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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 11h

What would we do without Escape to the Country playing in hospital waiting rooms across the land? Do people ever buy a property on this show?

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve said it until I’m blue in the face; what these people will never understand is that the craft and the making IS the thing, not the end result. People want connection, and art is communion and communication. A machine cannot do this because it has nothing to say. Signal out ≠ signal received.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 13h

I still get a real thrill when I see the cover of Connery by the peerless @www.johnbleasdale.com in the wild. The Great Unwatched by Plumeria is available to pre-order, featuring John and many other critics and writers. Forward by @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 15h

Working my way through the Exorcist & Omen films (some for the first time). Exorcist 2 remains dire but Legion is great. Omen III is far better than II; I don’t quite understand why it is so hated. The Exorcist property should have ended in 1990 but the Omen prequel from 2024 is passable.

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Devil Child Waving Hello

ALT: Devil Child Waving Hello

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 18h

Can we agree that the term ‘AI-enabled actor’ can get in the bin? “Unusually…the creators did not feed moving or still images of Garbo into the AI because the material was protected by copyright” Utter bollocks. Stop the world I want to get off. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert

Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous roles

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now that’s how you cut a trailer. Magnificent. The Devils 4K Director’s Cut restoration. youtu.be/eTNkceU8T5I

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The Devils 4K Restoration Re-Release Trailer (2026)

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Trailers

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s something heartening about Mark Kermode’s decades-long mission to have The Devils director’s cut released by Warners. Just sheer bloody-minded will and refusal to give up on art, on something that you believe in. A promise kept. It’s absurd that it’s taken this long. youtu.be/sRxfHdTEgWw

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Posteritati Visits: Mark Kermode on Ken Russell's The Devils

YouTube video by Posteritati Movie Poster Gallery

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spent the afternoon clearing out old paintings, slashing canvasses and breaking down frames to go to recycling. Every painting that I rolled when I left the studio- all of my work from the last five years- has deteriorated in storage. They’re all ruined. It’s kind of freeing.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The degradation of our arts is a systematic, insidious failing in the UK, and it begins with the slow but sure loss of venues; a decline that can’t be arrested once they have gone. It’s to our shame that this is such a familiar story. There is no civilisation without artists. Please share.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026

Preorder The Great Unwatched and find the hidden gems your watchlist needs @plumeriapics.bsky.social @letterboxd.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop

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epicentrearts.bsky.social @epicentrearts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing But Memory 2026 Edition 1 of 1

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve set up a new company @epicentrearts.bsky.social to provide a hub for my work, teaching, and eventually the work of others. It has a slightly different flavour to the painting. First Epicentre piece is on its way to a BAFTA winning acquaintance this afternoon. He has good taste.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ah, that’s where I put my password

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

15 minute klaxon to #PeterCushing #ChristopherLee in THE MUMMY (1959) at 12noon @hammerfilms fantasy-horror #TPTVsubtitles

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What a lovely thing to do for somebody. Thank you David. I had two of these pictures on my old studio wall- it’s a tremendously flattering thing to have somebody make a picture of you, particularly as I always look without in my own work.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My friend David makes pictures- in paint and digitally- and he has a shop [semi under construction]. Take a look- there’s some film stuff and all kinds of everything. @thestrovinator.bsky.social no-theme.myspreadshop.co.uk/my+art+%5Bpo...

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Berger’s argument that real art engages with the human experience is exactly my own. The first audience is the maker who, if they satisfy themselves, will inevitably find an audience if it passes the experience metric. This rules out those who produce depthless easy art without thinking about it.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Hayao Miyazaki is right, and Sam Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals."

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My Childhood, My Country, despite the relentless optimism of its central figure that things could and would be better, was a pretty devastating indictment of how we failed the people of Afghanistan; never more true than in the last five years since we fully abandoned them.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rijksmusem, November 1997. I remember drifting through the suburbs of Amsterdam listening to ‘Vanishing Point’ by Primal Scream, barely conscious, as the soda lights streaked in arcing blurs past the windows and time slowed to the rate of that bass line. I’d forgotten this until I found this stub.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 15/08/2026

In Sydney, the studio of the painter Brett Whiteley has reopened with an exhibition of works he made after returning from a decade spent abroad. Ashleigh Wilson describes the space as an ‘exuberant reaffirmation of the artist’s talent’.

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How Brett Whiteley saw Sydney

The Australian artist’s studio has reopened with an exhibition of works made on his return home after a decade spent abroad, writes Ashleigh Wilson

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Giacometti never really did anything for me, but seeing his work in the dimly lit brutalist bowel of Tate modern gave his work a different flavour. Sculpture so often lacks dynamism, but these pieces sing with so much life that you imagine they’ll walk off their plinths at any moment.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I despise gatekeeping, or this form of ingrained elitism which has its origins in conservatism. It reminds me of the acrylic vs oil argument, and is a perochial, pearl-clutching rejection of modernity. A fear response. “How dare you find enjoyment in ways I couldn’t possibly understand”.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I find photorealism in painting pointless and slightly depressing. Of all of the channels of human creative capability that can be brought to bear on painting, this is the most fatuous use of it. Why bother with the paint at all if you wish to erase your own hand?

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Three Studies for a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon, 1962 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved./ARS, New York/DACS, London

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 12/08/2026

Can documentary film kill fascism? My conversation with Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 15/08/2026

Johann Hari plagiarized work in his journalism and maliciously edited Wiki entries of rivals. He has since published 4 books and is a frequent contributor to podcasts and major publications. He’s white.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The government won’t let me wear my polyester trousers in case of fire.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We live in a world where Bohemian Rhapsody won an Oscar for best editing. Of course life’s not fair.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wild that Jacobi has now played Freud and Bacon. Of the passages of Freud’s life that you could relay, to chose this one seems utterly bizarre.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

‘Lucky’ is the first time I’ve come across Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and she is a force, an absolute talent. Utterly wasted in this two bit nipple peep show

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Somebody in this field has sent just someone back to their house round the corner to gather colanders with the exhortation: AS MANY AS POSSIBLE, CHECK THE WENDY HOUSE

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Gave a child at the lake my eclipse glasses and now I’m blind

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Off to the ski slope to watch the eclipse.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I love the smell of fresh ink on a studio contract in the morning….smells like…penury.

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CHRSTPHR//JMS @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the problem; people see the value of art work as monetary, and not that it has inherent value because of the pleasure it brings. Art isn’t about money- though everybody’s got to eat- it’s about communicating with an audience, and them being receptive enough to hang your work on their walls.

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Hifi Sean ✨ @hifisean.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kerry Katona & Terry Christian on breakfast TV every morning discussing culture. You can’t make this up right ?

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