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Mark Cousins

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Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/Bigger than The Shining http://www.markcousins.org

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 38m

The new film Plainclothes is very good I think. Almost like a melodrama, a Bette Davis film in a way - a letter at the centre of the story fuels it, disrupts.
Bit it's also so impressionistic, so much about looking, especially at the start. Very fragmented and real visual thinking

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 2d

Morning screening at the London Film Fest

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So pleased Tania

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So so sad

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 6d

25th year of the Belfast Film Festival coming soon. What a ride it's been. Brava/o to all involved.
Very pleased to have two films in it, one a secret:
(belfastfilmfestival.org/assets/uploa...

belfastfilmfestival.org

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 7d

oh what's this

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 7d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 10d

Am at the Portobello book festival today, talking - with others more eminent - about the great Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her epic series of galcier pictures.
1.30pm, library downstairs.
She's so inspiring
portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t...

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Dogwoof @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social · 13d

To celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re offering 25% off our Black History Month collection of DVDs/Blu-Rays on the Dogwoof Shop 💿 🛒

Use code BHM25 at checkout (valid until 31 Oct).
→ bit.ly/BHMDogwoofShop

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 13d

Great article
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 13d

So Jane Fonda relaunches The Committee for the First Ammendment, formed in 1947 to defend American against the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
At 87 she's still a leading light.

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 14d

Bye bye Amsterdam

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 14d

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 15d

Today, Delft, the streets of Vermeer

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 16d

Today

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 18d

Amsterdam tomorrow, to the great Eye cinema museum.
Part of their big Tilda Swinton exhibition

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 21d

Each time I met Cardinale, I wore a kilt. She liked men in kilts.

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 21d

I loved Claudia Cardinale. She was dazzling, vivacious

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 23d

A day in Toho heaven

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 25d

Sheffield walk

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 25d

Morning pre-dawn Sheffield. Just a few lights in hotel opposite me.
Wish one was blinking, like in a film noir

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 26d

Heading to Sheffield. Delighted to be asked to speak at the Cinema For All 100 years celebration!
cinemaforall.org.uk

Cinema For All - Supporting Community Cinemas

cinemaforall.org.uk

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 27d

Behold the free speecher, who sacks anyone who dissents.
Bravo UK's Channel 4 TV which exposed hours of his lies last night.
This is not democracy; the media need to boldly show why

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 29d

So much to protest against at the moment, so many people polticised for perhaps the first time.
So I'll recommend a book by my friend Dr Lynne Jones, child psychiatrist, WHO and UNICEF consultant.
It's about her decades of non-violent activism.
I met her during the siege of Sarajevo.
Inspiring.

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Cinematheque Francaise' beautiful new book on Orson Welles (in french only).
I've contributed a visual essay on his designs for Shakespeare films and plays - Chimes at Midnight, Macbeth, Othello etc
Honoured

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · Sep 14

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Robinson and Farage’s ‘civil war’ narrative is warping voters’ minds. How is any government supposed to counter it? | John Harris

Whatever the reality of Britain today, our social media feeds are full of anger, violence and disorder – and that’s the reality politicians must confront, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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