING the new film from the Ken Loach & Sixteen Films team Out in Cinemas March 7th (early tickets here: conic.film/films/onfalling) The film is about precarity, exploitation and loneliness in the modern world. Please share and help us get the word out.

Cinema three may have no seats, but we do have JOBS JOBS JOBS! Finance Manager, Programme Manager and Marketing Manager roles all live now: filmhouse.org.uk/jobs

Just announced 📢 In collaboration w/ @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social, we're bringing you a season celebrating the work of Derek Jarman, one of the most original filmmakers of the past 50 years 🎫http://bit.ly/GFT_DerekJarman Visit The Hunterian before 4 May for an exhibition focused on Jarman’s work

Just finished this excellent book by Nick Pinkerton, it's exemplary long-form film criticism. A great mix of scholarship, close observation, insightful interpretation, personal opinion and cultural context - it hugely enriched my experience of watching the film.

@alhunterfilm.bsky.social hi Allan! Welcome to this place, unlike any other social media network, and yet exactly the same.

Walter Salles' excellent (and triple Oscar-nominated) new film I'm Still Here opens this Friday at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social, a week ahead of it's general release. I wrote a bit about what's so great about it, and why you should catch it early at GFT: www.glasgowfilm.org/in-praise-of...

Mike Leigh was on brilliant form for his Q&A with us at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social last night. What a legend - excellent to hear his next film is already in the works. HARD TRUTHS is essential viewing, another Leigh masterpiece.

The #teamdeakins interview with Mohammad Rasoulof is so brilliant. Highly recommend listening to be inspired by this incredible and seemingly fearless filmmaker. teamdeakins.libsyn.com/mohammad-ras...

Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Twin Peaks Wild at Heart Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Lost Highway The Straight Story Mulholland Drive Inland Empire Twin Peaks: The Return What a legacy. Can even believe we’re writing this, but… David Lynch - RIP

I recently got the third volume of Roger Ebert's The Great Movies - I love this from his introduction

I feel bad for the people who keep voting Best Film for Emilia Perez and A Complete Unknown - they clearly didn't watch many good films in 2024!

What's you favourite movie soundtrack and score to listen to? Lost in Translation is my go to soundtrack - such perfect mood curation - while for score I just can't get over If Beale Street Could Talk.

I spoke to Tom Shone a few months back about Letterboxd and indie cinemas, and it's turned up in this great piece he's done - well worth a read: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

Here my fave 10 films of the year - going by UK release dates. Notes and thoughts here: boxd.it/B9ll2

Train journey consequences

✨As we come to the end of the year, we look back at some of our fav film restorations this year, particularly those that we caught on the big screen at UK cinemas and festivals via @letterboxd.social boxd.it/B4q8s What about your highlights? ✨

This is a lovely interview with Andrew Scott, marking All of Us Strangers as Guardian's number one film of the year. Good choice! www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

Which is the lesser of two evils? The disruption to Sauchiehall St due to it having been dug up for the past few years, or the return of the awful buskers the moment that the barriers have come down? It's a tough call.

Just watched Rebel Ridge, great film, brilliant performance by Aaron Pierre. But man, it's indicative of how little Netflix's decision-makers care about what makes a good cinema experience that they didn't release Rebel Ridge in cinemas, and yet they did give a release to The Piano Lesson.

One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:

What has happened to a UK release for Paul Schrader's Oh Canada? Its really odd that it doesn't even seem to have a UK distributor yet. It's good - better than Master Gardener! Someone get it out here in 2025 please.

Big GFF25 news! 🚨 Our beloved special event screenings return with the classic Australian rom-com Muriel’s Wedding (1994), the millennial favourite Coyote Ugly (2000) and 1990s teen horror The Craft (1996)! Tickets will be on sale Monday 16 December at 12pm. 🎫

Following the final screening in our epic Scorsese season (31 months long!) we've announced the follow-up - kicking off at #GFF25 with a 25th Anniversary screening of O Brother, Where Art Thou - Coen Brothers of the Month begins at @glasgowfilm in March. glasgowfilmfest.org/gff25-countr...

Is Willem Dafoe ever not working? I'm worried he never finds time to spend with his son Caleb Landry Jones.

This connects with a great quote I love by Flannery O'Connor: "A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is."

Wonderful to have you guys back! I wasn't able to be there but heard from David that it was a really ace Q&A. Thanks for bringing it to us!

This is a great set of winners - Sing Sing deserves all the praise it has got, and undoubtedly will continue to get, but also lovely to see recognition for A Different Man and His Three Daughters, two of the best of the year and perhaps relatively underseen? www.screendaily.com/news/a24-shi...

Sometimes the BBFC just nails it

Watched Anora again, after seeing it and loving it back in May. I've heard a lot of varied takes on it since then, but a second look confirms Baker doesn't put a foot wrong. It's giddy and irresistible and abrasive and wild, and yet always totally focused in its purpose and meaning.

Italian mountain-set movies - is there anything better? Just watched and loved Vermiglio

Work buddy/annoyer

After 31 screenings over 2 and a half years we're concluding Scorsese of the Month at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social with a screening of Who's That Knocking at My Door. www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/whos-t...