La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 12h#NowPlaying Beck had Album of the Year in the bag until I heard Julia Jacklin’s The Gem. Astounding songwriting and performance, and sure to be a record that stays with me. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I could put at least 3 Powell & Pressburger films on this list, and regret the absence of Hammer and Bond, but in the interests of representing the whole of British cinema: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Kind Hearts and Coronets The Third Man Saturday Night and Sunday Morning The Wicker Man 350
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Letty Lynton opens as Sternbergesque exotica, becomes a charming shipboard romance, then something more touching, before reaching an almost frightening intensity. The film’s grip lessens in the last stretch, but what’s come before is amazing. 0131
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Some have complained that there’s not much of a plot, but The Fog is a gorgeous mood piece. I would be an avid listener to Adrienne Barbeau’s late-night jazz station, even with the occasional breaks in programming to scream at her kid to get out of the house. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I may have to watch this just to see Jayne Mansfield as a mob boss. 171
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just talking with @adriandoran.bsky.social about how Frank Miller must have modelled Marv in Sin City on Aldo Ray. 110
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Woman Who Came Back (1945) starts alarmingly with a witch-burning flashback and an old biddy sending a busload of passengers to their deaths, but then settles down to become something like a contemporary Universal rural Sherlock Holmes mystery minus the mystery. 133
Reposted by La MédiathèqueAntique Superheroes @antiquesuperheroes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Christopher Reeve's Birthday to all who celebrate! 26620
Reposted by La MédiathèqueKazuyoshi Kawasaki @kawasaki1972.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Marina Vlady (1938 - 2026). 0387
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Starting here, I’ve gone into a Sorcerers deep dive on Bandcamp. Groovy jazz exotica. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Celia is one of the “radio drama adapted for the big screen” quickies that were Exclusive (pre-Hammer)’s bread and butter before they stumbled upon gothics. 110
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Chnouf is sometimes described as a procedural, but it’s actually more a How It Works account of the 1950s drug business, with Jean Gabin as our helpful guide through a series of “Now I want to see how it’s made/transported/sold” scenes. It reminded me of the first part of Scorsese’s Casino. 160
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026QTP with a cartoon with an awesome theme song.static.klipy.comHong Kong PhooeyALT: Hong Kong Phooey 021
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I feel that on his Lonesome trilogy, Beck has captured the “cosmic American music” Gram Parsons said he was after. It’s country, but out of Scott Walker and A Winged Victory for the Sullen. The consistency of purpose and execution is such that I would defy a newcomer to order them chronologically. 1103
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#NowPlaying #JazzSky Sweets Edison and Conte Candoli introduce us to the West Coast sound. 021
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#NowPlaying #JazzSky Vibes, flute—pardon me while I adjust my beret and comb my goatee. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Devil Bat is essentially Kind Hearts and Coronets with giant shrieking bats as the means of assassination. Bela Lugosi is the least likely “Paul Carruthers” imaginable. Then again, he’s a small-town doctor who doubles as a corporate perfumier. 110
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Giant Claw! “It’s as big as a battleship!” 0205
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Mysterious blonde in a huge classic car bewitches a drifter who discovers she has a double nature. There’s a lot of Robert Hossein’s Nude in a White Car (C’est Toi, le Venin) in David Lynch’s Lost Highway, and they share a dream-logic feel. 130
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? 040
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#NowPlaying Bar the odd clanger (like Surrey with the Fringe on Top), a lovely record, the strings light seasoning rather than a slathered dressing. 051
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#NowPlaying This early Reprise album, arranged by Neal Hefti, is one of Sinatra’s most lighthearted, including the impenitent caught-cheating Don’cha Go ‘Way Mad, the assertion that his lady is superior to Venus because she possesses arms, and the diabolical Everybody’s Twistin’. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Quite Hammer-adjacent, this, with James Donald, Noel Willman and Herbert Lom. Also great sci-fi bubble helmets. 021
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Things I was frightened of as a child: The swamp at the bottom of our garden (I grew up on a farm) The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (first film I saw—I ran screaming from the cinema) Razor blades on slides Being at the wheel of a moving vehicle with no brakes Nuns 030
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The casting for the Modesty Blaise film was spot-on, but Joseph Losey delivered a TV Batman-flavoured campfest that wasted Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026#NowPlaying The Karman Line by Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble has a tasty 70s spiritual jazz aesthetic coloured by the likes of Alice Coltrane and Yusuf Lateef (yes, there’s flute and harp). It feels like the soundtrack to a movie about a detective who uses the I Ching to help him with his cases. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026#NowPlaying After Ethiopiques, Malaysia is looking like the next jazz territory rich for exploration. This is great, from the Audible Beauty label. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I was never certain what exactly Alain Delon’s job is in Mort d’un Pourri, but he’s seeking vengeance for the murder of his friend and he’s seemingly indestructible as Captain Scarlet, walking away without a scratch even from having a car transporter dropped on him. 110
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Andy Williams’ versions of Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars and How Insensitive predate Frank Sinatra’s album with Jobim by a couple of years, and I’m convinced Frank was listening. youtu.be/MB6nrYLRp_Y?...youtu.beQuiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)YouTube video by Andy Williams - Topic 000
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If you play the “take a drink every time someone on screen does” game with Mr Denning Drives North, you’ll be plastered quite quickly. The crazy plotting and rife racism suggest the author was doing the same as he wrote. Another oddity is that the credits are shouted. 110
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Just found another of Richard J Anobile’s photobooks—the precursors to VHS. I didn’t know there was one dedicated to Play It Again, Sam. 110
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A movie poster just waiting for its typography. 010
Reposted by La MédiathèqueBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️ 9496176
Reposted by La MédiathèqueSusie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Some more Salamander shoes advertising for your delight. 142
Reposted by La MédiathèqueMy Imaginary Brooklyn @myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Yayoi Kusama, 1998. #illustration #cats #1990s #YayoiKusama 010712
Reposted by La MédiathèqueTCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Next up, Kim Novak and James Stewart, Bell, Book and Candle, 1958. 5627
Reposted by La MédiathèqueHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Back when tinned grapefruit (or a slice of melon or a glass of orange juice) was an ‘hors d’oeuvres’ - and signified the start of a posh meal 2338237
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I Know Where I’m Going! is my favourite film, so I’ll take the opportunity to share some photos from my pilgrimage to Mull. 0195
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 24/08/2026#NowPlaying Track 1: Ain’t It Funky Now. Why yes, since you ask. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 24/08/2026In Jacques Demy’s Lola, time-shifted iterations of characters, situations and lives are layered over each other. This rhymes with the way he confects new models of characters from Hollywood films he’s loved—the MGM musical shore-leave sailors, Lola herself another Marlene Dietrich or Marilyn Monroe. 0185
