Devastating film. Michael B Jordan is so good in this but matched by a rarely better Octavia Spencer. A lovely character study made unbearably tense by the foreshadowing of tragedy.

Tonight’s film

Actually the first track haha

Haha. The second track is basically a song about being glad you’re not on the boats.

Give it another spin. It’s great. The inner record sleeve is a print of Scottish fishing charts which gives a nice flavour for the record’s themes.

Bought this on record shop day and it’s got to be one of the most beautiful albums ever made.

Feeling so cheerful this morning I just laughed at a Barney Ronay column in the Guardian.

Nick Offerman Visits Criterion Closet To Rebuild Shelves NEW YORK—In an eight-hour-long video posted Tuesday to the Criterion Collection’s YouTube channel, actor Nick Offerman can be seen paying a visit to the Criterion Closet to rebuild the film library’s ...

“Don’t tell me you’ve been using particle board in here,” said the 55-year-old woodworker

As an aside, why are the Edinburgh filmhouse audiences worse than cineworld or vue ones. As soon as the film started people started moving about, guy next to me checked his phone. Shout out to the regular multiplex audience. In my experience they are better behaved than middle class arthouse ones!

I liked the little linking devices - the phrases, the drinks, the clothes, the skateboarders. It suggested a world filled with people donning disguises and performing roles, trying to connect and often failing. It saved the warmest and most Jarmusch for last: I could have spent more time in Paris!

I really liked this. It takes a beat to get back into that flat, atonal style, and it would be easy to dismiss the film as something of a trifle. But it works on you through both the accuracy of its observation, its humour, and its warm heart.

We all love that Neil Young soundtrack more than anything else in Dead Man, though!

I’m almost sure I will. I’ve liked all Jarmusch’s films to some extent (although not seen his most divisive Limits Of Control). I hope this is more Paterson than Dead Man though!

Going to see this tonight and very much looking forward to it.

I gave it 4 good stars! 😂

Let’s see which side of the fence I fall!

Booked to see the new one Thursday night. Looking forward to it.

Going to spend Monday night with this book:

That is mad. Bluesky loves the combo of actor and political opinion. I see Gavin Newsom has come into the convo.

Oh is that’s what’s happened? Amazing.

Henry Ford is probably more right wing than Henry Fonda. Haha

Seems like a decent broad to me but, hey, what do I know?! Haha

But is she *really* wicked?

Now watching

Tonight’s film

Yeah there was something slightly inert about it which was weird because it was well directed and acted.

Had that claustrophobia you get in excessively stagey adaptations. Handsome, and Thompson is great, but this slightly missed the mark.

Tonight’s film

Simple minded, a bit batshit and really a lot of fun. I laughed a lot, it looked great and I think the critics are being ridiculously serious minded about a film that is only tangentially connected to the source novel. The best of Emerald Fennel’s films.

Off to get my own hot take on this (belatedly)