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Anne Billson

@annebillson.bsky.social

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Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 2h

A rare sunny interval in (mostly) rainy Sitges. Yesterday it rained so much the streets turned to rivers.

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Fast Forward @fastforwardfilm.bsky.social · 2d

Fan van films met katten? Dan is The Cat Movie Archive zeker jouw ding: fastforwardfilm.be?p=49649

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Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social · 6h

Lazy, moi?

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 5h

😂😂😂

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 5h

"The most delicate thing was to speak Swedish with the southern accent and this is something that I had to learn." Denis Lavant = legend. Love the last line here.

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 5h

'I’m very happy to be trusted with characters of this calibre' - Denis Lavant on the art of constructing personas in Redoubt and The Stranger www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #LFF2025 #LFF #73SSIFF #FilmSky🎬

b&w shot of Denis Lavant as a man carrying scrap across a field in Redoubt

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2d

Choose your fighter.

DC Sandwich Guy throwing sandwich at officers

Chicago priest being assaulted by troops

Guy carrying American flag surrounded by gas.

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 6h

🧵on the lovely Jim, his musical taste and how he arrived in the Cox household:

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h

I don't like to brag but I do think our cat Jim is probably better at stretching than virtually any other cat in Britain.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 6h

Promo for Sitges Film Festival zombie walk: mad doctor revives the brain of Nostradamus to ask when the dead will walk the earth, and it replies Saturday. (I really rather fancy the mad doctor and his cool evil laugh, which is just as well as this clip is playing before every film at the festival.)

Spot Zombie Walk | Sitges 2025

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 17h

Jan Toorop, Prayer (colored and black crayon, pencil, and white chalk on paper, 1924)

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 10h

Sacrificing book space to make a cat nook.

An old Heals’ bookcase, with one shelf converted into a cat nook. A cat, a grumpy blue-grey Oriental, is distinctly visible.

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Parkin @parkinkatt.bsky.social · 17h

HELPSING HOOMAN WERK

Photo of a ginger and white cat sprawling across the lap and arm of a human in a blue sweater, sitting in an office chair.

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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 1d

#28: Priscilla

A screengrab of a headline to a Guardian Adrian Chiles column. It reads 'I met Priscilla Presley this week - and couldn't believe she was in the same building as me'

At first I thought it was a trick of the mind, another ruse by the building in which I had been imprisoned these long weeks…months…years…?—another attempt to addle my wits, turn me into one of those pitiful, loathsome Unmen who range the desolate landscape which surrounds The Old House, their brains destroyed, their bodies become little more than flesh-draped skeletons, lurching on unsteady feet as though strung like marionettes. But quickly I realised that the woman I saw, wandering distressed through the cavernous hallways, confused at finding herself untethered from her own reality, was as much a captive as I.
How Priscilla—for that was the name that she gave—came to be trapped here too, in this crumbling, shifting, ever-deceitful puzzle of a building, I could not fully discern, for her memories were as confused as my own. I asked her if she too had read that mysterious journal which I had found abandoned at the castle ruins, but she knew not of what I spoke. Instead her tale was one of ‘television studios’ and ‘PR junkets’ and other things beyond my ken. I began to surmise that this dreadful structure in which we were contained was not only at the nexus of other universes but also served as a waypoint for travellers through time. And another revelation came too—that the house was growing hungrier.

It has now been a week since myself and Priscilla joined forces to fortify the defences of this malevolent edifice. The keening of the Unmen has become only louder, and has been joined by another, more unsettling sound—the expectant gnashing of swinish teeth. I fear we have not yet seen the worst inhabitants of the boundless nightmare landscape beyond these walls and I shudder to think of what that means for maintaining our safety. All I know is that with the arrival of Priscilla—whose courage and resilience is both boundless and vitalizing—I have, for the first time in months, found a reason—even in the midst of this mind-bending terrror—to hope.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20h

Margaret of Austria. When older, she governed the Netherlands for many years, and was also a great collector and patron. Here portrayed at age 10 in 1490 by Jean Hey, whose day is today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Women messing with men's heads du jour: sly & sexy Judith happy with her prize. 1570, by Jan Massys. Today is his day

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 1d

How many women in the audiences for these gigs? He says he's cracking jokes at the expense of men and their reaction to women drivers, but how many women are actually hearing these jokes?

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 2d

Ganterie (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

A man cycles past a glove shop, which is closed because it's night, but its windows are lit up, as are the displays of gloves therein.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 2d

De Studio, home of De Cinema, where I saw PSYCHO (1960) last week.

The side of a building, at night, with a colourful neon sign saying DE STUDIO, plus posters. Lots of bicycles parked outside and in the foreground, people hanging around, and a food delivery person cycling past.

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 1d

#bestfilminlondontoday Oct 22 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. DIAL M FOR MURDER is one of the few movies enhanced in 3D. Rare chance to see Hithcock's film at Chiswick Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/10/capi...

Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 293: Wed Oct 22

Dial M For Murder (in 3D): (Hitchcock, 1953): Chiswick Cinema, 8.30pm The master director used 3-D in typically innovative fashion and the ...

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 2d

De Studio, home of De Cinema, where I saw PSYCHO (1960) last week.

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Ganterie (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

It's a dream I always have.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2d

My god the amount of time I waste trying to figure out if my new followers are human. Apologies to every handsome middle aged retired surgeon with a beard who loves his grandkids and God who I have ever blocked.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 2d

"a Marienbad-like labyrinth of winding corridors, false paths, hidden chambers and fragmentary narratives designed to entrap us in a web of confusion and contradiction": Dario Argento's Suspiria-sequel INFERNO (1980) screens 11.30pm tonight on @scream-tv.com UK projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/i...

Inferno (1980) - Projected Figures

Dario Argento's second instalment in his 'Three Mothers' trilogy, INFERNO, is either a deliciously surreal labyrinth, or a godawful mess.

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