Peter Clinch
@zipnolan.bsky.social
Retired. English. Obsessions: Bridge, fantasy football, jazz, soul, R and B, collecting movies on physical media, cluttering the house with stuff relating to the above.
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Raw Nietzschean Stanwyck fucks a railwayman in a cargo train one day, and a randy executive in the ladies' room on another. Then she does his father, for advancement that ultimately proves to be hollow. The original end is better than the bowdlerised edition, but still too tame.
#Barbanuary 2026 #5
#Barbanuary 2026 #5
January 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Raw Nietzschean Stanwyck fucks a railwayman in a cargo train one day, and a randy executive in the ladies' room on another. Then she does his father, for advancement that ultimately proves to be hollow. The original end is better than the bowdlerised edition, but still too tame.
#Barbanuary 2026 #5
#Barbanuary 2026 #5
A tough watch in our political climate. Stanwyck and Cooper both terrific, it nails the sickening manipulations of American politics with truth forever negotiable. The ending falls between the (teleo)logical and the sentimental: the schmaltz comes at us like a hanging curveball.
#Barbanuary2026 #4
#Barbanuary2026 #4
January 19, 2026 at 12:51 PM
A tough watch in our political climate. Stanwyck and Cooper both terrific, it nails the sickening manipulations of American politics with truth forever negotiable. The ending falls between the (teleo)logical and the sentimental: the schmaltz comes at us like a hanging curveball.
#Barbanuary2026 #4
#Barbanuary2026 #4
The self-flagellating joy of a vicarious Stanwyck as she reinvents herself via her daughter is miraculous. The banal affectations of allaround her only serve to concentrate Stella's authenticity so she can be reborn in glimmering, glorious and uniquely proud Stanwyckian squalor.
#Barbanuary2026 #3
#Barbanuary2026 #3
January 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The self-flagellating joy of a vicarious Stanwyck as she reinvents herself via her daughter is miraculous. The banal affectations of allaround her only serve to concentrate Stella's authenticity so she can be reborn in glimmering, glorious and uniquely proud Stanwyckian squalor.
#Barbanuary2026 #3
#Barbanuary2026 #3
Steeped in traditional Japanese fable, capturing gruesome ambition and male violence; beautiful to watch, but also deeply troubling on the eye. Each male character is vile, goading others to unspeakable acts. Couldn't watch another film for a few days after digesting this.
#Japanuary2026 #10
#Japanuary2026 #10
January 17, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Steeped in traditional Japanese fable, capturing gruesome ambition and male violence; beautiful to watch, but also deeply troubling on the eye. Each male character is vile, goading others to unspeakable acts. Couldn't watch another film for a few days after digesting this.
#Japanuary2026 #10
#Japanuary2026 #10
On Sky Arts this evening. I'm quite fancying it.
If he did, he's got a few things to answer for.
If he did, he's got a few things to answer for.
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
On Sky Arts this evening. I'm quite fancying it.
If he did, he's got a few things to answer for.
If he did, he's got a few things to answer for.
A Pygmalionesque plot echoed as Capra unveils Stanwyck's acting range. The highlight is the sexy scene of unrequited love in Graves’s apartment where her expressive acting is pitch-perfect. Marie Prevost (Sennett and Lubitsch alumnus) is a hoot, and her comic timing is wonderful.
#Barbanuary #1
#Barbanuary #1
January 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM
A Pygmalionesque plot echoed as Capra unveils Stanwyck's acting range. The highlight is the sexy scene of unrequited love in Graves’s apartment where her expressive acting is pitch-perfect. Marie Prevost (Sennett and Lubitsch alumnus) is a hoot, and her comic timing is wonderful.
#Barbanuary #1
#Barbanuary #1
There's a vibe of other films of the era: Czech absurdism, a touch of Losey's Accident (or other early Pinter), maybe Godard's Weekend. More trenchant than any of those, with its unfiltered pacifism and unambiguous disgust at racism. Powerful, funny and unadulterated.
#Japanuary2026 #8
#Japanuary2026 #8
January 10, 2026 at 10:08 AM
There's a vibe of other films of the era: Czech absurdism, a touch of Losey's Accident (or other early Pinter), maybe Godard's Weekend. More trenchant than any of those, with its unfiltered pacifism and unambiguous disgust at racism. Powerful, funny and unadulterated.
#Japanuary2026 #8
#Japanuary2026 #8
The jagged veins of post-war Hiroshima spill copious blood. Hand-held, random, with music that brings lives to screeching ends. Only Hirono, Eastwood-like, abides by the code. The thread of tension between Hirono, Yamamori and his chilling wife is gripping to the end.
#Japanuary2026 #7
#Japanuary2026 #7
January 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
The jagged veins of post-war Hiroshima spill copious blood. Hand-held, random, with music that brings lives to screeching ends. Only Hirono, Eastwood-like, abides by the code. The thread of tension between Hirono, Yamamori and his chilling wife is gripping to the end.
#Japanuary2026 #7
#Japanuary2026 #7
After a gourmet start to my inaugural Japanuary, this one felt like leftovers.
Too much is going on, requiring a surfeit of disbelief suspension. Initially grounded in some real traumatic history, all descends to mysticism and sentimentality. Could have been so much less muddled.
#Japanuary2026 #6
Too much is going on, requiring a surfeit of disbelief suspension. Initially grounded in some real traumatic history, all descends to mysticism and sentimentality. Could have been so much less muddled.
#Japanuary2026 #6
January 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
After a gourmet start to my inaugural Japanuary, this one felt like leftovers.
Too much is going on, requiring a surfeit of disbelief suspension. Initially grounded in some real traumatic history, all descends to mysticism and sentimentality. Could have been so much less muddled.
#Japanuary2026 #6
Too much is going on, requiring a surfeit of disbelief suspension. Initially grounded in some real traumatic history, all descends to mysticism and sentimentality. Could have been so much less muddled.
#Japanuary2026 #6
Many Western echoes in such a distinctly Japanese film: Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, even Olivier in Marathon Man. But to transform the torture into a vengeful catharsis of deep-rooted origin, that is where the genius lies.
#Japanuary Film 5
#Japanuary Film 5
January 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Many Western echoes in such a distinctly Japanese film: Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, even Olivier in Marathon Man. But to transform the torture into a vengeful catharsis of deep-rooted origin, that is where the genius lies.
#Japanuary Film 5
#Japanuary Film 5
A bout de souffle sans jouissance. Joy is solely destructive in this extraordinary effort, and its only viable syntax is untethered jazz. Brando begat Dean begat Belmondo…. who begat Kawachi. Without any moral shackles.
#Japanuary2026 #4
#Japanuary2026 #4
January 4, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A bout de souffle sans jouissance. Joy is solely destructive in this extraordinary effort, and its only viable syntax is untethered jazz. Brando begat Dean begat Belmondo…. who begat Kawachi. Without any moral shackles.
#Japanuary2026 #4
#Japanuary2026 #4
There is huge economy of plot in this 1960 heist-noir, furiously anti-elitist despite its apparently staid setting. What seems superficially as if it could be a TV crime episode belies a steely and grim moral resolve. Its faux-civilised tone defines passive-aggression. Very fine.
#Japanuary2026 3
#Japanuary2026 3
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM
There is huge economy of plot in this 1960 heist-noir, furiously anti-elitist despite its apparently staid setting. What seems superficially as if it could be a TV crime episode belies a steely and grim moral resolve. Its faux-civilised tone defines passive-aggression. Very fine.
#Japanuary2026 3
#Japanuary2026 3
Multilayered, vital. Visually and thematically it moves from landscape to portrait mode, as the characters slowly discover social modi operandi that are unfamiliar to them. The camera's humanity transcends the aridly procedural to make a wonder of where we may arrive.
#Japanuary2026 #2.
#Japanuary2026 #2.
January 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Multilayered, vital. Visually and thematically it moves from landscape to portrait mode, as the characters slowly discover social modi operandi that are unfamiliar to them. The camera's humanity transcends the aridly procedural to make a wonder of where we may arrive.
#Japanuary2026 #2.
#Japanuary2026 #2.
A film about impotence (creative/sexual) captured through juddering hand-held shots, flecked with monochrome flashes of destructive light masquerading as power, mediated by gangland punk violence. The urban landscape holds nothing save a bleak yet beautiful death drive.
#Japanuary2026 Film 1
#Japanuary2026 Film 1
January 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
A film about impotence (creative/sexual) captured through juddering hand-held shots, flecked with monochrome flashes of destructive light masquerading as power, mediated by gangland punk violence. The urban landscape holds nothing save a bleak yet beautiful death drive.
#Japanuary2026 Film 1
#Japanuary2026 Film 1
This beauty just arrived through the letter box - looks absolutely fantastic.
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This beauty just arrived through the letter box - looks absolutely fantastic.
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
My sincere thanks to those who have shaped and enhanced my cultural 2025 on Bluesky, including but not only:
@annebillson.bsky.social
@pamhutch.bsky.social
@andrewmale.bsky.social
@jamesmjharrison.bsky.social
@tippingmyfedora.bsky.social
@midcenturycinema.bsky.social
@rememberthispod.bsky.social
@annebillson.bsky.social
@pamhutch.bsky.social
@andrewmale.bsky.social
@jamesmjharrison.bsky.social
@tippingmyfedora.bsky.social
@midcenturycinema.bsky.social
@rememberthispod.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My sincere thanks to those who have shaped and enhanced my cultural 2025 on Bluesky, including but not only:
@annebillson.bsky.social
@pamhutch.bsky.social
@andrewmale.bsky.social
@jamesmjharrison.bsky.social
@tippingmyfedora.bsky.social
@midcenturycinema.bsky.social
@rememberthispod.bsky.social
@annebillson.bsky.social
@pamhutch.bsky.social
@andrewmale.bsky.social
@jamesmjharrison.bsky.social
@tippingmyfedora.bsky.social
@midcenturycinema.bsky.social
@rememberthispod.bsky.social
Evening viewing is set
Watch Wild River for Lee’s birthday. I love films with hugely contrasting performances and you won’t find two more different approaches than Clift and Remick in this. He is angular, nervous, broken, yet oddly charming. She is fluid, wise, seemingly effortless. £3.49 on Prime.
Lee Remick, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1935, in Quincy, Massachusetts
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Evening viewing is set
Wonderful album, poignant at the time and increasingly so now.
December 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wonderful album, poignant at the time and increasingly so now.
I don’t know if the person who does BBC2’s Saturday afternoon film selection also writes obituaries in the Telegraph, but it seems that the same war films are on a permanent loop. Ice Cold in Alex today, joining The Wooden Horse and Judgment at Nuremberg in the echo chamber.
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I don’t know if the person who does BBC2’s Saturday afternoon film selection also writes obituaries in the Telegraph, but it seems that the same war films are on a permanent loop. Ice Cold in Alex today, joining The Wooden Horse and Judgment at Nuremberg in the echo chamber.
Many thanks to @pamhutch.bsky.social for an illuminating contextual guide to The Vamp at Fabrica Brighton this evening. As usual, entertaining and scholarly in an uneffacing way.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Many thanks to @pamhutch.bsky.social for an illuminating contextual guide to The Vamp at Fabrica Brighton this evening. As usual, entertaining and scholarly in an uneffacing way.
Four shining moments for me at @filmnoiruk.bsky.social Festival today. Gun Crazy obvs, but also the measured tension and sly red herrings of Plunder Road, the claustrophobic Beware My Lovely and the Neil-Branded Forgotten Faces with its lucid silent grammar. A memorable weekend, thank you.
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Four shining moments for me at @filmnoiruk.bsky.social Festival today. Gun Crazy obvs, but also the measured tension and sly red herrings of Plunder Road, the claustrophobic Beware My Lovely and the Neil-Branded Forgotten Faces with its lucid silent grammar. A memorable weekend, thank you.
I am not normally an impatient being, but I simply can’t wait for this
Radical Japan: Cinema and State - Nine Films by Nagisa Oshima (LE)
This first volume in an ongoing series explores the films of new wave icon Nagisa Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence).
radiancefilms.us13.list-manage.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I am not normally an impatient being, but I simply can’t wait for this
Just received my BFI Sep-Oct programme but haven’t got to read it yet as it smells too good to open. Might take up glue-sniffing at my advanced age.
July 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Just received my BFI Sep-Oct programme but haven’t got to read it yet as it smells too good to open. Might take up glue-sniffing at my advanced age.
After watching the fabulous Henry Fonda for President at #cineredis25 today I have impulse-bought the Bea Arthur series Maude on eBay. It will be queued behind Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and The Mary Tyler Moore box sets, also recently purchased.
July 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After watching the fabulous Henry Fonda for President at #cineredis25 today I have impulse-bought the Bea Arthur series Maude on eBay. It will be queued behind Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and The Mary Tyler Moore box sets, also recently purchased.
@cineredis.bsky.social @markcosgrove.bsky.social
I am not good at talking to people at events, but I wanted to say here that #cineredis25 is exceeding all my expectations. Just came out of Killer of Sheep an emotional wreck - thank you so much!
I am not good at talking to people at events, but I wanted to say here that #cineredis25 is exceeding all my expectations. Just came out of Killer of Sheep an emotional wreck - thank you so much!
July 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
@cineredis.bsky.social @markcosgrove.bsky.social
I am not good at talking to people at events, but I wanted to say here that #cineredis25 is exceeding all my expectations. Just came out of Killer of Sheep an emotional wreck - thank you so much!
I am not good at talking to people at events, but I wanted to say here that #cineredis25 is exceeding all my expectations. Just came out of Killer of Sheep an emotional wreck - thank you so much!