Fiona Watson
@monsterfromid66.bsky.social
Edinburgh based screenwriter/video essayist. Masters Of Cinema. Arrow. Criterion. Owner of an ADHD/AuDHD brain. Manual not included.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Look what they did to my boy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ib...
Sidewalks of New York (1931) 1080p
YouTube video by Marat Shafeev Films
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November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Look what they did to my boy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ib...
I fully support this move. The last time it happened was in 1963. Casting suggestions for Judex please, with the restriction that the lead actor also has to be a magician. Get out of that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HM_...
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I fully support this move. The last time it happened was in 1963. Casting suggestions for Judex please, with the restriction that the lead actor also has to be a magician. Get out of that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HM_...
#BusterKeaton A few years ago I had a chat with someone who'd written a superb book about Keaton. Their love and appreciation of him flowed out of every page. They wondered if he'd been unable to feel physical pain in the same way that other people do.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#BusterKeaton A few years ago I had a chat with someone who'd written a superb book about Keaton. Their love and appreciation of him flowed out of every page. They wondered if he'd been unable to feel physical pain in the same way that other people do.
Wonderful, wonderful writing.
My friend Imogen Sara Smith wrote several times about Tatsuya Nakadai's unique qualities, such as here in 2020 at Bright Lights Film Journal. brightlightsfilm.com/japanese-cin...
Japanese Cinema's Uncommon Man: Tatsuya Nakadai's Dissidents, Outcasts, and Shadow Warriors - Bright Lights Film Journal
"Like Hollywood's new postwar men, he offered a multifaceted, ambivalent masculinity far from monolithic wartime ideals."
brightlightsfilm.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wonderful, wonderful writing.
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I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...
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My main thought here is that if a case were brought (and I assume Trump just wants the BBC to cave and give him money) then he'd have to show it damaged him in some way. Given that, despite it, he became POTUS, I can't think what damage he could show. He was already widely hated.
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like
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November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My main thought here is that if a case were brought (and I assume Trump just wants the BBC to cave and give him money) then he'd have to show it damaged him in some way. Given that, despite it, he became POTUS, I can't think what damage he could show. He was already widely hated.
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God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
I can't eat something that plays the piano! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
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November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I can't eat something that plays the piano! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
The Haunting (1963) is one of my favourite haunted house movies. I've even had dreams about the interior of Hill House, (amazing PD by Elliot Scott) so firmly has it impressed itself into my consciousness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sog3...
Creepy scene from "The Haunting"(the original 1963 one)
YouTube video by MrDeliriaframe
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Haunting (1963) is one of my favourite haunted house movies. I've even had dreams about the interior of Hill House, (amazing PD by Elliot Scott) so firmly has it impressed itself into my consciousness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sog3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpkM... #Merv is my favourite Cat Of The Internet. We've even started using "Don't summon Bagagwa," in casual conversation. Makes me want to get another #Siamese.
Man Never Wanted a Pet Until He Met This Talkative Cat
YouTube video by Cuddle Buddies Shorts
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November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpkM... #Merv is my favourite Cat Of The Internet. We've even started using "Don't summon Bagagwa," in casual conversation. Makes me want to get another #Siamese.
Why are those Confused.Com ads so creepy? Anyone else find them creepy?
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Why are those Confused.Com ads so creepy? Anyone else find them creepy?
I was in a card shop today when a sample of the Knight Rider theme turned up in a dance track. I have no idea what it was but when I serched through YT I discovered that's it's basically impossible to do a bad remix of the thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPW...
Knight Rider Theme (Sindirilla HOUSE remix)
YouTube video by SindirillaOfficial
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I was in a card shop today when a sample of the Knight Rider theme turned up in a dance track. I have no idea what it was but when I serched through YT I discovered that's it's basically impossible to do a bad remix of the thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPW...
MUD AND FUNK. If you can see through the 1980s VHS haze, that is indeed Bernie Worrell from Funkadelic. Parts of this were filmed in #Edinburgh and the locals couldn't stop talking about it for years. #Scotland www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ab9...
Jesse Rae - Chainsaw
YouTube video by Cannop
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November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
MUD AND FUNK. If you can see through the 1980s VHS haze, that is indeed Bernie Worrell from Funkadelic. Parts of this were filmed in #Edinburgh and the locals couldn't stop talking about it for years. #Scotland www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ab9...
It's my dead husband #BusterKeaton again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgv...
Buster Keaton / Hero
YouTube video by Lostimmortal2
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November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's my dead husband #BusterKeaton again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgv...
Buster Keaton wanted to team up with Dressler during his tenure at MGM, but they wouldn't let him. Idiots.
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
-Marie Dressler #BOTD
Dressler gives one of the best double takes in cinema history
-Marie Dressler #BOTD
Dressler gives one of the best double takes in cinema history
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Buster Keaton wanted to team up with Dressler during his tenure at MGM, but they wouldn't let him. Idiots.
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Louise and Jean Bradin in a publicity still from the set of Prix de Beauté (1930).
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Louise and Jean Bradin in a publicity still from the set of Prix de Beauté (1930).
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I must admit I had completely forgotten that
a. This existed
b. I had it
a. This existed
b. I had it
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I must admit I had completely forgotten that
a. This existed
b. I had it
a. This existed
b. I had it
Just imagine me, a nearly sixty year old woman dancing around the living room to this. Or don't. I really couldn't care less. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbl...
Living on the Ceiling (Vince Clarke Remix)
YouTube video by Blancmange - Topic
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November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Just imagine me, a nearly sixty year old woman dancing around the living room to this. Or don't. I really couldn't care less. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbl...
I Was A Teenage #MonsterKid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyw_...
Monster Kids | Official Trailer | BayView Documentaries
YouTube video by BayViewEntertainment
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November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I Was A Teenage #MonsterKid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyw_...
Watching #RayHarryhausen films as a kid on tv, I became completely dedicated to finding out what the Harpies' faces looked like, to the point of pressing my face up against the screen, at which point the picture just broke up into dots. Classic Monster Kid behaviour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vxM...
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Stop-Motion shots of Harpies
YouTube video by Patrick Parenteau
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November 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Watching #RayHarryhausen films as a kid on tv, I became completely dedicated to finding out what the Harpies' faces looked like, to the point of pressing my face up against the screen, at which point the picture just broke up into dots. Classic Monster Kid behaviour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vxM...
