Not slash per se...
Having watched too many "mid" British films, may I instead offer you this Austen dream sequence from "Bedrooms and Hallways" 1998) with James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Kevin McKidd, and Harriet Walter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac5h...
Having watched too many "mid" British films, may I instead offer you this Austen dream sequence from "Bedrooms and Hallways" 1998) with James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Kevin McKidd, and Harriet Walter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac5h...
Bedrooms & Hallways: Austen Parody
YouTube video by yuhwaku
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Not slash per se...
Having watched too many "mid" British films, may I instead offer you this Austen dream sequence from "Bedrooms and Hallways" 1998) with James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Kevin McKidd, and Harriet Walter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac5h...
Having watched too many "mid" British films, may I instead offer you this Austen dream sequence from "Bedrooms and Hallways" 1998) with James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Kevin McKidd, and Harriet Walter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac5h...
Bevis Hiller's heyday as reviewer was the full stretch of the 80s, so...
Rebecca West or Beryl Bainbridge?
Rebecca West or Beryl Bainbridge?
January 12, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Bevis Hiller's heyday as reviewer was the full stretch of the 80s, so...
Rebecca West or Beryl Bainbridge?
Rebecca West or Beryl Bainbridge?
Where/how did you watch it?
I've been keeping an eye open for it since I saw a rave about 5 years ago
dcairns.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/g...
I've been keeping an eye open for it since I saw a rave about 5 years ago
dcairns.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/g...
January 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Where/how did you watch it?
I've been keeping an eye open for it since I saw a rave about 5 years ago
dcairns.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/g...
I've been keeping an eye open for it since I saw a rave about 5 years ago
dcairns.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/g...
How about: A Specter Is Haunting Texas. By Fritz Leiber
Conquered Canada is North Texas. Continental America is ruled by primitive, redneck, anti-intellectual, giant, hormone-boosted, bio-engineered "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority subjugating a Mexican underclass.
Conquered Canada is North Texas. Continental America is ruled by primitive, redneck, anti-intellectual, giant, hormone-boosted, bio-engineered "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority subjugating a Mexican underclass.
January 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
How about: A Specter Is Haunting Texas. By Fritz Leiber
Conquered Canada is North Texas. Continental America is ruled by primitive, redneck, anti-intellectual, giant, hormone-boosted, bio-engineered "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority subjugating a Mexican underclass.
Conquered Canada is North Texas. Continental America is ruled by primitive, redneck, anti-intellectual, giant, hormone-boosted, bio-engineered "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority subjugating a Mexican underclass.
There's a fun comic strip about Churchill as the Greatest "Dying" Englishman in Private Eye, 8 February 1963 making this same argument:
January 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM
There's a fun comic strip about Churchill as the Greatest "Dying" Englishman in Private Eye, 8 February 1963 making this same argument:
One of the reasons he and Christopher Guest ended up in The National Lampoon stage show / rock musical "Lemmings" is because they could play their instruments live on stage for various rock pastiches
January 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM
One of the reasons he and Christopher Guest ended up in The National Lampoon stage show / rock musical "Lemmings" is because they could play their instruments live on stage for various rock pastiches
Do any of the stories this time around effectively end "Suddenly [a character] may or may not have been mysteriously eaten by sharks"?
It seemed a peculiar motif/habit when I read through her books about 10-15 years ago. Confirmed when she turned out reefs of shark essays in the wake of JAWS.
It seemed a peculiar motif/habit when I read through her books about 10-15 years ago. Confirmed when she turned out reefs of shark essays in the wake of JAWS.
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Do any of the stories this time around effectively end "Suddenly [a character] may or may not have been mysteriously eaten by sharks"?
It seemed a peculiar motif/habit when I read through her books about 10-15 years ago. Confirmed when she turned out reefs of shark essays in the wake of JAWS.
It seemed a peculiar motif/habit when I read through her books about 10-15 years ago. Confirmed when she turned out reefs of shark essays in the wake of JAWS.
His alienated, horrified, domination/supremacy over the wayward body - bringing to mind this quote from "THE WILL TO BEAUTY" by Stephen Schiff, Vanity Fair, Jan 84
which presages the popular and pertinent "EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL AND NO ONE IS HORNY" by R.S. Benedict
which presages the popular and pertinent "EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL AND NO ONE IS HORNY" by R.S. Benedict
December 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
His alienated, horrified, domination/supremacy over the wayward body - bringing to mind this quote from "THE WILL TO BEAUTY" by Stephen Schiff, Vanity Fair, Jan 84
which presages the popular and pertinent "EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL AND NO ONE IS HORNY" by R.S. Benedict
which presages the popular and pertinent "EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL AND NO ONE IS HORNY" by R.S. Benedict
Not a bad direction to be led in
Except for Eskimo Day & Cold Enough for Snow. Just uggh
The two films I listed stand out as rare films of female-centred Brit nostalgia, and each has a special feel
A Posy Simmond scripted one about studying in 60s Paris, "The Frog Prince" was just too aimless
Except for Eskimo Day & Cold Enough for Snow. Just uggh
The two films I listed stand out as rare films of female-centred Brit nostalgia, and each has a special feel
A Posy Simmond scripted one about studying in 60s Paris, "The Frog Prince" was just too aimless
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Not a bad direction to be led in
Except for Eskimo Day & Cold Enough for Snow. Just uggh
The two films I listed stand out as rare films of female-centred Brit nostalgia, and each has a special feel
A Posy Simmond scripted one about studying in 60s Paris, "The Frog Prince" was just too aimless
Except for Eskimo Day & Cold Enough for Snow. Just uggh
The two films I listed stand out as rare films of female-centred Brit nostalgia, and each has a special feel
A Posy Simmond scripted one about studying in 60s Paris, "The Frog Prince" was just too aimless
Re "P'tang Yang" have you seen any of the other 82/83 "Young Love" Channel4/Goldcrest films?
"Those Glory Glory Days" & Experience Preferred... But Not Essential" were both good.
No surprise when Palin's intro to "East of Ipswich" revealed it was an orphan of "Young Love"'s cancellation
"Those Glory Glory Days" & Experience Preferred... But Not Essential" were both good.
No surprise when Palin's intro to "East of Ipswich" revealed it was an orphan of "Young Love"'s cancellation
December 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Re "P'tang Yang" have you seen any of the other 82/83 "Young Love" Channel4/Goldcrest films?
"Those Glory Glory Days" & Experience Preferred... But Not Essential" were both good.
No surprise when Palin's intro to "East of Ipswich" revealed it was an orphan of "Young Love"'s cancellation
"Those Glory Glory Days" & Experience Preferred... But Not Essential" were both good.
No surprise when Palin's intro to "East of Ipswich" revealed it was an orphan of "Young Love"'s cancellation
Earlier this year. I'd really recommend it.
Everytime it might settle into one type of sf story, it'll leapfrog decades and accelerate into a new mode - as do his humans and dogs. His transhumanism is like a release from Plato's Cave. Care and concern are Simak's motivations.
Everytime it might settle into one type of sf story, it'll leapfrog decades and accelerate into a new mode - as do his humans and dogs. His transhumanism is like a release from Plato's Cave. Care and concern are Simak's motivations.
December 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Earlier this year. I'd really recommend it.
Everytime it might settle into one type of sf story, it'll leapfrog decades and accelerate into a new mode - as do his humans and dogs. His transhumanism is like a release from Plato's Cave. Care and concern are Simak's motivations.
Everytime it might settle into one type of sf story, it'll leapfrog decades and accelerate into a new mode - as do his humans and dogs. His transhumanism is like a release from Plato's Cave. Care and concern are Simak's motivations.
Clifford Simak's "City": a great collection of late 40s sf stories where humans evolve beyond recognisable humanity, as dogs likewise evolve to become the dominant sentient, pacifist species for whom their past warlike masters are just a myth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(n...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(n...
City (novel) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Clifford Simak's "City": a great collection of late 40s sf stories where humans evolve beyond recognisable humanity, as dogs likewise evolve to become the dominant sentient, pacifist species for whom their past warlike masters are just a myth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(n...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(n...
Finally got William Gaddis – The Recognitions off the shelf. After 8 days my head felt like this – but as a good thing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO31...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO31...
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Finally got William Gaddis – The Recognitions off the shelf. After 8 days my head felt like this – but as a good thing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO31...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO31...
Warren Miller – Looking for the General. A picaresque of post-war American institutional paranoias and homespun crankery under the space age and nuclear holocaust, tinted by Melville and Gogol.
NYRB, Daunt or McNally should reprint it - I suspect it resides in estate limbo.
NYRB, Daunt or McNally should reprint it - I suspect it resides in estate limbo.
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Warren Miller – Looking for the General. A picaresque of post-war American institutional paranoias and homespun crankery under the space age and nuclear holocaust, tinted by Melville and Gogol.
NYRB, Daunt or McNally should reprint it - I suspect it resides in estate limbo.
NYRB, Daunt or McNally should reprint it - I suspect it resides in estate limbo.
Recommend Elizabeth Jenkins – The Tortoise and the Hare as the most perfectly formed novel for breaking your heart. Oddly, Barbara Pym – A Glass of Blessings offers an almost identical protag - but no longer isolated, in a community of Emma-like surprises.
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Recommend Elizabeth Jenkins – The Tortoise and the Hare as the most perfectly formed novel for breaking your heart. Oddly, Barbara Pym – A Glass of Blessings offers an almost identical protag - but no longer isolated, in a community of Emma-like surprises.
Oddly, Cambridge University Press has posted the editorial-critical apparatus surrounding their edition of the Hobby and all the other Esquire stories. Some good history, editorial cruxes, and holographs
assets.cambridge.org/97811076/430...
assets.cambridge.org/97811076/430...
December 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oddly, Cambridge University Press has posted the editorial-critical apparatus surrounding their edition of the Hobby and all the other Esquire stories. Some good history, editorial cruxes, and holographs
assets.cambridge.org/97811076/430...
assets.cambridge.org/97811076/430...
Also applies to problems with British industry 60s-70s.
My parents and their friends have so many stories of executives and managers who only had a small window of competence each day between hangovers and getting smashed by (late) lunch.It's just strikers are much more obvious in books/docs.
My parents and their friends have so many stories of executives and managers who only had a small window of competence each day between hangovers and getting smashed by (late) lunch.It's just strikers are much more obvious in books/docs.
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Also applies to problems with British industry 60s-70s.
My parents and their friends have so many stories of executives and managers who only had a small window of competence each day between hangovers and getting smashed by (late) lunch.It's just strikers are much more obvious in books/docs.
My parents and their friends have so many stories of executives and managers who only had a small window of competence each day between hangovers and getting smashed by (late) lunch.It's just strikers are much more obvious in books/docs.
It made me question my regard for Almodovar's last 15-20 years of art-house films. It opened up the possibility that the dialog of his Spanish films was just as inept but disguised by being in another language. Maybe others of his films were actually bad too.
December 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It made me question my regard for Almodovar's last 15-20 years of art-house films. It opened up the possibility that the dialog of his Spanish films was just as inept but disguised by being in another language. Maybe others of his films were actually bad too.
Wally Wood's Disneyland Memorial for Paul Krassner's "The Realist", May 1967 already delivered:
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Wally Wood's Disneyland Memorial for Paul Krassner's "The Realist", May 1967 already delivered:
The Wilder-mother quote is probably translated from Wilder's article about SCHINDLER'S LIST, “Man sah überall nur Taschentücher” in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, 18 Feb 1994, and then most likely spread via Anthony Lane's New Yorker article
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Wilder-mother quote is probably translated from Wilder's article about SCHINDLER'S LIST, “Man sah überall nur Taschentücher” in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, 18 Feb 1994, and then most likely spread via Anthony Lane's New Yorker article
The nurse vomiting-if-she-tells-a-lie gimmick of KNIVES OUT felt like an escapee from this kind of 90s nonsense thriller. For all its other mystery clockworks and social comment, it might as well have had a plot point where anyone dressed in purple was invisible to one brain-injured witness.
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The nurse vomiting-if-she-tells-a-lie gimmick of KNIVES OUT felt like an escapee from this kind of 90s nonsense thriller. For all its other mystery clockworks and social comment, it might as well have had a plot point where anyone dressed in purple was invisible to one brain-injured witness.