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24th-billed in Radu Jude's DRACULA (2025). now: Hard Times (Dickens 1854) last: Sing Backwards and Weep (Lanegan 2020) (9)

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 2h

BBC1 9.30pm!

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 2h

the British TV watershed is hilarious. Careful avoidance of anything too "hard" until 9pm.... then BLAM! anything goes.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3h

"The original cut of Annie Hall ran nearly two-and-a-half hours, and according to its editor Ralph Rosenblum was a shapeless mass of bits. "And so we began cutting in the direction of that relationship,” he wrote. Result: 4 Oscars. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3h

p.s. check out the audio-samples from "La spada normanna" (English dub) in this 90s classic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZ-...

The Fall - Ivanhoes Two Pence

YouTube video by DuncanM

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3h

Pimple's THE WHIP is one of the greatest horse-racing films ever made. Certainly the weirdest and (still) funniest.

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 4h

'Giant Andean Condor Can Fly Without Flapping Its Wings for Over 5 Hours'

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 15h

possibly no more "Saturday night" way to start a Saturday night than by seeing ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK from a slightly beaten-up 35mm print at a sold-out screening, surrounded a receptive crowd, slap bang in the middle of a big city.
(i.e. 6pm yesterday at @filmmuseum.bsky.social, Vienna.)

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 1d

"As of July 2024, the Co-operative Party was the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons, with 43 Members of Parliament. As all of its MPs sit with the Parliamentary Labour Party, this distinction is seldom made."

??!!

Prof Colin Talbot @colintalbot.bsky.social · 1d

Personal news: I’m now Chair of Luton & Beds branch of the Co-operative Party.

Given how invisible the Party, and Co-ops in general, are, it’s going to be interesting to see if we can generate more engagement? Our Beds PCC, John Tizard, is a member. But not our 5 Beds Labour MPs.

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 3d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

a still from TRON (1982)

a still from TRON (1982)

a still from TRON (1982)

Still from TRON (1982

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai and Hungarian film director Béla Tarr

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

calling it now: the 2026 Literature Nobel will go to Alexis Wright, from Australia
(or perhaps Cristina Rivera Garza, from Mexico.)

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

my response when discovering in 2020 that famed actress Gong Li (family-name Gong, first-name Li) had wed Jean-Michel Jarre:
"Marry in haste, repent as Li Jarre."

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

Fleur Jaeggy: swan fan.

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

Fleur Jaeggy has just popped up in the bookies' top dozen candidates for the Nobel Literature prize, announced this afternoon.
85yo Italophone Swiss, widow of Calasso, pal of Bachmann.
"Her work sees little point in exploring happiness, productivity, or self-understanding. Her focus is the void."
😮

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 3d

living individuals who'd have the 'Nobel Prize in Cinema'?
Böttcher, 94
Cavalier, 91
Dardenne/Dardenne, 71/74
Denis, 79
Gogoberidze, 96
Guerra, 94
Haneke, 83
Hou, 78
Kluge, 93
Loach, 89
Mészáros, 94
Miyazaki, 84
Obomsawin, 93
Panahi, 65
Portabella, 98
Sissako, 63
Sokurov, 74
Wiseman, 95
Zanussi, 86

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 4d

"i think im beginning to realize that i am just obsessed with benicio."
Charli xcx, a woman of taste.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 4d

Most historians would point out that the problem with Weimar Germany wasn’t an overabundance of anti-fascists.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 4d

following the deaths of Mark E Smith (2017) and MF DOOM (2020) the "greatest" now is probably 40yo Stromae (who writes only in French). 👇.
my favourite? probably Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (English) or Mahmood (Italian), with Joost Klein (mainly Dutch) not far behind.

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 4d

saw John Carpenter's THE WARD (2010) for first time in cinema this evening at @filmmuseum.bsky.social, Vienna (35mm). As it's likely to prove his final film, I wondered who the final credited acter would turn out to be. And, gorblimey moses, it's...

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 4d

the late money says it's Ghosh. We'll find out tomorrow!

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 4d

my final Nobel Literature 2025 quadrifecta (ahead of the announcement tomorrow)
1. Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania) 69
2. Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain) 77
3. Amitav Ghosh (India) 69
4. László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) 71

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 5d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 5d

the epigraph of Pynchon's SHADOW TICKET.
note the all-majuscule for BELA LUGOSI!