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Ben Turner @bturnerinfo.bsky.social · 21d

Another fantastic double bill w/ SUPAKINO

Here’s my poster for the screening of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967).

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social & film critic @phuonghhle.com at the CLOSE-UP CENTRE on SAT 20 SEP 2025

www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 22d

This Saturday @ Close-Up Cinema: A Bombay Mix double bill of BABUL/FATHER'S HOUSE (S.U. Sunny, 1950) and OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (Jack Clayton, 1967). I'm very excited to join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social for post-screening conversations on these two rarely screened gems. Book here! tinyurl.com/mtv4mbw2

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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 24d

🏠 The Parental Home 🏡

Join me and my special guest, film critic @phuonghhle.com, for a double bill of BABUL aka FATHER’S HOUSE (1950) & OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) at Close-Up Film Centre on SAT 20 SEP 2025

www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...

Stunning artwork by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social

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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bombay Mix is back! A new season of double bills at Close-Up Film Centre on 13, 20 & 27 Sep 2025 with Dr. Kulraj Phullar, @phuonghhle.com & @bressonian.bsky.social

🇮🇳 MOTHER INDIA + 🇨🇺 I AM CUBA

🏠 BABUL + 🏡 OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE

📷 JAANE BHI DO YAARO + 📸 BLOW-UP

Info: supakino.com/events

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 30

A double Q&A Saturday in London

Select Japan Presents All About Lily Chou-Chou

A Film by Shunji Iwai

+ Zoom Q&A with Shunji Iwai

In the Nguyen Kitchen + Q&A with director Stéphane Ly-Cuong and star Clotilde Chevalier, moderated by Phuong Le

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Aug 29

This is happening tomorrow! Check out the trailer for IN THE NGUYEN KITCHEN and my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for @theguardian.com here www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Aug 28

I adore Stéphane Ly-Cuong's charming musical comedy IN THE NGUYEN KITCHEN, a rare chance to see the Vietnamese-French diaspora portrayed with so much heart and soul. Book here for a screening and a filmmaker Q&A this Saturday at Ciné Lumière, moderated by me! tinyurl.com/9972a3zj

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Tiffany Watt Smith @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social · Jul 11

What a treat! Just had a thoroughly enjoyable evening talking friendship with some extremely smart people including @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @stephenshapiro.bsky.social @phuonghhle.com Alexander Douglas and Susie Orbach. Listen in! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds

Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Cloud Door @the-cloud-door.bsky.social · Jul 13

We hit 20% of our kickstarter goal!

Another milestone reached & all thanks to you! ❤️
Please keep spreading the word as we need all the support we can get to make this a reality. 🙏

You can pledge an amount or pre-order the Blu-ray:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...

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Jonathan Wakeham @jonathanwakeham.bsky.social · Jul 3

Still reeling from Frank & Eleanor Perry's THE SWIMMER (1968) at BFI last night: a ruthless, ravishing horror film about capitalism that sucks you in and and drags you under alongside Burt Lancaster's Ned, one of the boldest lead performances on film. Thank you @phuonghhle.com for a terrific intro.

Burt Lancaster in THE SWIMMER, looming out of the water that shimmers behind him.

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Jul 3

Thank you for the kind words! It really is an astonishing film.

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Omar Ahmed 🍉 @bressonian.bsky.social · Jul 3

☁️ 🚪 For nearly ten yrs, this home video dream has lived in my heart. You know my love for Indian Cinema runs deep. Now, more than ever, I ask: please pledge to the Kickstarter and give it the chance it deserves:

kickstarter.com/projects/tcd...

OM DAR-B-DAR (1988) - Limited Edition Blu-ray & Extras

THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.

kickstarter.com

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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is a dazzling piece by Amy Taubin on the eighth episode of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.” It’s criticism at its absolute finest. @amyornot.bsky.social

mubi.com/en/program-n...

In Dreams: The Atomic Reveries of The Return

In this exclusive essay, Amy Taubin explores the surrealist dreamscapes of The Return’s extraordinary eighth episode, tracing a line from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca to the nuclear reveries of the Amer...

mubi.com

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Jun 9

and yet, against all odds, tenderness still blooms

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Jun 9

Loneliness feels like cold, hard glass in Shōhei Imamura's THE EEL (1997)...

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 29

THE TEMPLE OF WILD GEESE (Yuzo Kawashima, 1962)

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 25

Coming up on May 11: A special screening of Paul Mazursky's BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (1969) to accompany our @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social podcast series on Robert Culp. Looking forward to introducing this swinging gem with @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social! www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/supakin...

SUPAKINO presents: BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE / The Garden Cinema

“First we'll have an orgy and then we'll go see Tony Bennett.” Naked meditation, primal screaming, gestalt therapy and swinging… film curator Ranjit S. Ruprai and film critic Phuong Le introduce Paul ...

www.thegardencinema.co.uk

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 27

oh my god that is some heavy-duty viewing! Hope your grandma enjoy the gourmet cooking scenes...

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 27

Saw FRENZY for the first time at the BFI and this reverse tracking shot is one of the most viscerally upsetting sequences I've ever experienced in a cinema, like some kind of sickness crawling under my skin.

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 25

Coming up on May 11: A special screening of Paul Mazursky's BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (1969) to accompany our @ranjitrewinds.bsky.social podcast series on Robert Culp. Looking forward to introducing this swinging gem with @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social! www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/supakin...

SUPAKINO presents: BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE / The Garden Cinema

“First we'll have an orgy and then we'll go see Tony Bennett.” Naked meditation, primal screaming, gestalt therapy and swinging… film curator Ranjit S. Ruprai and film critic Phuong Le introduce Paul ...

www.thegardencinema.co.uk

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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · Apr 8

got to talk to @andrealongchu.bsky.social for Interview Magazine: www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...

"I Think Most Things Are Bad": Andrea Long Chu on Cruelty, Criticism, and Conviction

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic joined us to discuss her reputation for being a hater and her brand-new collection of essays, "Authority."

www.interviewmagazine.com

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 6

In her incredibly entertaining autobiography, Rosalind Russell detailed how she fought for star billing in THE WOMEN over Norma Shearer's resistance. There's a happy ending, with a cameo from Ernst Lubitsch!

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 6

It's great. I thought some of the sets looked familiar and turned out they reused some sceneries from KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR as that one had cost so much money!

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 6

THE CITADEL (King Vidor, 1938)

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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · Apr 6

A classic South London dilemma, from PERFECT STRANGERS (1945).

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