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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 11h

It was shown in the East Room (which weirdly isn't in the East Wing). But they'd already had screenings of CABIRIA and short nature films elsewhere on the grounds.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 2d

"No no no, my KKK-hood tattoo is merely a tribute to my favourite Skrewdriver album"

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 5d

Google Books shows people using "would wish to" like that up through the 19th century. I'd guess it's just that "would" has mostly retreated to conditional or habitual action in modern English outside of some common set phrases like "would like to."

Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 9d

A communist fends off vampires with the hammer and sickle in The Curse of Fenric, a Doctor Who serial from 1989.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 9d

I love Paul's nod and "Oh, yeah" that greets each new detail of the Time review.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 9d

Well, the quote above is an inaccurate paraphrase — Rolling Stone didn't even exist at the time. Here's the actual exchange.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rGtV...

« ... Prostitutes and lesbians, that's all. »

YouTube video by Paul McCartney

m.youtube.com

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 10d

Time, not Rolling Stone (this was at a 1966 press conference).

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 11d

Just realised that the tagline for this must have provided the English title for Tsui Hark's cannibal movie the next year.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 11d

By this argument, DIE HARD is a sequel to the 1968 Frank Sinatra movie THE DETECTIVE.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 13d

And contrariwise, I get the impression from Letterboxd etc. that the Gong Li stuff is underseen these days, and other Fifth Generation films even more so.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 17d

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 19d

You'll notice that fidelity to the books isn't one of my criteria here.

Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 19d

1. Lee Marvin
2. Anna Karina
3. Mel Gibson
4. Robert Duvall
5. Michel Constantin
6. Jim Brown
7. Mark Wahlberg
8. Peter Coyote
9. Jason Statham

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 22d

Shares cinematographers with FIVE EASY PIECES and PLAY TIME.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 22d

So from what I gather, if I've seen the Japanese cuts, then I've seen The Whole Bloody Affair (title sequences etc. aside)? Is this correct?

Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · 29d

He and G.B. Shaw had a public debate once as to whether or not Chesterton was a socialist. Chesterton took the position that he wasn't; Chesterton lost.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 21

Yep.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 20

The Omen, despite the Catholic window dressing, is pretty much Hal Lindsey fanfic.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 17

The most notable example of people politicising math:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch...

Deutsche Mathematik - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 15

Oh, we'll settle for either

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 9

On par with the Zatoichi movies, generally. I liked the fourth one (SWORD OF SEDUCTION) quite a bit.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 7

Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 3

It has this cover, so the U.S. edition, I think?

Cover for Shawn Levy's Ready Steady Go: Mary Quant with a superimposed union jack pattern

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah, I bought the English version of that at Tower Records in Tokyo a few years ago.

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Matthew Butcher @lanius.bsky.social · Sep 1

CASINO ROYALE '67 and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN are just as "official" as the EON films, and if one or both had been better-made, there wouldn't be much argument about this.