Jack Fiehn
@jackfiehn.bsky.social
Political reporter for BBC Radio Surrey. Film buff
Honestly, this is a genuine classic. Bowled over whenever I watch it.
#blackandwhitefilm of the day: Saloon Bar, 1940. Pub regulars Gordon Harker and Mervyn Johns try to prove a drinking pal is not a murderer. Funny and thrilling and greatly evocative of a characterful 30s Soho boozer atmosphere on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 2.15pm youtu.be/uFs5irSK9So?...
Showgirls Need Pom Poms - Saloon Bar (1940)
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December 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Honestly, this is a genuine classic. Bowled over whenever I watch it.
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The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Adored Stoppard. Left theatres after watching Arcadia, The Real Thing and Rock ‘n’ Roll completely inspired, while Leopoldstadt was devastating. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Shakespeare in Love are films I rewatch all the time. What a loss.
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Adored Stoppard. Left theatres after watching Arcadia, The Real Thing and Rock ‘n’ Roll completely inspired, while Leopoldstadt was devastating. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Shakespeare in Love are films I rewatch all the time. What a loss.
Apropos of nothing, on 26 August 1991 BBC2 turned over its entire schedule to mark the closure of Lime Grove studios and it really was glorious www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/h...
On This Day, 1991: Lime Grove Studios remembered
On 26 August 1991, the BBC broadcast a series of programmes marking the closure of Lime Grove Studios a month before.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Apropos of nothing, on 26 August 1991 BBC2 turned over its entire schedule to mark the closure of Lime Grove studios and it really was glorious www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/h...
Sad to hear about Pauline Collins. Fantastic in Upstairs Downstairs and Shirley Valentine was a film I loved, with a magic script by Willie Russell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pauline Collins, star of Shirley Valentine, dies aged 85
Her family said she died peacefully in her London care home having had Parkinson's for several years.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sad to hear about Pauline Collins. Fantastic in Upstairs Downstairs and Shirley Valentine was a film I loved, with a magic script by Willie Russell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90
Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
It’s not really my genre,but four 10/10 horror films for me
1. The Leopard Man
2. Night of the Demon
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. The Wicker Man (1973 version)
1. The Leopard Man
2. Night of the Demon
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. The Wicker Man (1973 version)
Four 10/10 horror movies (not an opinion)
1. The Witch
2. Alien
3. A Field In England
4. Longlegs 😏
1. The Witch
2. Alien
3. A Field In England
4. Longlegs 😏
Four 10/10 horror movies to me
1. Let the Right One In
2. Evil Dead 2
3. The Empty Man
4. Audition (high trash)
1. Let the Right One In
2. Evil Dead 2
3. The Empty Man
4. Audition (high trash)
October 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s not really my genre,but four 10/10 horror films for me
1. The Leopard Man
2. Night of the Demon
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. The Wicker Man (1973 version)
1. The Leopard Man
2. Night of the Demon
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. The Wicker Man (1973 version)
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Not only was she beautiful she was a superb actress, a genuine icon and as classy as they come.
Claudia Cardinale RIP
Claudia Cardinale RIP
September 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Not only was she beautiful she was a superb actress, a genuine icon and as classy as they come.
Claudia Cardinale RIP
Claudia Cardinale RIP
The most beautiful of film writers on one of the beautiful Hollywood stars. You may not agree with David Thomson (I’m not sure I do), but the writing is sublime www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Robert Redford was the last simple beauty
Robert Redford, 1936-2025.
www.newstatesman.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The most beautiful of film writers on one of the beautiful Hollywood stars. You may not agree with David Thomson (I’m not sure I do), but the writing is sublime www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
What can you say about the impact of Robert Redford? Not enough. One of the icons. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (obviously), All the President’s Men, Sneakers, and, as director, A River Runs Through It are my personal favourites.
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What can you say about the impact of Robert Redford? Not enough. One of the icons. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (obviously), All the President’s Men, Sneakers, and, as director, A River Runs Through It are my personal favourites.
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He never got old
RIP Robert Redford
RIP Robert Redford
September 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
He never got old
RIP Robert Redford
RIP Robert Redford
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
Think this might be one of the strangest seasons I can remember.
May 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Think this might be one of the strangest seasons I can remember.
Hitchcock Top 5.
5. Rear Window
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. The Lady Vanishes
2. North by Northwest
1. The 39 Steps
5. Rear Window
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. The Lady Vanishes
2. North by Northwest
1. The 39 Steps
Purely personal rather a list of what are deemed his best by the good and great.
Hitchcock Top 5.
5. Rope
4. The Lady Vanishes
3. Strangers on a Train
2. The 39 Steps
1. Notorious
Hitchcock Top 5.
5. Rope
4. The Lady Vanishes
3. Strangers on a Train
2. The 39 Steps
1. Notorious
Oh boy here we go again.
Hitchcock Top 5.
5. Lifeboat
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. North by Northwest
2. The Birds
1. Psycho
Ask me again in five minutes; I'll give you a different list.
Hitchcock Top 5.
5. Lifeboat
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. North by Northwest
2. The Birds
1. Psycho
Ask me again in five minutes; I'll give you a different list.
May 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Hitchcock Top 5.
5. Rear Window
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. The Lady Vanishes
2. North by Northwest
1. The 39 Steps
5. Rear Window
4. Shadow of a Doubt
3. The Lady Vanishes
2. North by Northwest
1. The 39 Steps
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A supercut of every time Norm entered Cheers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...
Cheers | Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the Bar
YouTube video by Peacock
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May 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A supercut of every time Norm entered Cheers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED...
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George Wendt 1948-2025 RIP
May 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
George Wendt 1948-2025 RIP
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When I started writing Pictures at a Revolution 20 years ago, I wanted Robert Benton to be in the first sentence--which he is--because there would be no book without him. PAAR was my first book; I had no track record as an author, and desperately needed interviews. Benton was the first to say yes. >
May 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
When I started writing Pictures at a Revolution 20 years ago, I wanted Robert Benton to be in the first sentence--which he is--because there would be no book without him. PAAR was my first book; I had no track record as an author, and desperately needed interviews. Benton was the first to say yes. >
Ah Val Kilmer. Really sad. For what it’s worth, my favourite performances were in Willow and Heat, but enjoyed lots of his films. As others have said he was an underrated comic actor.
April 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Ah Val Kilmer. Really sad. For what it’s worth, my favourite performances were in Willow and Heat, but enjoyed lots of his films. As others have said he was an underrated comic actor.
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Some thoughts on the late Gene Hackman: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Gene Hackman: the star of every scene he was in
From The Conversation to The Royal Tenenbaums, the actor rode America’s new wave to become the gold standard for characterful acting with heft
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some thoughts on the late Gene Hackman: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
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Sam Peckinpah was born 100 years ago today
@jessicakiang.bsky.social on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and 1974, the year when road movies began to run on empty
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jessicakiang.bsky.social on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and 1974, the year when road movies began to run on empty
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The Magnificent ’74: Road movies
Why the American road movie in 1974 had begun to run on empty.
www.bfi.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sam Peckinpah was born 100 years ago today
@jessicakiang.bsky.social on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and 1974, the year when road movies began to run on empty
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jessicakiang.bsky.social on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and 1974, the year when road movies began to run on empty
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Hard to overstate the importance of David Lynch to cinema in the last forty years. Mulholland Drive is the film of his that I admire most, but what a legacy
January 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hard to overstate the importance of David Lynch to cinema in the last forty years. Mulholland Drive is the film of his that I admire most, but what a legacy
As I tentatively start to post here,a piece on the reaction from councils in Surrey to the government's targets for more homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Surrey: Councils say new housing targets will be 'challenging'
Local authorities in Surrey will have to build nearly 11,000 homes as part of government plans.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
As I tentatively start to post here,a piece on the reaction from councils in Surrey to the government's targets for more homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Since IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is on the ol' timeline again, let me recommend Kim Morgan's 2017 essay. Her view of Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell)—💔: "Someone has not been having such a wonderful life, and it’s not George Bailey." thenewbev.com/blog/2017/12...
Kim Morgan on It's A Wonderful Life
Film historian Kim Morgan writes about Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life.
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December 7, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Since IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is on the ol' timeline again, let me recommend Kim Morgan's 2017 essay. Her view of Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell)—💔: "Someone has not been having such a wonderful life, and it’s not George Bailey." thenewbev.com/blog/2017/12...
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Another Surrey council sounds the bankruptcy alarm as 'all scenarios' point to reserves running out by as early as 2027 'unless difficult decisions' are made.
Huge spending and service cuts are coming.
#LDReporter
Huge spending and service cuts are coming.
#LDReporter
Council's bleak warning as financial crisis looms
Another Surrey council is at risk of bankruptcy
www.getsurrey.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Another Surrey council sounds the bankruptcy alarm as 'all scenarios' point to reserves running out by as early as 2027 'unless difficult decisions' are made.
Huge spending and service cuts are coming.
#LDReporter
Huge spending and service cuts are coming.
#LDReporter