when she had her job at msnbc i was always frustrated because i could see her biting her tongue and then finally boiling over and they could not contain her, now that she is free and easy she is a lot more fun to watch. and i am "spicy" AF 🤍☪️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

9/3/93: Kieslowski's astonishing Blue, w/Juliette Binoche
Our feature on Blue, the 3 Colors & Mr. K via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
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BOTD Nicolas Roeg!! MCCT5: 5)Walkabout 4)Performance 3)Bad Timing 2)Man Who Fell to Earth 1)Don't Look Now
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David Stratton, Australia’s star TV critic of films, was already white-haired and grandfatherly when I met him in the 1990s. I broke bread with him often and he was great, encouraging, supportive company, full of tales of festivals in the 1960s laced with wicked humour. I already miss him. RIP

BOTD Peter Yates!! D key 60s/70s films incl Robbery, Bullitt, Friends of Eddie Coyle, more.
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Here's my slightly belated review of F1 The Movie for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social . www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Today my book on Michael Mann's film Heat is published. Anyone who loves it will find plenty to enjoy and argue with in this quick hit of a read. It's not just a fan's appreciation, but a probing critical study. My thanks to @rebbarden.bsky.social and the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social team.

Here’s my BFI tribute to the great documentarian Marcel Ophuls www.bfi.org.uk/features/mar...

This second edition of my BFI book on Heat is published 12th June is proofread and edited to a higher standard than the first; the stills are better quality and in an afterword I ponder changes in film reviewing fashions, Heat's continuing influence, the Heat 2 novel Mann is hoping to film and more.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Why is there a ‘but’ in this sentence?

Thankfully, he’s alive and released now.

I’m hearing that he’s ’probably dead’. I hope not.

Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal may be just one of tens of thousands of victims of Israeli state violence but his symbolic importance is huge. Please sign this petition. www.change.org/p/global-fil...

Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM

I was lucky to get this image on my iPhone yesterday while visiting @londonzoo.bsky.social with my granddaughter Alba.

This splendid edition also contains my review of Walter Salles's excellent film I'm Still Here, starring the phenomenal Fernanda Torres.

When I joined this platform 2 months ago I anticipated some of the political pain Americans would go through (and yes, some is coming the UK’s way soon, I’m sure) but the flow of alarm and numb despair at so much wilful destruction here is truly hard to witness. I wish you all strength.

Londoners and visitors, please sign the petition.

This new 'bookazine' from @sightsoundmag.bsky.social is an unmissable goldmine for Akerman fans. Among many treats it contains my 2001 interview with her for La Captive, in which she was on brilliant, incisive form.

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

Thank the lord for Private Eye

This obituary is for someone very dear to me, my wife Kate Ogborn’s mother Jane, a wise literary intellect who eventually accepted me into the most impressive and beloved clan it has been my honour to know. My thanks to Kate’s brother Miles for a fine summation. www.theguardian.com/education/20...