#letterboxdfriday #filmsky #lastfourwatched

J Robert Lennon on Elmore Leonard is a good read:

A tune a day 19. Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSVv...

RIP Claudia Cardinale. One of the great beauties of European cinema and the talent to match. A fistful of classic movies: ROCCO & HIS BROTHERS, THE LEOPARD, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, FITZCARRALDO. Few actresses have ever made emotional devastation so good to look at.

Holy cow the line-up of artists in Batman issue 400 is incredible: Lightle, Perez, Sienkiewicz, Art Adams, Joe Kubert, Leonardi, Bolland. It’s in the ‘80s reprint DC Finest: Red Skies. Hairy Chested Love God Batman, to quote Grant Morrison, is my favourite Batman.

A tune a day 18. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4K7...

Blackadder Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Action! The Simpsons The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Spaced The Inbetweeners Friends Nathan Barley Archer

A tune a day 17. Radiohead - Spectre www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLiD...

#LetterboxdFriday #filmsky #LastFourWatched

RIP Robert Redford; one of the great leading men. Charm, intelligence, beauty. Some sensational roles in his long career that crossed eras. Pretty good director too - QUIZ SHOW is my favourite of his joints. But his golden run as an actor in the ‘70s combined quality with populism: not easily done.

A tune a day 16. Laura Nyro -You Don't Love Me When I Cry www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPEN...

I could not afford this when it was originally released because those big format issues were damn expensive for 16 year old me. I remember leafing through it in Forbidden Planet Dublin and wanting it so bad. I’d never seen anything like Darrow’s art before. Funniest thing Miller ever wrote?

A tune a day 15. Clannad (feat. Bono) - In a Lifetime www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSs...

A tune a day 14. Sex Bob-Omb - Garbage Truck www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Pp...

A tune a day 13. Super Furry Animals - Run! Christian! Run! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZV9...

Gil Kane, Blackmark:

A tune a day 12. Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH1S...

Kurosawa's RAN on 35mm at HomeMCR today. I think I last saw it on VHS when I was about 15. Probably Pan & Scan. This was...different. #filmsky

A tune a day 11. The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In the Rain youtu.be/2q5CGLHJ-54?...

Fraction & Jimenez’s Batman #1 has as much Miller Bats (both DKR & Y1) in its DNA as the “Blue” Bronze Age Batman I expected. It is Obvz tremendous. Fraction is as good a writer as anyone in mainstream comics & Jimenez combines beautiful lines & control of mood with ace storytelling.

A tune a day 10. McKay - Take Me Over www.youtube.com/watch?v=mruC...

#letterboxdfriday #LastFourWatched

A tune a day 10. The Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F youtu.be/WSVvMdfcp7I?...

A tune a day 9. Biz Markie - Just a Friend www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aof...

Guinness does not need any help mythologising and buffing its own brand heritage, but Netflix have given it a season-long advert anyway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mH3...

Titan’s Savage Sword of Conan is probably my favourite monthly comic and this oversized trade of the first three issues is just a beautiful thing.

A tune a day 8. Bob Seger - Night Moves youtu.be/_mRFWQoXq4c?...

A tune a day 7. The Originals - The Bells youtu.be/9lUFK4u6F9k?...

I’ve shown JAWS to hundreds of students over the years. The big boat/hole/head jump scare ALWAYS gets them. Took my 15 & 12 year olds to see it at the cinema today. Older one is a horror fan, never frightened of anything. Jumped out of his seat. Spielberg = a genius.

If he's not dead, the come-down on here will be shocking

Got a royalty statement from my (fiction) publisher. That was depressing. Buy my books! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BYBF2ZD...

A tune a day 6. Tindersticks - Chilitetime youtu.be/ABJVH7gvdZ8?...

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday

Both at the Tivoli Theatre Dublin, 1990s: Bill Hicks on his last tour (terminally ill but nobody knew) and Oasis, first tour. Evan Dando was following the band around and in the audience bouncing a ball and getting decked coz he came onto some Dublin hard man’s girlfriend.

A tune a day 5. Judee SIll - The Kiss youtu.be/kyPhvHEtRuw?...

A tune a day 4. Shack - Undecided youtu.be/VlNiSAoU-hE?...

This doesn't look like Stark's Parker but it does look like Shane Black, so I'm in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHAR...

Holy crap is Tomás Giorello an underrated Conan artist. His work on the Dark Horse King Conan (with Timothy Truman - also a great Conan artist - writing) is beautiful.

A tune a day 3. Brian Eno - The True Wheel youtu.be/p4atQSktICE?...

Some lovely Steve Rude art from the Kamandi Challenge. That book has a frankly ridiculous list of artists. Neal Adams, Walt Simonson, JLGL, Kevin Eastman, Ryan Sook, Ivan Reis plus covers by Jim Lee, Frank Miller, Bruce Timm, Sienkiewicz, Paul Pope, Gary Frank, Keith Giffen and Phillip Tan. Wowzers.

A tune a day 2. Ben E King - Supernatural Thing (Pts 1 & 2) youtu.be/P0Nle5fbNHU?...

Exquisite Dave Taylor page from a Fiends of the Eastern Front story.

A tune a day 1. Sweeney’s Men - Go By Brooks youtu.be/V0uJIkD1YV0?...

The worldless Taylor-Janin story in Detective Comics 1100 is pretty much perfect. Batman & pooches just works, in the right hands.

All the answers to this are interesting but I have no answer. It wasn't one film for me. It was the way movies infected me and became my thing (also books, comics, music but mainly movies). No one revelation but an ongoing process.

Michael Golden Batman splash. Wow. All drawn by hand. I've been drawing cityscapes, and they are ballbusters. Can't come close to this one.

I’ve always liked Howard Chaykin’s work. Same generation as Miler, Wagner, Simonson, Starlin, Griffen - a great era for writer-artists. Anyway, I don’t think I’d ever even seen this infamous title in a shop in the ‘80s-90s. Turns out it’s fantastic. Hilarious, horny, full of great storytelling.

Magnificent. @economist.com out-onioning @theonion.com.