8 photos of the same woman in various poses

Contact sheet of Billie Holiday recording the album Music for Touching
Phil Stern, 1955

BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Boxing Ellen and Mark explore cinema's most heavyweight genre, 50 years on from Rocky.

Haven't been crossposting to Bluesky as much lately, but wanted to drop by to share my chat with @kermodemovie.bsky.social for BBC Screenshot on my pet obsession: boxing & its cinematic depiction. Delighted as ever to be a guest on the show.

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Pressed play on Fringe mid-scene and mid-sentence to discover Lance Reddick, sitting in a diner with Anna Torv, saying “shapeshifting soldiers from another universe stealing frozen heads.” Do yourselves a favour and watch this gloriously ridiculous show, it’s on ITVX.

This sounds right up my street. Loved Free Solo.

The Dark Wizard | HBO | Trailer YouTube video by HBO

Whenever you watch a documentary about someone who died too young there's a tendency for their friends to paint a more favourable portrait of them. Not so the friends of American free climber Dean Potter. "He was an asshole". youtu.be/h7gTjnio7oQ?...

Ah yes, the women genre (I won't name and shame because he threw in a Bernard Hermann album for a quid).

A handsome male tabby simultaneously basking in the sun AND looking judgemental.

Let the judgement commence.

A handsome male tabby basking in warm afternoon sunshine.

Mrs Chippy the Magnificent!

A teenage/20something girl in vaguely 80s clothing smoking a cigarette. She has knee high boots and fishnet tights. She has plaits and earrings. She's saying, "Aslan...? Haven't heard THAT name in a while" and is labelled SUSAN PEVENSIE: Narnia's Final Girl

Found this doodle, no memory of what prompted it. Possibly an internet chat.

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl Endangered species are making their home in a massive wild zone around the derelict Chernobyl nuclear plant.

"The zone has undoubtedly been shaped by radiation but also, crucially, by abandonment and time. As a consequence, the usual ecological rules no longer apply and this has meant Chernobyl now has some remarkable wildlife." theconversation.com/40-years-on-...

Barn cat in bed

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Ugh.

All the wrong people die or get sacked.

4 Screenshots from the movie "The Fog" (1980): First, an older man in a sailor's cap sits by a campfire on a beach at night, telling a story to children seated around the fire; subtitle reads, "One hundred years ago, on the 21st of April...". Second, the same scene continues with the fire casting dramatic shadows on the storyteller’s face and subtitle reads, "out on the waters around Spivey Point...". Third, the fire burns brightly in the center as the man gestures while speaking; subtitle reads, "a small clipper ship drew toward land." Fourth, a close-up of the man’s face illuminated by the firelight as he stares intensely; subtitle reads, "Suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in."

Apr 21st 1880 - On this foggy night the Elizabeth Dane steered off course and crashed into rocks. 100 years later the crew returned.

📽️📅 The Fog (1980)

Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Dean Martin on the set of The Young Lions (1958) 🦁

First aid gear badly crushed.

Had a dream that Bill Murray had found out a way to predict the future by something called a Sex Ladder where he watched people have sex on a ladder. However it was later discovered that it was merely an elaborate ruse to allow him to watch people have sex on a ladder. 1/2

Sign in my local park saying feeding the birds is forbidden, and bread makes birds sick. With infograms of someone feeding a bird, and a sick bird lying next to a loaf of bread. Sliced by the looks of it.

Poor little ziek vogel!

I’ll never forget the hour I made it my job to stand in front of the guy wearing google glasses at a kids water park and refused to take them off. I dont care if you say youve got kids there. I did too and didnt want some rando videoing them. Also he looked like a twat

Interior magazine artwork (from Omni, December 1982) for Ian Watson's 'Returning Home'

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1985. ‘White Socks’ by Ian Watson

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1987. ‘Salvage Rights’ by Ian Watson

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1988. ‘The Mole Field’ by Ian Watson

Ian Watson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/watson... who sadly died a week ago, was born on this day; here's magazine artwork for some of his stories 1982-88: 'Returning Home' ‘White Socks’ ‘Salvage Rights' & ‘The Mole Field’ (Artist: Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, RJ Krupowicz, David A Hardy & Stephen Gervais):

Orange cat making biscuits

Biscuits

Grey cat on bag of shavings

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Don't miss your chance to see the #1 film on the Letterboxd Top 500 Narrative Feature Films, as Masaki Kobayashi's HARAKIRI returns to our biggest screen on Monday 27th April. The film is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made! 🎟️ buff.ly/kchNMm3

Is Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike’s new gender swap comedy inspired by The Two Ronnies? Long-running 80s sketch The Worm That Turned imagined a dystopian world run by women, inspired by the election of Margaret Thatcher. It has not aged well – yet it bears similarities to a brand-new mov...

Not so much for the article but for the (much appreciated) link to Éléonore Pourriat's terrific 10-minute short film Majorité Opprimée (Oppressed Majority), which is in French with English subs.

Looking right at you: a goat (possibly demonic). With a kid (non-demonic). By today's artist, Jacob Cuyp of Dordrecht. Portrait specialist & father of Aelbert Cuyp.

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

Six years ago today.

Idiot.

The start of a review of Happy Land (1943): OK, I genuinely misheard, and thought, for a few minutes, that the main character was being visited by the spirit of General Grant. I was like, “This is fucking bananas." Turns out that Don Ameche was saying "Gramp", and the ghost's Civil War hat was just an acknowledgment of earlier conflicts that had visited the central family. Now that we all know I'm stupid, I'll get on with reviewing the film.

A confession:

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp of Dordrecht. Painter of portraits, animal and human. Here, his own jolly twin daughters, in their little chairs & holding their teethers.

3 Screenshots from the movie "Scarface" (1983): First, a bearded man in military attire passionately speaks into multiple microphones at night, with the subtitle reading, "We don't want them! We don't need them!" Second, a crowded boat named "Ocean Clipper" is packed with people, pulling into a harbor under daylight. Third, a man in a floral shirt with a scarred face sits slumped in a chair, while another man in a suit presses against his face to show his scar.

Apr 20th 1980 - The Castro regime announced that any Cubans wanting to emigrate to the US were free to board boats at Mariel, west of Havana. The next day 125,000 Cubans arrived in Florida.

📽️📅 Scarface (1983)