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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...
Monday anthem just dropped 🎶 #oldhollywood #harrybelafonte #filmtok
TikTok video by Turner Classic Movies
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heidi-colthup.bsky.social
we're surrounded by media all the time.
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Still are massively hostile, I'd say - it hasn't shifted, just expanded. We are the OG Mickey Mousers
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Reposted by: Melanie Williams, Tim Bale

sharonodea.com
This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.

Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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by Katrina Navickas — Reposted by: Melanie Williams, Margot C. Finn

katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Contrasting headlines
Rip off degrees such as English
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chrisanstey74.bsky.social
Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.
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sonofbengt.bsky.social
#TOTP
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Ahem, Diana Dors, if you please...
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outonbluesix.bsky.social
Absolutely delighted with this chat I had with @gracedent.bsky.social about Bagpuss. It took us both back to early childhood and I had no idea it was going to get so deep and profound. A truly great show and a great person to talk about it with.

timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
what a great bit of programming! a nicely mixed bill
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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 6d
@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich has always been cool for film.
Cinema listings poster: NORFOLK & NORWICH FILM THEATRE LTD. NOVERRE CINEMA ASSEMBLY HOUSE NORWICH Tel: 26402 'AKENFIELD" with introduction by Ronald Blythe Author of Akenfield MAY 19 8PM Peter Halls 'AKRENFIELD, MAY 20-24 5.45 and 8.15 *Children's Matinee* LIONEL JEFFRIES "The Amazing Mr Blunden’ U MAY 24 at 2.30 pm Modern German Cinema Season 'Aguirre, Wrath of God' A Director: Werner Herzog JUNE 16 JUNE 17 JUNE 18 Modern German Cinema Season "Fear eats the Soul’ AA Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder JUNE 19 JUNE 20 JUNE 21
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outonbluesix.bsky.social
Miriam Kent joins me for a chat about Black Widow, a fun yet thought-provokingly challenging movie that was dogged by delays caused by everything from lockdown to boardroom politics and tedious men crying about 'woke', and has since been almost forgotten...

timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Black Widow With Miriam Kent
Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her ‘eating stale biscuits’ conditioning in Black Widow.
timworthington.org
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accordingtojond.bsky.social
@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich has always been cool for film.
Cinema listings poster: NORFOLK & NORWICH FILM THEATRE LTD. NOVERRE CINEMA ASSEMBLY HOUSE NORWICH Tel: 26402 'AKENFIELD" with introduction by Ronald Blythe Author of Akenfield MAY 19 8PM Peter Halls 'AKRENFIELD, MAY 20-24 5.45 and 8.15 *Children's Matinee* LIONEL JEFFRIES "The Amazing Mr Blunden’ U MAY 24 at 2.30 pm Modern German Cinema Season 'Aguirre, Wrath of God' A Director: Werner Herzog JUNE 16 JUNE 17 JUNE 18 Modern German Cinema Season "Fear eats the Soul’ AA Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder JUNE 19 JUNE 20 JUNE 21
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outonbluesix.bsky.social
So come on, did anyone else - apart from @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social - try to bounce off the sofa cushions in a bid to emulate the opening titles of Jamie And The Magic Torch?

timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...
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accordingtojond.bsky.social
Happy birthday to one of the greatest series and *the* greatest title sequence.
BBC Arena - Opening Titles
YouTube video by spikeyroberto
youtu.be
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outonbluesix.bsky.social
With @janehill.bsky.social on Blue Peter, @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social on Jamie And The Magic Torch, @mrphilnorman.bsky.social on Pipkins, @unamccormack.bsky.social on The Children Of Green Knowe and @gracedent.bsky.social on Bagpuss.

timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...
The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – “A Bloke And A Monkey Filming On A Bus, That’s A Usual Sort Of Thing”
Watch with Jane Hill on Blue Peter, Melanie Williams on Jamie And The Magic Torch, Phil Norman on Pipkins, Una McCormack on The Children Of Green Knowe and Grace Dent on Bagpuss.
timworthington.org
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Reposted by: Melanie Williams

bturnerinfo.bsky.social
Tomorrow is the final SUPAKINO #bombaymix of the year. And it’s a corker!

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of BLOW-UP (1966) and JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983)

SAT SEPT 27th 2025

www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Really looking (or 'leica-ing' - sorry 😞) forward to this photographic double bill this Saturday, programmed with panache by @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social
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Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social · 15d
📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025

tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys

Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
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Reposted by: Melanie Williams

ranjitsruprai.bsky.social
📷 Counterculture On Camera 📸

Join @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social, @bressonian.bsky.social (recorded intro) + film historian @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a double bill of JAANE BHI DO YAARO & BLOW-UP at Close-Up Cinema on SAT 27 SEP 2025

tinyurl.com/yc4m69ys

Cool art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
And a fine name it is too.

Reposted by: Melanie Williams, Margot C. Finn, Julie Cupples , and 2 more

plashingvole.bsky.social
Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…
A SmartViz monitoring device installed at a university.
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by Martin Paul Eve — Reposted by: Melanie Williams

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OfS is a disgraceful regulator, actively hostile to the institutions over which it has jurisdiction. It wields its blunt instrument, "TEF", as though at an amateur broadsword contest.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20d
'Based on the outcomes of this super-TEF and prioritised based on assessment of risk, OfS will make interventions (including controls on recruitment and the conditions of degree awarding powers) and targeted investigation. This is a first stage consultation only, stage two will come in August 2026.'
TEF6: the incredible machine takes over quality assurance regulation
There's something for everyone in the latest rethink of the Teaching Excellence Framework, but - as David Kernohan suggests - bringing disparate approaches together can highlight fundamental weaknesse...
wonkhe.com
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Melanie Williams, Martin Paul Eve

eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Based on the outcomes of this super-TEF and prioritised based on assessment of risk, OfS will make interventions (including controls on recruitment and the conditions of degree awarding powers) and targeted investigation. This is a first stage consultation only, stage two will come in August 2026.'
TEF6: the incredible machine takes over quality assurance regulation
There's something for everyone in the latest rethink of the Teaching Excellence Framework, but - as David Kernohan suggests - bringing disparate approaches together can highlight fundamental weaknesse...
wonkhe.com
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by Steven Fielding — Reposted by: Melanie Williams

polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
It’s still shameful @salforduni.bsky.social
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 29d
Shameful from @salforduni.bsky.social.
britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 29d
Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Hearing I Feel Love on the waltzers at Hull Fair about 25 years ago is honestly one of the most transcendent experiences of my life!
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Tagged 4 days ago and still not a dickie bird from them. But if they think my query is just going to evaporate into thin air without a response, I'm afraid they've got another think coming
polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 29d
Shameful from @salforduni.bsky.social.
britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 29d
Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...
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Reposted by: Melanie Williams

dandyandafop.bsky.social
I don’t wish to know how old any of them were here.

#totp
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filmnoiruk.bsky.social
We are beginning to hear from a number of #FilmNoir friends that actor Herbert Halbik; best known for playing little Hansel in Carol Reed’s classic #BritNoir The Third Man (1949), has passed away…

Halbik was the last surviving member of the cast.
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frizfrizzle.bsky.social
If you can't handle me at my worst (eating a microwaved lasagne wearing just my pants) you don't deserve me at my best (same but with a hat on)
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by Melanie Williams

britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Yep, similar experience (with first one at least). Sorry to hear of a fellow sufferer, sending sympathetic solidarity
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by Steven Fielding — Reposted by: Melanie Williams

polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
Shameful from @salforduni.bsky.social.
britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 29d
Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...
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