On Let's Talk with Giles Brown, after 10.00CET - @iannathan.bsky.social on 'Martin Scorsese: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)', and  @johnnicholraf.bsky.social with 'The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance'

Spent the day working through the assembly for The Thing Expanded with @iannathan.bsky.social - Terror is taking shape. @davidweiner.bsky.social @joshuahweiss.bsky.social @james-evans.bsky.social

Chuffed to bits to see Aliens Expanded receive a Best Documentary nomination at the Rondo Hatton awards. @iannathan.bsky.social Go team! #rondohattonawards rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...

Rondo-nominated masterpieces :) @davidweiner.bsky.social @iannathan.bsky.social

There will be countless tributes, and rightly so. But Hackman was about the work. So today, simply put on The French Connection, or The Conversation, or Unforgiven, or Superman, or The Royal Tenenbaums et al. Remind yourself what screen presence truly means.

Limited time deal on Amazon - down to £16.61. Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll. amzn.eu/d/dwlaAgc

Get back to work.

Is there a Carry-On discourse?

Bleasdale on Bleasdale. Understudy - moi.

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.

Public service announcement. If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!). #aliens #aliensexpanded

Your Christmas movie is sorted.

A great interview on why Spielberg is not quite the director we think he is. #Spielberg www.wpr.org/culture/stev...

What a pleasure, to wax lyrical about arguably Malick's most complete film and the lager context of the MCU (Malick's Cinematic Universe). BTW: John's new book is a marvel.

I am delighted to be talking all things Max with Iain Smith (producer of Fury Road) at tonight's special @TheActionFest screening of Mad Max 2 at the BFI Southbank. FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.

Alert: my Quentin Tarantino book is available in the #BlackFriday groove for only £11.20. Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy. www.amazon.co.uk/Quentin-Tara...

To me, the Indy films never fit the bill of blockbuster. They are too knowingly a pastiche, too gloriously enriched by tradition, and (in terms of the original trilogy), a love song to physical stunts. #Spielberg

I like many things about The Fabelmans, but it felt needless. Spielberg had poeticised his suburban childhood to immortal effect in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Don't wish away the potency of the fairy tale. #Spielberg

"So many entries in his storied canon are resident in my cerebral cortex like the replicant fail-safes of Blade Runner or Christopher Nolan’s implanted ideas in Inception." A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment. open.substack.com/pub/iannatha...

The start of something big. Spielberg's second and third feature films set the manifesto for the greatest career in postwar cinema. Genre infused with a sense of luminous mystery. #spielberg

Currently deep in production.

It’s on mornings like these, after a couple of cups of coffee, that I wonder whether Marty McFly was modelled on Marty Scorsese. They are both fixated with the past. Then I move on.

Book news. A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025. Without a doubt, our greatest living director. From Thames & Hudson.

New PODCAST first EPISODE The Malick Hour ep. 1. “Badlands” Tom Shone talks about Terrence Malick’s debut open.spotify.com/episode/1XWB...

Looking very handsome at the BFI bookshop.

Out now Almost without my knowing, this became the most personal thing I have ever written. I guess, these films just do that to you. #newbookrelease

"So many entries in his storied canon are resident in my cerebral cortex like the replicant fail-safes of Blade Runner or Christopher Nolan’s implanted ideas in Inception." A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment. open.substack.com/pub/iannatha...