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David Morrison

@david-morrison.bsky.social
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Digital Production at BFI. Just as likely to post about other stuff. Film, architecture, art, design etc.

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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Breaking news of a heatwave (103 years ago): replay.bfi.org.uk/video/db7276...
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Heat Wave Hits London Topical Budget 610-2 | Replay
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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
😍 CHECK OUT THE GORGEOUS BFI CINEMAS BETA! 🎬 A product of love and exemplaraly agile user-centred design, addressing *years* of customer frustration. Ready for you to play with and feed back on while we keep building.... www.bfi.org.uk/news/try-new...
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Try the new BFI Cinemas website (beta)
An update on the public beta release of the new BFI Cinemas website.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
So many reasons to see this rare 35mm screening of a 90s classic, but a fairly niche one is it’s also the first film cameo by Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis (who also features on the soundtrack). bsky.app/profile/lost...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Went to Bristol recently and one of the advantages of a niche interest in modernism is that while the suspension bridge was heaving, both Clifton Cathedral and All Saints (with windows by John Piper) had not a soul to be seen.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Finally published in the Guardian, writing about Helsinki (no, I’m counting it!). Didn’t win the £200 though. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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‘Like it had been put on Earth specially for me’: readers’ favourite European city breaks
From the later summer glow of Marseille to polar nights in Tromsø, our tipsters choose their favourite cities
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Glad to see The Bear still experimenting with form and further developing its characters. Season 4 felt like they were back in the game, though for me nothing can still quite match Jimmy’s banana.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
For anyone interested in art or architecture the Do Ho Suh exhibition at Tate is a must. The sheer painstaking patience of the man is incredible. A genuinely original show themed around the memories of places we’ve lived. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home
The internationally renowned South Korean’s diaphanous houses, coming to Tate Modern, embody the emotional imprint of where he has lived
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Looks like there are 3 tickets left. Run, don’t walk! bsky.app/profile/antb...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Visited Villa Stenersen in Oslo recently, designed by Arne Korsmo for Munch’s biographer. It’s well worth a trip.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A long time ago i made the mistake of asking the price of a small print of Yoshitomo Nara in a gallery, thinking i might get it as a gift for my partner. I did not get the gift. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down houses
The Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that also includes more sombre – and still angry – work made since the Fukushima disaster
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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Cinema Rediscovered returns to Bristol with an 80+ event line-up of global film gems… Last chance to pick up an early bird pass! www.watershed.co.uk/news/cinema-...
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Cinema Rediscovered returns with an 80+ event line-up of global film gems
Cinema Rediscovered returns to venues in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wed 23 - Sun 27 July 2025.
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
BFI Film on Film Festival opens for booking next week. Quite like the sound of a rare screening of Frank Perry’s (of The Swimmer fame) Fire Island set Last Summer. Oh, and i guess there’s also Star Wars from an original 1977 print. Might be popular? whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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BFI Film on Film Festival 2025
Welcome to the BFI Film on Film Festival where every film, without exception, is projected from a print.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Having visited Picker House today, it was every bit as good as it looks. Impeccably kept modernist time capsule with an art collection including Hepworth, Calder, Miro, Rodin, Sutherland and more (or Moore). Worth booking one of the limited tours. www.stanleypickertrust.org/about
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Found a new house to add to this thread, and not one i’d ever heard of before - Picker House in Kingston. www.stanleypickertrust.org bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Cajsa Lykke @cajsa-lykke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Love this local cinema in Stockholm that I covered for @dezeen.com: www.dezeen.com/2025/04/04/i...
A wood-clad cinema with a central bar
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Went on a walk in Hampstead yesterday and discovered what has to be the nicest council estate I’ve ever seen. History of it here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/t...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Finally watched Close Your Eyes, and when Ana Torrent intones ‘Soy Ana’, echoing her debut over 50 years ago, it hit me like a wave, returning me not just to Erice’s earlier masterpiece but also to a 30th anniversary San Sebastián screening attended by the actress. Where did all the years go?
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
IKEA x Severance www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/03/ikea...
A four wing office cubical set up up in a large room with green carpet. A pastiche of the Severance set design but with Ikea furniture
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s Eric Rohmer’s birthday, which can mean only one thing: I get to reshare my favourite BFI article, by @sam-wigley.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/features/80s...
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80s fashion choices in the films of Eric Rohmer
Get inspiration for the 80s look with our trendspotter’s guide to the clothes in Eric Rohmer’s films of the 1980s.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is playing at BFI next Thursday. Still feels so ahead of its time and well worth seeing on the big screen. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
About 15 years ago their original EP was worth over £100. I remember showing someone my still sealed copy (which i’d got for free) when asked what the most valuable record i owned was. As i showed them i promptly dropped it, knocking about £50 off its value. bsky.app/profile/theq...
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 19/02/2025
Come work with us at MUBI! We're looking for a staff writer to join our Platform Editorial team in London. Please see the listing for more details ✍️ jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUBI/3fdfcbe...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Although you shouldn’t expect a fictional narrative to stick to the details of someone’s (in this case Breuer’s) life, this article does touch on many of the things wrong with The Brutalist. Kept wanting Paul Thomas Anderson to step in and do it properly. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
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Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 05/02/2025
Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether The Strange World Of… #Fugazi buff.ly/42Gt7PS
A still from documentary WE ARE FUGAZI FROM WASHINGTON D.C.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Still tickets left for a rare 35mm screening of Robert Towne’s Personal Best at BFI. Feels like one of the last hurrahs of the New Hollywood filmmakers, a film rooted in character but with a directorial style all of its own. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Re-watched Jim Jarmusch’s anthology film Night on Earth, and it still feels original. Had forgotten how amazing Rosie Perez is in the New York section, and in fact just how many great actors he corralled in general. Rome is a weak point, but LA, NYC, Paris and Helsinki more than make up for it.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“If it opens people’s eyes to the beauty and diversity of the architecture of the period, it will be marvellous” C20’s @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com on the new film The Brutalist, that’s winning awards and helping the heritage fight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Experts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings
Architectural historians say success of Brady Corbet’s film could help in fight to protect heritage of divisive style
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Love the idea of this. Who’s going to shout Judas? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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Cat Power sings Dylan '66 | Barbican
Cat Power performs a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thought I’d do a small thread of some modernist homes and buildings you can visit in England. First up is 2 Willow Rd, Erno Goldfinger’s house in Hampstead, now looked after by the National Trust: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london...
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2 Willow Road | London
Visitor information for 2 Willow Road, Ernő Goldfinger's 1930s Modernist home in Hampstead, London.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers is my favourite novel of the last decade, so I was nervous about reading Creation Lake. An informant page turner that’s also a meditation on where humans come from and where they’re going, it’s like the prehistoric caves it references - there’s so much in there.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Finally watched Robot Dreams, and it’s such a great film - humorous, heartfelt and heartbreaking, with a real sense of place but bags of imagination. Have loved all Pablo Berger’s films so far (though yet to see Abracadabra). It’s a shame he’s not made more.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I love Athina Rachel Tsangari’s description of A Charlie Brown Christmas as a ‘holiday futility special’ that features the best dance In the history of movies. And good trolling from Luca Guadagnino picking Godfather Part III. bsky.app/profile/sigh...
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films
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The 12 films of Christmas: filmmakers on their festive favourites
It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
After a mix up I’m seeing All We Imagine as Light with a friend next week instead of with my partner on our anniversary, so thanks @sightsoundmag.bsky.social for making it film of the year the day before. Those 19 happy years were good while they lasted… bsky.app/profile/sigh...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
These are genuinely incredible, both in their execution but also just for wanting to do this. bsky.app/profile/pres...
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Michael Brooke @marbleicehook.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My latest "Where to begin with..." piece for the BFI, and by some distance the one that I had the most fun writing.
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Where to begin with Guy Maddin
As his wild new satire Rumours is unleashed into cinemas, we take a trip into the frantic, archaic, half-remembered dream worlds of the one and only Guy Maddin.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Good value interview with Richard Eyre, including tales of guerrilla filmmaking at the 1982 Tory Party conference. Still tickets going to an In Conversation 8 Dec at BFI. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/r...
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“Nobody loves a dirty joke more than Judi”: Richard Eyre on directing the greats
From working with a young Daniel Day-Lewis to multiple collaborations with Judi Dench, Richard Eyre has many stories from his distinguished career in British film and TV drama. Ahead of a new season o...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I won first prize in a Wyoming rodeo bsky.app/profile/andr...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Brutalist Is coming to BFI on 70mm in January. I’m surprised there aren’t more fictional films about architects, but aside from a few famous examples I can’t think of that many. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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Buy cinema tickets for The Brutalist (70mm) | BFI Southbank
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
One of very few modernist properties the National Trust looks after, The Homewood is well worth a visit, and easily doable from London. bsky.app/profile/modi...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I knew Richard Linklater was making another film over 20 years. What I hadn’t realised is it’s a Stephen Sondheim musical. So I’m going to be both really excited to see it in 20 years and then probably hate it.
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Been getting quotes from builders, and it’s made me think, the best film I can think of about builders would have to be Valeska Grisebach’s Western. It’s tense, complex and doesn’t always go where you think. Highly recommend it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8f8...
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Western - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Films Boutique
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Is It just me or is this an odd choice of image for this story? bsky.app/profile/fina...
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David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Since I’m as likely to post about modernist architecture as film, may as well start with this recent article where I squeezed the current obsession into the day job: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/modern...
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Modern house on film: 10 films featuring modernist homes
As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
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