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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 2d

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 2d

Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...

Monday anthem just dropped 🎶 #oldhollywood #harrybelafonte #filmtok

TikTok video by Turner Classic Movies

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 2d

we're surrounded by media all the time.
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 2d

Still are massively hostile, I'd say - it hasn't shifted, just expanded. We are the OG Mickey Mousers

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 2d

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.

Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Contrasting headlines

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Christopher Anstey @chrisanstey74.bsky.social · 6d

Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.

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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 6d

#TOTP

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 6d

Ahem, Diana Dors, if you please...

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely delighted with this chat I had with @gracedent.bsky.social about Bagpuss. It took us both back to early childhood and I had no idea it was going to get so deep and profound. A truly great show and a great person to talk about it with.

timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 9d

what a great bit of programming! a nicely mixed bill

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 9d

@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich has always been cool for film.

Cinema listings poster:

NORFOLK & NORWICH
FILM THEATRE LTD.
NOVERRE CINEMA
ASSEMBLY HOUSE NORWICH Tel: 26402

'AKENFIELD"
with introduction by Ronald Blythe
Author of Akenfield
MAY 19 8PM
Peter Halls
'AKRENFIELD,
MAY 20-24
5.45 and
8.15

*Children's Matinee*
LIONEL JEFFRIES
"The Amazing Mr Blunden’ U
MAY 24 at 2.30 pm

Modern German Cinema Season
'Aguirre, Wrath of God' A
Director: Werner Herzog
JUNE 16
JUNE 17
JUNE 18

Modern German Cinema Season
"Fear eats the Soul’ AA
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
JUNE 19
JUNE 20
JUNE 21

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9d

Miriam Kent joins me for a chat about Black Widow, a fun yet thought-provokingly challenging movie that was dogged by delays caused by everything from lockdown to boardroom politics and tedious men crying about 'woke', and has since been almost forgotten...

timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Black Widow With Miriam Kent

Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her ‘eating stale biscuits’ conditioning in Black Widow.

timworthington.org

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 9d

@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich has always been cool for film.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9d

So come on, did anyone else - apart from @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social - try to bounce off the sofa cushions in a bid to emulate the opening titles of Jamie And The Magic Torch?

timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday to one of the greatest series and *the* greatest title sequence.

BBC Arena - Opening Titles

YouTube video by spikeyroberto

youtu.be

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 9d

With @janehill.bsky.social on Blue Peter, @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social on Jamie And The Magic Torch, @mrphilnorman.bsky.social on Pipkins, @unamccormack.bsky.social on The Children Of Green Knowe and @gracedent.bsky.social on Bagpuss.

timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...

The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “A Bloke And A Monkey Filming On A Bus, That’s A Usual Sort Of Thing”

Watch with Jane Hill on Blue Peter, Melanie Williams on Jamie And The Magic Torch, Phil Norman on Pipkins, Una McCormack on The Children Of Green Knowe and Grace Dent on Bagpuss.

timworthington.org

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Ben Turner @bturnerinfo.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow is the final SUPAKINO #bombaymix of the year. And it’s a corker!

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983)

SAT SEPT 27th 2025

www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 14d

Really looking (or 'leica-ing' - sorry 😞) forward to this photographic double bill this Saturday, programmed with panache by @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social

Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 17d

📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025

tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys

Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social

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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 17d

📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025

tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys

Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 18d

And a fine name it is too.

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 21d

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

A SmartViz monitoring device installed at a university.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 22d

OfS is a disgraceful regulator, actively hostile to the institutions over which it has jurisdiction. It wields its blunt instrument, "TEF", as though at an amateur broadsword contest.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22d

'Based on the outcomes of this super-TEF and prioritised based on assessment of risk, OfS will make interventions (including controls on recruitment and the conditions of degree awarding powers) and targeted investigation. This is a first stage consultation only, stage two will come in August 2026.'

TEF6: the incredible machine takes over quality assurance regulation

There's something for everyone in the latest rethink of the Teaching Excellence Framework, but - as David Kernohan suggests - bringing disparate approaches together can highlight fundamental weaknesse...

wonkhe.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22d

'Based on the outcomes of this super-TEF and prioritised based on assessment of risk, OfS will make interventions (including controls on recruitment and the conditions of degree awarding powers) and targeted investigation. This is a first stage consultation only, stage two will come in August 2026.'

TEF6: the incredible machine takes over quality assurance regulation

There's something for everyone in the latest rethink of the Teaching Excellence Framework, but - as David Kernohan suggests - bringing disparate approaches together can highlight fundamental weaknesse...

wonkhe.com

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26d

It’s still shameful @salforduni.bsky.social

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · Sep 9

Shameful from @salforduni.bsky.social.

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 26d

Hearing I Feel Love on the waltzers at Hull Fair about 25 years ago is honestly one of the most transcendent experiences of my life!

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 27d

Tagged 4 days ago and still not a dickie bird from them. But if they think my query is just going to evaporate into thin air without a response, I'm afraid they've got another think coming

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · Sep 9

Shameful from @salforduni.bsky.social.

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 27d

I don’t wish to know how old any of them were here.

#totp

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 27d

We are beginning to hear from a number of #FilmNoir friends that actor Herbert Halbik; best known for playing little Hansel in Carol Reed’s classic #BritNoir The Third Man (1949), has passed away…

Halbik was the last surviving member of the cast.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 28d

If you can't handle me at my worst (eating a microwaved lasagne wearing just my pants) you don't deserve me at my best (same but with a hat on)

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yep, similar experience (with first one at least). Sorry to hear of a fellow sufferer, sending sympathetic solidarity

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