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Alex Godfrey

@mrgodfrey.bsky.social

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Features Editor at Empire magazine. BSME Best Feature Writer 2023 / shortlisted 2024 & 2025. Shortlisted for PPA Best Writer 2025. Previously: words for Guardian / GQ / Esquire / Telegraph / Sunday Times Culture / Wired https://linktr.ee/MrGodfrey

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! I'm glad. I got a kick out of the thought of it... no idea if PTA was thinking it too.

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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 12d

On sale next week - tickets to my hour-long BFI lesson on the crime genre. Join me for a whirlwind trip from Yakuza to mafioso, Michael Mann to Jean-Pierre Melville:

whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

Lights, Camera, Genre! Crime | BFI London Film Festival 2025

Dive into crime’s shadowy worlds, exploring gripping stories, high-stakes drama, and gritty visual styles that define this suspenseful, thrilling genre.

whatson.bfi.org.uk

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 15d

Don't think reversing images is that straightforward, it changes things a bit. And her T-shirt... Anyway, it's all just silly

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 15d

Please stop doing this! I know there are contractual reasons etc for name placements on posters but this is maddening. Unless it's a body-swap movie. Which it isn't. It hurts my eyes.

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 15d

Pretty much!

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 16d

Lil' blurb on my big interview with Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis. I had an incredible morning with them in New York the other week, discussing filmmaking, family, fatherhood, acting, writing, the whole damn lot. Eight pages of it in the new issue of Empire, on sale this Thursday.

Daniel Day-Lewis on how Anemone rekindled his acting career: ‘I’m not going to shy away from it’

As he returns to acting in his son Ronan Day-Lewis' Anemone, Daniel Day-Lewis exclusively tells Empire about his comeback. Read more.

www.empireonline.com

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 18d

Magazine cover of dreams (and nightmares).

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 18d

Giger (and Ridley Scott) on the original Alien set.

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 18d

One ep of Alien: Earth to go and every time a beastie pops up I think of HR Giger, and how none of this exists without him. A gazillion films and TV shows over nearly 50 years, and arguably none of it would have hit - or endured - were it not for his art. An incredible legacy for such perverse work.

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 19d

I like how much Nine Inch Nails' Tron Ares soundtrack pays tribute to Wendy Carlos. This one is basically A Clockwork Orange:

Nine Inch Nails - Building Better Worlds (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 21d

Five stars from me for One Battle After Another, because they wouldn't let me give it ten. An exhilarating, shit-kicking, rollicking piece of cinema. Seen it twice, love it to death. My two cents/700 words:

One Battle After Another review: Paul Thomas Anderson has made a stone-cold instant classic

Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary in Paul Thomas Anderson's American epic. Read the Empire review.

www.empireonline.com

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 21d

Thank YOU for such wonderful writing.

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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 21d

Six lesser-seen Robert Redford films you need to watch this week.

Empire writers pick their favourite gems – from Sneakers and The Hot Rock, to The Old Man & The Gun.

Read the list: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL piece on Robert Redford here by the one and only @christinalefou.bsky.social. I loved every line of this.

Robert Redford was Hollywood's fairytale prince of cinema – his loss feels deeply personal

Christina Newland pays tribute to the late, great Hollywood star, whose films brought comfort through decades of cinema. Read more at Empire.

www.empireonline.com

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · Dec 2

Robert Redford with a tiny cardboard cut-out of Paul Newman, photographed by John Dominis, Utah, 1969

b&w photo of Robert Redford in a cabin by the fireplace, looking very handsome with shaggy blonde hair, dark mustache, wearing black slacks and a white turtleneck. he's smiling, looking down, with his arm around a very small cardboard Paul Newman in his Butch Cassidy fit

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 26d

THE VIEW!

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 26d

David Lynch's 'compound' is up for grabs. I always find this sort of thing a little ghoulish. But this interior shot got me all emotional. I can just see him in here, tinkering away, smiling contently, conjuring dreams.
variety.com/gallery/davi...

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 27d

A couple more Sign O' The Times screenings have been added at BFI IMAX, for those who missed it...

whatson.bfi.org.uk/imax/Online/...

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 28d

a man says thank you sensei in front of a blurry background

ALT: a man says thank you sensei in front of a blurry background

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 29d

I went to see Sign O' The Times the other day, and it was an incredible and really quite touching experience. So I wrote this: about Prince, IMAX and immortality.

Watching Prince’s IMAX concert film brought his genius back to life

Concert film Sign O' The Times has been remastered for IMAX, making for an unmissable time at the movies, writes Empire's Alex Godfrey.

www.empireonline.com

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you! Yeah, it's not been on at many cinemas, alas. Not that there are that many IMAXs anyway. Sorry you missed it.

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 28d

Madness

Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 28d

Crimes against cover art. This should be beaten to death and buried in a cornfield.

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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 29d

I went to see Sign O' The Times the other day, and it was an incredible and really quite touching experience. So I wrote this: about Prince, IMAX and immortality.

Watching Prince’s IMAX concert film brought his genius back to life

Concert film Sign O' The Times has been remastered for IMAX, making for an unmissable time at the movies, writes Empire's Alex Godfrey.

www.empireonline.com

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 6

This was an atmospheric place to read “Pipe Dreams,” a hilarious retelling of Robert Altman and Robin Williams’ misadventures making “Popeye.”

You can even see a little pirate ship out there.⚓️

By @jamie-graham.bsky.social in @empiremagazine.bsky.social

Excellent use of the word “disgustipated.”

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