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Darrel Bristow-Bovey

@dbbovey.bsky.social

Screenwriter (most recently White Lies), author, public speaker, rugby watcher, lover of old movies Latest book: Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Darren Scott died this week. Many legends attached themselves to him, but i know this one is true, because I was there. bristowbovey.com/2025/05/29/d...

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Darren Scott’s Suitcase

I don’t know if Darren Scott really did invent the Suitcase. I haven’t thought of Suitcases in a long time, but now that I have, they’re a whooshing Proustian flashback to Johannesburg and the medi…

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thrilled Anora won the Oscar. One of my best movie-going experiences last year was watching it in Deauville, with a full house of 1500 people roaring with laughter, Francis Ford Coppola in the next row, a French woman in the row in front of me, breathless with anxiety and shouting at the screen.

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

They say that looking for delight makes you more likely to see it, more likely to live a life of delight. For the past several years of a very peripatetic life, I have been recording a delight a day, sometimes more: bristowbovey.com/daily-deligh...

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Daily Delights

14 February 2025 (Friday) – Athens The bakery on the ground floor has filled its display windows with great big heart-shaped walnut cakes, iced all round in bright love-red or pure snowy whit…

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Favourite 10 movies watched in January: The Apartment (1960) Algiers (1938) The Major and the Minor (1942) Little Darlings (1980) The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) The Happy Prince (2018) The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968) Flight Risk (2025) Nosferatu (2024)

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

White Lies is recommended by the Sunday Times, which means I finally have some return on my Times subscription.

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It's winter in Morocco.

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ireland will continue to be a good team for a while yet, but you do get the impression their golden age is just gently on the wane. It will happen to us all, one day.

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey @dbbovey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My first post here! Let's try out the piece I wrote this week about werewolves and playing rugby against England. www.vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-...

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Boks need to moer the English – in English!

Staying calm when South Africa takes on England is like trying to appease a werewolf when there's a full moon.

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