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@jamesewand.bsky.social @staggerlee42.bsky.social @tajiisawol.bsky.social Just in case you haven’t heard about this new film by PTA…

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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Mafu Cage (1978). Lee Grant and Carol Kane are very watchable in this of story of dysfunctional sisters. It's all a bit Baby Jane, and the story takes a similar dive into violent insanity, but it is as much a thoughtful mood piece as it is a gonzo exploitation artefact

Poster for The Mafu Cage. A young woman with voluminous red hair sits on a chair behind iron bars.

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 4h

First watch: Gun Crazy (1950, dir. Joseph H. Lewis). Glad to have finally seen this milestone lovers-on-the-run movie. Much more than the more melancholic They Live by Night (1948), this really sets the tone for later iterations of the genre from Bonnie & Clyde to True Romance and beyond

The poster for Gun Crazy, mostly consisting of an illustration of a gun-toting Peggy Cummins (as heroine Laurie) agains a red background. The tagline screams "Thrill Crazy", "Kill Crazy", which just about sums it up

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 15h

Highly recommend if you haven’t heard and like the sound of a well-deployed guitar #NowPlaying

The cover of This Is Lorelei’s album The Singer in My Band, with Nate Amos clutching an upright acoustic guitar in his hand

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 16h

Well I made it to Litomyšl for the Jan Švankmajer: Reliquaries and Fetishes exhibition at Miroslav Kubik Gallery! What a thrill, got to meet a couple of bonafide movie stars in the White Rabbit and Little Otik. Also great to see some brand new pieces for 2026 - 92 and still going strong..!

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 17h

The Cheap Detective is full of cheap jokes and cheap laughs, and I found myself rather amused by it. A pastiche of The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca (with one or two interesting references to contemporary neo-noirs like Chinatown), written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 19h

Lots of re-watching this month because it was pretty shitty BUT there have been some first-time watches that I really enjoyed… #FilmSky

First time watches in Sept 2026 that I loved on Letterboxd - City on Fire, A Mighty Wind, Perfect Blue, Isadora, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Kiss Me Deadly

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 19h

My reading month was mostly bloody good. No dross, all bangers ❤️❤️❤️ #BookSky💙📚

September reading on StoryGraph:

The Odyssey, Howl’s Moving Castle, Written On The Body, Said the Dead, The Twenty Days of Turin, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Saint Peter’s Fair

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 19h

Some favourite new viewing of last month, including: - a first proper watch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('78) - some overlooked (by me) Woody Allen - John Frankenheimer, Otto Preminger, Joan Micklin Silver, Paul Schrader, Robert Bresson, Ryusuke Hamaguchi letterboxd.com/jamesewand/l...

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Fave first-watch films September 2026

... in the order I watched them

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 22h

Arte, which is great right now, is running a collection of Costa-Gravas films including (a bit later this month) Z (which I've seen) and The Confession (which I haven't). Lots to explore... www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC...

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Le cinéma de Costa-Gavras - Cinéma | ARTE

Le cinéma de Costa-Gavras avance avec pudeur et conviction. Sous la tension du thriller, il sonde les cœurs autant que les consciences : la peur, la loyauté, l'amour trahi, la douleur des proches. Ses...

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TFW you drive 100km to go to work and the building is blocked by picketing students!

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Colin J Donnelly @cjdonnelly72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now: The Wicker Man (Hardy) The Servant (Losey) Limbo (Sharrock) Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (Reisz) Kes (Loach)

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Colin J Donnelly @cjdonnelly72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

5 favourite Irish films…as of right now: Odd Man Out (Reed) Maeve (Murphy) The Wind That Sakes The Barley (Loach) The Dead (Huston) That They May Face The Rising Sun (Collins) #FilmSky

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

3. The Adversary (2001) by Emmanuel Carrère. I’m a big fan of the “man in over his head” trope, and this French true crime exploration of the life of a pathological conman gives plenty of that. Insane subject but the magic’s in the telling I really should read some more Carrère

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

5 favourite Irish films...as of right now: Song of the Sea The General The Field A Date for Mad Mary Jimmy's Hall (Clearly I haven't seen enough, but I didn't include any of those below)

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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of MCCABE & MRS. MILLER boxd.it/gzjPVN Maudlin mood piece grows more haunting each time I see it. As Beatty's enigmatic stranger helps build town, community, & tentative romance with Madam Christie, there's always a bigger fish waiting to chomp. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 827

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A ★★★★ review of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

Some Altman blew me away upon first viewing (NASHVILLE: instant masterpiece), while some took a little longer to marinate. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, for me, has grown in my estimation over the years, but ...

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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of BELLE DE JOUR boxd.it/gzsktV As poster child for bourgeois boredom, Deneuve's icy appeal has never been more alluring. Bunuel challenges complacency with collage of kink, blending fantasy/reality into intoxicating dreamlike world. Gorgeous. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 593

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A ★★★★½ review of Belle de Jour (1967)

Has any movie ever used Catherine Deneuve's icy appeal to such great effect? I happen to think that Deneuve is one of cinema's greatest. She could do it all, soulful to chilling. But her utter detachm...

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very big "My dad actually works at Nintendo and we have all these games that haven't been officially released" energy in this Dezső Kosztolányi story ('The Liars') from pre-WW2 Hungary

One morning, as I was walking to school with the youngest boy, he said:
"Hey," and here he stopped and stared straight into my eyes, "last night I was up on the moon with my father."
Surprise and jealousy struck me dumb.
"My father has a little electric machine," he continued.
"No bigger than a match-holder. It takes you there in two and a half minutes."

"And do you sleep there as well?"
"Of course, we have two beds on the moon."
"That's impossible," I said, and continued to question him on the means of travelling to the moon, which my friend divulged to me in detail. The words flowed from his mouth in a continuous stream, and not once did he flicker so much as an eyelid to give the game away. I started pleading with him, begging him to admit he was only having me on. But this he refused to do.
Later he informed me that Jókai's novels were in fact written by his uncle Géza.
At that time I already knew who Jókai was. My mother had seen him at the millennium ceremonies, and had often described to me his tall frame, his blue eyes, his grey wig. And then I knew Uncle Géza too. In the autumn he rattles through the city in a farm wagon, wearing a green Tyrolese hat decorated with a tuft of bristles. He hunts rabbits, and sometimes sends us one as well. I did not consider him to be as clever as Jókai, and the whole thing generally seemed quite incredible. But Károly explained that Uncle Géza writes his novels at home, sends them by post to Budapest, and has them published under Jókai's name out of modesty, Jókai being a good friend of the family; he often comes to visit them. At night, when there's no one to see.
He greeted me with news of this kind every day. One time he boasted that he had a real crocodile in the bathtub, another time that he gets a thousand koronas a week pocket-money from his mother, which he spends on keeping horses outside the city. These fibs vexed me. I resolved to tell him straight out that I knew he was lying,

but when he began to speak my courage failed me and I continued to listen to him, because I was truly interested.
"What do you usually have for breakfast?" he asked me.
"Coffee."
"We, if you please, have chocolate and raisins."
"How many rooms do you have?"
"Three."
"We have fifteen. Four rooms above, and eleven underground, so people won't see."

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Darrell Clem @darrellclem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First watch: I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (1970) Strained relations between a crotchety father (Melvyn Douglas) and his dutiful-but-frustrated son (Gene Hackman) worsen after the father is widowed and the son reveals guilt-ridden plans to leave NYC and move to ... #FilmSky #MovieSky #drama

A movie poster showing actors Melvyn Douglas and Gene Hackman in the family drama I Never Sang for My Father.

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Christopher Burlinson @cmburlinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's the end of a long summer, and work is about to get real, but we've had some really good news today and we're going to celebrate by drinking wine and watching this banger: films (and things) don't get any better than this.

A still from Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going: Roger Livesey and Wendy Hiller, both soaking wet but the chemistry is burning.

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First watch: The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). John Frankenheimer-directed biographical film about real-life murderer turned prison ornithologist John Stroud, played by Burt Lancaster. The supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter and Telly Savales.

The poster for John Frankenheimer's biographical prison drama The Birdman of Alcatraz

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah go on then Local Hero The Italian Job Withnail and I Kill List Under the Skin That’s not a very good list. I’ll probably think of a completely different selection as soon as I post it.

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Peter, or Pete, if you like. @dasjarg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

5 favourite British films Kind Hearts and Coronets Brief Encounter Naked (though I think other Leigh films may be better objectively this one is my favourite) The Red Shoes Howard's End Ask me tomorrow for 5 different choices

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now ... I guess! The Innocents Black Narcissus (or Colonel Blimp) Don't Look Now Withnail & I The Servant

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now: BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Lean) WENT THE DAY WELL? (Cavalcanti) I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (P&P) THE SERVANT (Losey) SEXY BEAST (Glazer) #FilmSky

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now: A Canterbury Tale (Powell&Pressburger) The Arbor (Barnard) Blue (Jarman) The Souvenir Part II (Hogg) The Long Day Closes (Davies)

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my daughters' lycée is now blocked by protesting pupils. This really seems to have spread!

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

second ping-pong related injury. Starting to think club sports are too intense for me!

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or… Withnail & I Monty Python’s Life of Brian A Matter of Life or Death The Third Man Get Carter

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David Michael Nolan @conanriquelme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"What would you say is the greatest British film of all-time? Gimme a Top 5.” 6. Sorry. Brief Encounter Wonderland The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Excalibur Elephant Witchfinder General

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

5 favourite British films…as of right now 🤷‍♂️ Don’t Look Now The Pumpkin Eater The Servant The Spy Who Came In from the Cold The Wicker Man (And/Or: If…, Life of Brian, The Red Shoes, Third Man, The Innocents) #filmsky

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘At the Hanging Rock’, William Ford, 1875, as mentioned in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ by Joan Lindsay, 1967. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/coll...

A painting of a rural scene with a party of well to do people in silk dresses and suits having a lovely outing. There are tall trees with bare trunks and lots of huge rocks.

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First watch: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). Following Interiors (1978), another venture back into the work of Woody Allen after a long hiatus, and one that combines more familiar comic terrain with that darker edge, on what seem like two, only loosely-connected parallel plots

The poster for Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, with a still from a late scene between Allen and Martin Landau in tuxedos, looking a little worse for wear from drink

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had such an incredible time making this podcast, thank you so much to Rob Kelly for having me on. We had a thorough rake through the life and work of Nick Ray, culminating in the swan song that is Lightning Over Water, the remarkable pseudodocumentary he made with Wim Wenders about his own death.

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Darrell Clem @darrellclem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First watch: MOONRISE (1948) is one of the best #NoirAlley features I've seen in quite some time. Dane Clark (as Danny Hawkins) is perfect as a quick-tempered but sympathetic man haunted and bullied his entire life for the hanging of his father for murder in a .. #FilmSky #MovieSky #noir

Movie poster for Moonrise, an absorbing film noir.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sixteen years since I last wrote about werewolves, to tie in with Joe Johnston's THE WOLFMAN (2010), which was a critical and box-office flop.

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The werewolf howls again

Forget vampires and zombies – they're just corpses. Werewolves are alive and howling, says Anne Billson

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A delightful and charming mid-to-late period Woody Allen film. An amiable heist comedy, that is reminiscent of a number of earlier films, from The Ladykillers, to Larceny, inc. Every beat of comedy is obvious, but it always makes me laugh.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New on the blog today, I've written about ALTERED STATES by Anita Brookner. An exquisitely observed character study in which a quiet, circumspect solicitor loses his head over a vain, self-centred woman. A relationship that leads to a terrible betrayal. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/a...

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Altered States by Anita Brookner

Slowly but surely, I’m working my way through Anita Brooker’s exquisitely written novels in publication order – they really are jewel-like in construction. First published in 1996, Altered States i…

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In tribute to Rhal, at whose funeral this was sung so movingly today. Rest in Peace pal www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsi...

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The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends

YouTube video by TheSundaysVEVO

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Film night with Thierry. It has been tough for him for obvious reasons over the last couple of weeks, so we went classic, romantic and hopeful ❤️😎 #FilmSky boxd.it/gu0sVR

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A ★★★★½ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Those doorways shot like portals to another world…

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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just earlier this month I stumbled across a fun 1979 article eagerly sharing how New Hollywood best directors were working through their obsession with the themes, plot and imagery of The Searchers - even to Star Wars and Close Encounters! (that's his breathless 1979 "!", notsomuch mine)

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cinema's greatest disguise.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

THE HATTER’S GHOST (Claude Chabrol, 1982). Creepy Chabrol ‘thriller’ in which the director eschews suspense in favour of a psychological character study focusing on an outwardly respectable serial killer (the town’s hat seller) hiding in plain sight. #FilmSky

Film poster showing the faces of the two male lead actors, Michel Serrault & Charles Aznavour, against a black background.

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

First watch: Hardcore. Another dispatch from 1979, and Paul Schrader’s second (after Taxi Driver) re-writing of The Searchers, in which an older man tracks down a missing younger woman who has gone native with her captors. This time he gets to direct too!

The poster for Paul Schrader's Hardcore (1979), with a mostly black background on to which the tagline reads, "Oh my God, that's my daughter". A smaller insert shows George C. Scott looking anguished with his head in his hands

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Le Boucher’s great and I’ve got a framed small promo poster on my wall (found for 50p from a charity shop in Saltaire), which admittedly raises some eyebrows

Framed promo poster for Le Boucher, the Claude Chabrol film

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Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Robert Benton's The Late Show is a great film. A revisionist noir, which veers honestly between noir and neo-noir; it is a light film, but the threat is real.

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