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Ian Mundell

@mundellian.bsky.social
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Film and arts writer, journalist, hiding from London in the Low Countries. Romania curious. Cinema blog: mundellian.wordpress.com Art blog: ianmundell.wordpress.com

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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is cool. Persephone Books is returning to London, taking over an 18th century house in Fitzrovia that previously housed Pollock's Toy Museum. Tentative opening in November. persephonebooks.co.uk/blogs/the-pe...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Brussels @cinematek.bsky.social is among 12 candidates for a state lottery heritage prize, specifically for a programme to restore 12 films from 100 years of Belgian cinema. Which is cool, but do we really need to restore films from 2005 and 2010? cinematek.be/dossiers/202...
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Votez pour CINEMATEK lors de la Tombola du Patrimoine ! - CINEMATEK
La Tombola du Patrimoine est un projet de la Loterie Nationale, de Prométhéa, de l’Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique (IRPA) et de museumPASSmusées. Douze finalistes issus de toute la Belgique on...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Theodor Aman's Lady Painting (1862), a favourite from the Muzeul Muzeelor expo at MMAR in București. The show borrows highlights from collections around Romania, with this from the Craiova Art Museum.
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Film studies or archaeology? You decide... www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...
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Dragons then and now: UEA study uncovers Britain’s forgotten fantasy boom
New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) highlights an overlooked chapter in British cinema, when the industry struggled to make the most of a wave of fantasy filmmaking in the early 1980...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"Beeodiversity" Bilingual puns are a Brussels speciality. Plus, a wild bee hotel that sorts the insects by size. Science!
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Yes, but how will we know when we see him?
Poster for missing cat named Rorchat
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Francophone Belgium's equivalent of the Academy is named in honour of director André Delvaux, but it failed to mention his centenary at its awards ceremony this month. The Dardenne brothers lead a protest at this slight and broader neglect of Delvaux's legacy.
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Romanian auction oddity of the day: a sealed bag of lottery scratch cards from around 1983, first prize a Dacia car. Bidders are warned that claims can no longer be made. www.artmark.ro/ro/licitatie...
a sealed paper bag of lottery scratch cards, printed in Romanian
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This month’s Derek Jarman retrospective at the Vienna Film Museum includes two live performances of Blue with original composer Simon Fisher Turner. Wish I could be there! www.filmmuseum.at/en/film_prog... www.filmmuseum.at/en/film_prog...
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Filmmuseum - Blue (Film)
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Coincidentally, an article today in La Libre Belgique about teens hanging out in laundromats because they are priced out or simply excluded from other urban spaces. www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
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Les ados du lavomatique sont profondément révélateurs de notre époque
Il n'y a rien de plus révélateur de notre époque que des adolescents assis entre deux machines à laver, simplement parce que la ville ne leur a laissé...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Dendermonde’s archaeologists want to get into people’s cellars to look for traces of the old town, destroyed in WWI and then built over. And don't panic! You won't get landed with a preservation order...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
And as always, Offscreen has a sharp poster...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Beginning tomorrow at @cinematek.bsky.social in Brussels, Exorcising Franco: Spanish Genre Cinema 1968-1983, part of the excellent Offscreen festival. There will be blood… www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
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EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983 | Offscreen
In 1939, after a brutal civil war, General Francisco Franco seized control of Spain. Backed by the military and the Catholic church, he ruled for decades with an iron fist, banning opposition and expu...
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Ian Mundell @mundellian.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Starting neck exercises now for when this re-opens in August... www.codart.nl/museums/monu...
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Monumental Rubens Ceiling Painting Revealed After Two-Year Renovation - CODART
One of Peter Paul Rubens’s most important commissions—his monumental painting for the Whitehall Ceiling at Banqueting House in central London—is reopening to the public following extensive renovations...
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