Getting off a broken train in a heavy April shower, adults grumbling and sighing. I see a girl, 4 or 5, in a metallic rainbow coat and rose pink hat, stepping her tiny Timberlands in & out of the rain puddles with delighted fascination …
just read the brilliantly uncanny and funny first 2 pages to The Delusions, tired and standing up in Blackwell’s after a day’s research at the Bod and it was like being hosed with spring water laced with Juniper and MDMA… hope these choices can compete
I struggled on with E2 of Imperfect Women so you don’t have to undertake this corpse of a show. Yes,it gets more pointless after misapplying Byron’s She Walks in Beauty to a blonde. Elisabeth Moss should know better, but has form (shining girls). Is the script AI? Who knows or cares
The drama about The Drama has been a matter of unwise, grabby marketing. The Drama itself isn’t a romcom or a black comedy about shootings. It’s a conversation about the unspeakable, the unforgivable and the incomprehensible. It’s is a film trying to have a conversation
The Drama: can’t remember the last time I felt a cinema audience waiting until the credits to exhale like I did last night @phoenixphoxford
In 1849 Herman Melville left England from here with a copy of Frankenstein in his pocket; the result was a queer book about a monster of his own making
Storm Dave rattling the writing hut; online writing partner waiting to log into market town library to join our group writing sesh; sheep and their lambs in field next door taking warmth by huddling on a 30ft pile of manure. #rural #writing
happy birthday, legend!
Church bell tolling for a death through rural village air filled with birdsong and sunshine
Shout out to the protestor in a red Mercedes trying to stop a yew being cut down in the main road of the valley. Facing down the cops. Wes Anderson eco boss right there
open.substack.com/pub/somaghos... On mothering, the Bengali language, food, family, inheritance, love and loss - on my Substack, for Mother’s Day
Manifesting Rose Byrne winning in a dress made of doughnuts manifesting Rose Byrne winning in a dress made of doughnuts manifesting Rose Byrne winning in a dress made of donuts. #Oscars
We're excited to announce comedian Stewart Lee will be hosting our Q&A screening of The Memory Blocks with artist Andrew Kötting on Sat 28 March 18:00! www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13759/the-memory...
Heritage British Nature/nostalgic telly animals is the new white flag saying AI deserves to eat us. Still, at least they can’t misquote Austen (or can they?).
Another day at the rural cashpoint extracting a scanty tenner, another moment to deplore the misapplied Austen quote, 'I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!' When-oh-when will the Royal Mint understand that Miss Bingley's pretended interest is ironised by Austen, not celebrated?
There are few greater things, as someone who teaches in an art school, than saying to a student, 'Have you seen John Smith's film "The Girl Chewing Gum"?', and then sharing it with them if they haven't.
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of its first screening at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op.
this was a suave, vibrant piece by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social
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not easy - but embrace the will of the Lord and take to the skies, ace
excited for this book for all Spark fans. plus the threatening inflexible tea cosy
cannot wait for this film
well done Luke, not easy to get used to
where's a "this is a library, please be quiet" ancient, grubby photocopied sheet, when you need one?
Wuthering Heights casting director: "It's just a book"
Everyone who has read Wuthering Heights: "have you read it?"
Margot Robbie, on pitching to be Cathy: "..and so I threw my hat into the ring!"
Everyone who has read Wuthering Heights: "have you read it?"
Greene is also superb on how what is commonly called 'faith' or 'belief' is a living relationship, like falling personally in love with God : "I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love." #books #romance #literature #Theendoftheaffair
Friday #film fact. Dorothy Parker was also a script writer, her most lucrative job, co-writing with her beloved Alan Campbell (fellow addict & an actor). Paramount paid her $1000 & he $250 a week. Screenplays included Smash-Up & A Star is Born.
Santosh by Sandhya Suri with its superbly quiet storm of a central performance by Shahana Goswami is currently being highlighted by BFI Player. It’s poss THE film of 2024/5 to leave the biggest stain on my thoughts when I consider India and its cinema. Next to All We Imagine as Light ofc. Peak.
looks exciting
Rereading.Brilliant at twinning the obsessive writing process to the mystery of soul-consuming love. “So much of a novelist’s writing takes place in the unconscious … the last word is written before the first word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.”
Hate to be an identity zealot but does shade being thrown by establishment lit press at Ocean Vuong’s new book have to be quite so gleeful? These stumbles are to be expected when developing his kind of style. It’s at the v least unseemly, at worst smells of something other than pure critique