La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Absolutely—there’s all this fuss about casting the next lead in the clapped-out James Bond franchise, when you have a goldmine sitting there. Four decades-worth of high-grade source material. 120
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Owl Service has the same issue. Have a look at these teenagers. 231
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 10/10/2026#NowPlaying A record so lovely, it has you leaving off anything you’re doing and just listening, looking into the distance. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Possibly Hopper’s Soir Bleu. It has everything—off-duty clown, haughty lady, stevedores, goateed chap in a bow tie, Japanese lanterns, deep melancholy and mystery. There’s enough narrative for a novel here. 191
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Messiah of Evil is a beautiful film. It looks like Antonioni and Ed Ruscha. 030
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#NowPlaying I have no idea why Sonny Stitt doesn’t have a higher profile. Smooth, melodic, fearsomely deft, I feel he is to saxophone what Oscar Peterson is to piano. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#NowPlaying And the stress of the day melts away like mist. 160
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 06/10/2026All righty— #my9albums, artwork edition. These are 9 of the most beautiful records I’ve ever owned. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Drop some MIRRORS Dead of Night Orphée Last Year at Marienbad The Apartment 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#My9Albums My editions of the Fats and Miles albums had different sleeves, but all these were formative. 260
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#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. 020
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He says “Scotland Yard” because his knowledge of the world stems from old movies he’s watched in bed on late night TV. 000
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 · 26/09/2026I haven’t seen it mentioned, but Vampir Cuadecuc pulls off the amazing feat of making something beautiful out of raw Jess Franco. 130
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
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Very good—proper noir—in Tourneur’s Nightfall. 010
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The murder in Torn Curtain. I haven’t seen the film in decades, but this scene has stayed with me while the rest has evaporated. 000
La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The pace is more relaxed for comic artists these days (though still demanding), but knowing that the likes of Jack Kirby were turning out around 100 pages a month is staggering. And they looked like this. 1863
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 · 20/09/2026I 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
