Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life

Robert Duvall had one of the most incredible film debuts ever as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it. If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around

I graduated from the same high school Robert Duvall did, or was expelled from for reasons none of our teachers would tell us even though we begged. If anyone knows please put me out of my misery Also once we knew that seeing Apocalypse Now in tenth grade English meant we watched it as documentary

I have considered a few minutes and now my life goal is to tell a dad joke so good that it features in a documentary

The host immediately says the bill will be handed to his dinner companion, an unsporting response

Dads! There's an exceptional dad joke in Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros: a diner is asked by the host if he has any allergies, and his eyes light up and he says, "Yes! I'm allergic to the bill"

I should add that Frederick Wiseman has a juicy little cameo as Jodie Foster's own therapist in PRIVATE LIFE

Truly no one has ever done a worse job of measuring their own audience in front of me, and considering how kind and thoughtful these documentaries are, a very sad surprise

The second documentary begins with a woman on an ambulance trolley whose teeth have been punched through her face. So you can imagine when Mr Wiseman came into the room to discuss how some of the cases of stalking and abuse he filmed were actually pretty funny how it went over like a lead balloon

There's a Frederick Wiseman season upcoming at the ICA which means I get to repeat my story of doing a double bill at the LFF of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE II. Me and maybe twenty social workers who sat through six hours of misery, despair and people perjuring themselves

I also like how this ten screen cinema has a twisty slide that goes from the top to the bottom floor. It is also, even more intelligently, not adult size

Pleased it took till my 18th or 19th press screening this festival (I have lost count, due to the delirium) for someone to hold up their phone on full brightness so we could all watch them scroll Instagram. We're being pretty professional this year!

One month out from Wuthering Heights is plenty of time to get this necklace delivered www.sugarandvicedesigns.com/collections/...

What Epstein reveals is the ubiquitous sexual abuse of women & girls as a way for men to cement their friendships and demonstrate their status. It happens among billionaires, it happens among frat boys, it happens among preachers and tech workers and union contractors, because it happens among men.

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

Just seen my favourite of the festival so far and I'm delighted at last to have seen something that unpredictably thoughtful

It's so nice to be somewhere with real winter for a change. Living in London you do get to miss snow

An increasingly strong pet peeve of mine is art about daddy issues in which the mommy doesn't feature at all. Like if daddy was so awful who did the laundry? Who cooked your dinner and brushed your hair? Show me one supportive smiling lady in an apron and I'll drop it but again and again no

Quite apart from the panelists’ un evidenced views that AI controlled cars will reduce congestion and support growth by “reducing the burden of employment red tape”. Small nod to the impact on cabbies’ and private hire drivers’ jobs and a simplistic expectation that driverless cars are safer. 😬

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

NOPE. NOT HAPPENING. This shit & those period tracking apps are all part of the same dystopian, predatory market that sells personal data to the highest bidder & makes it available to psychos who only see people - especially women - as tools. Don't let them fool you.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Honestly this is so depressing. Such incredibly important assets, such parts of maintaining the world's access to information and reasonably accurate news, such as mechanism of British soft power and an illustration of values we claim to hold dear, even more important today since the US backed away.

Just seen a movie that commits two cardinal sins: it discards its title character, and it makes unprovable assumptions about the sexuality of the main ones. Oh man I have to calm down before writing my review because I'll be loaded for bear

I know that as soon as I dig my scarf from my bag the outdoor queue I am in will start to move so I'm excited to see who will blink first in this game of chicken

My theory that filming in black and white blurs everything confirmed by coming out of a movie set in the 1700s (if the clothes and homes weren't clear, the flintlock pistol ought to have been) only to hear the people behind me discuss it being set in the 1910s thanks to a mention of the great war

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

I hope the guy on the train last night who kept anxiously adjusting the single rose wrapped in cellophane he was carrying had a wonderful Valentine's day

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

if you’re seeing this it was meant to find you today

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends. www.404media.co/serve-food-d...

Seeing one article about grey divorce provides the tangential excuse to tell you all a joke! A couple in their nineties walk into a lawyer's office. He asks why they're there and they say, "We want a divorce." The lawyer is astonished. "But you've been married 70 years! Why get a divorce now?"

This is the best radioactive hybrid terror pig pun a person could hope to make and since I made it I demand you all enjoy it

Wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day with a Greta Garbo card. 💘

Spending an ideal Valentine's Day evening: at a screening of a remastered film about the New Jersey boardwalk in a museum where I had to walk under an old prop light sign that said FREAK CITY

i have to wonder what kind of future AI hypebeasts are imagining when they say stupid shit like, "most or all of white collar tasks will be automated within 18 months". like, okay, microsoft, then who are your customers? who is purchasing O365 subscriptions when robots are doing all the work?

In honour of the great Jonathan Main ❤️

Feed: "Entertainment – Metro" By: Emily Bashforth on Friday, February 13, 2026

My London friends I need your help!!! I was quoted praising Wuthering Heights in the Metro today; if you have a copy please (please please please please please) save it for me! metro.co.uk/2026/02/13/m...

I'm not a movie person either, but I trust Sarah, and she says it's a banger bsky.app/profile/cair...

Woman on the train in witch hat klaxon

Out in the US in April! AMRUM 📽️ is about one little boy reckoning with what it means to be the non-Nazi child of Nazi parents and I suspect it might feel even more impactful now than when I saw it last year for some reason

Head-On (Gegen die Wand) is one of those movies that pulls off a twist so shocking you spend the rest of your movie in that shock, as things spiral out in ways absolutely unforeseen, and the fact it locks eyes with the abyss without falling in is extraordinarily rare. I love it so much