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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 13h

😆 my first thought there was, maybe they wanted to get away from it all, but if that Ireland tour doc is anything to go by they'd have been mobbed on sight anywhere. Fans were *scary* in them days

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 14h

When they were in school, Genesis P-Orridge met the Rolling Stones. About Brian, they say, “He seemed completely separate from the other people in the room, the whole time. Like a phantom, as if he was not real.” Their song about Brian, Godstar, is really lovely

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sKy...

Psychic TV Godstar Tube

YouTube video by Michael Baxter

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 16h

Backstage, or in hotels rooms, or on trains, Keith is always either strumming a guitar, sitting at the piano, or singing. He can’t stop doing music. Brian seems to avoid the camera, but there are some short interview clips. He has a wonderful, relaxed English voice. I’d listen to him tell stories

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 16h

The Stones sound AMAZING here. The crowd is very noisy. It's shot in a kinetic way at close quarters, and the editing is dazzlingly chaotic. You do almost feel like you’re there. This show ended in a terrifying stage invasion where it looked like the boys would be pulled apart for saintly relics

Keith, Mick, and Brian lined up onstage, all looking lively. Out front there is an equally lively looking crowd

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 16h

Charlie is my Darling (1966). A document of the Rolling Stones tour of Ireland in 1965. The Stones in 1965 were beautiful weren’t they? Golden. That was when Mick wasn’t a cartoon character; when Keith looked about fourteen; when they still had Brian ❤️

Poster for Charlie is my Darling. The five Stones sitting in a row on a long bus seat

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Bit more Tom Waits love. I saw Cold Feet when it came out and only remember two scenes. Tom doing sit-ups hanging out the window of a speeding car, and Tom walking into a shitkicker bar and yelling YEEEHAAAW. It's a brilliant psycho turn, love to see it again

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Me too, just once, London on the Frank's Wild Years tour. I forked out for a front row seat and it was the best money I ever spent. Umforgettable

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, nice one, thanks John!

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

I've got his book The Hell-Fire Clubs. A scorching read, but thorough and scholarly

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, there is that

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

I never really picked up on anything very political in it. I'm intrigued though...

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

What a scene. What film!

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

My God, I am older than phwoar!

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

This is true. It's easy for someone like me to forget that most people are just not political, and a lot of people take no interest in it at all. When I look at polls I always think, who are these people who "don't know"? But there's a lot of them

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Rossellini shows as little sympathy for the latter as for the former. The old man who personifies the moderate German is self-pitying, helpless, annoying, hardly even worth anyone’s contempt. He couldn’t or didn’t stand up, and now he is sorry. This message hit me quite hard in 2025

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

But the difference in Berlin is the postwar shame, which is of two kinds: There is the humiliation of defeat, felt by the unrepentant Nazi; and there is the guilt of the moderate German, who regrets not doing more to prevent fascism dominating his country and bringing it to ruin

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Germany, Year Zero (1947). Striking that Rossellini went to Germany for the third film in his war trilogy. The defeated city of Berlin is the same in many ways as the liberated city of Rome depicted in chapter 3 of Paisan: rubble-strewn, degraded, full of women whose only currency is their bodies

Poster for Germany, Year Zero, with the German title Germania anno zero. The face of a young boy and the figure of a young girl against a background of a bomb-damaged street

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. The was right on target in that respect

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 2d

When I rewatched this recently I felt the same. It's an astounding and fearless turn from Swanson. It should have made her one of the biggest stars of the 50s

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed. Didn't you watch Secret Ceremony recently? Incredible work, a big fave of mine

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I noticed that in the credits. Fellini is another shameful gap in my knowledge so I don't know how it compares to his own work

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 3d

Year Zero is up soon, really looking forward to it. I'm glad you gave me the nudge to watch these, that DVD of Open City had been gathering dust for years!

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 3d

This has been on my list for a while; I didn't realise it was actually Italian! I love that period of Liz Taylor's work, she made so many interesting choices

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I've been fighting a bit shy of Antonioni because I haven't really liked his English language films. But I haven't seen his Italian ones and I will definitely give that trilogy a go!

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Chris, some tasty looking ones there. Think I will do three Pasolini, three Visconti and take it from there #manwithaplan

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