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Dr Kate Fitzgerald @katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 9h

John Boorman as John Hurt as John Boorman talks to a bog person and The Green Man, then goes to the home of his neighbour, Garech Browne, who keeps the death masks of all his friends on the wall and at one point levitates to pipe music. Would be nice to see a copy that isn't, well, this one.

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'I Dreamt I Woke Up' 1/5 - a film by John Boorman, with John Hurt

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 4h

October Linda Pastan 🍂

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 15h

Hey everyone! If you're looking to enjoy some classic horror this Halloween season, I recommend THE INNOCENTS. It turns 65 this year & it still remains one of the greatest horror movies of all time. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/one-and-done... This is open to free/paid subscribers!

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One-and-Done Horrors: The Innocents (1961)

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was a "what scared you as a kid" thing doing the rounds a week or two back. I didn't jump in, but my memory was jogged recently of how much Andrew Robinson as Scorpio in Dirty Harry scared and disturbed me as a kid when I saw that movie. An all timer performance.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The more blatantly full of hate racist Reform UK become the greater the backlash of generosity from the majority of decent Brits meme via The Unheard Majority

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My ambition is to have at least 3000 followers (free to sign up) and 300 people signed up to a tier at patreon.com/robinince by the end of the year - there will be at least one major podcast a week - currently Liberation Conversations - and lots of smaller ones like Science Gossip #podcast #science

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BJ ColanGIALLO @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am so, so close to paying off all of the insanely predatory loans I had to take out for this medically necessary procedure. I just made a massive payment that allowed me to refinance my interest rate and I am just 😭😭😭 www.gofundme.com/f/bj-needs-a...

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Donate to BJ Needs A New Mouth (Keep Her Yappin'), organized by Amelia Emberwing

If you're reading this, you're not new to the fact that eventually the "pass … Amelia Emberwing needs your support for BJ Needs A New Mouth (Keep Her Yappin')

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Marc Edward Heuck @meheuck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As we're 2 weeks away from THE DEVILS return, and learning of the departure of the WB studio team that helped make it possible, it's a good time to repost my history of the film in America, with its edits, suppression, and return to availability. projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2026/06/disp...

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Dispensing THE DEVILS

In the first full week of May 2026, around the 7th & 8th , all manner of news events were taking place. Hantavirus had been found on a crui...

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You don’t have to sign up or pay for a tier - this important conversation on the culture of abuse , the lies made up about rape victims , and much more - is freely available for all AND I really encourage men to listen - @luciaoc.bsky.social is an important voice www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

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Liberation Conversation with Lucia Osborne Crowley | Robin Ince

Lucia is an activist and author. Her work is one of the reasons I resigned from the Infinite Monkey Cage. The Lasting Harm is a remarkable

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh yeah. Season 1 was my favourite TV show in years.

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking about Edgar Ulmer's DETOUR, and kinda wishing that he'd gotten to adapt a Jim Thompson novel.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All 13 episodes of HOLLYWOOD are on Internet Archive if you’d like to celebrate #SilentMovieDay. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill wrote, directed, and produced this 1980 documentary series for Thames Television/ITV, featuring a score by maestro Carl Davis. archive.org/details/vol.... #FilmSky

The title card for Kevin Brownlow's HOLLYWOOD (1980)

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So... Reacher is a one man A-Team, eh? A bit more sophisticated and a lot more violent, but a one man A-Team all the same. ;-)

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/7 On Jim Thompson's birthday, here are a few of my favorite lines from his books. “I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.” “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”

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DVDBeaver @dvdbeaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller Blu-ray - Vincent Price, Preston Foster, John Ireland, Gene Evans, Barbara Britton, Reed Hadley, Ellen Drew @Criterion US: link.amazon/A0ckatyQ7 BONUS CAPTURES: www.patreon.com/dvdbeaver/po... OUR REVIEW: www.dvdbeaver.com/subsite/film...

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok, ok... I'm one episode into the Reacher series and you were all right, it's good.

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Bullitt release without @priscillapage.bsky.social would have been a inconceivable to me.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THE COUNCIL OF ELROND Elrond: "Speake nowe, who will carrye the ring to Mordor?" Frodo [lookinge for place on the table to putte hys iced coffee]

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New work alert! Features new commentary by @jasondashbailey.com & @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, new Schifrin appreciation by @neilkbrand.bsky.social, essays by @horrornonna.com & @priscillapage.bsky.social, new art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social, a host of archival extras, + new 4K restoration looks 😍

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just back from a few days away so Jason beat me to it, but I can confirm that he and Matt *nailed* this!

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David Kittredge @davidkittredge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The folks at @arrowvideo.bsky.social let me in their video store to talk about movies and take some discs. Big mistake! Huge! My checked bag returning from London was bulging with UHD awesomeness! Thank you Arrow Video!!!

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DAVID KITTREDGE | ARROW VIDEO STORE

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is one of the greatest honors of my life to say that I helped with @arrowvideo.bsky.social upcoming 4k release of BLUE VELVET. I wrote an essay to accompany the film. www.arrowfilms.com/p/blue-velve...

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Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD | Arrow Films

Shop Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD at Arrow Films. Free UK Delivery

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Upgrades

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David Kittredge @davidkittredge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sean Fennessy and the legendary Tracy Letts take an entire bonus episode of The Big Picture podcast to talk about BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL!

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The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Off to London for a work things this afternoon and evening.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tolkien to get memorial in Westminster Abbey, and it looks like it’s going to be beautiful: broadbent.studio/tolkeinmemor...?

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Tolkien Memorial — Broadbent Studio

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sure, I could tell you I'm watching some cool or weird old movie, but it's Sunday evening and I'm trying to wind down and old episodes of Time Team really do the trick.

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Congratulations to Rory Kinnear (and, to a lesser extent, me). His audiobook of Jesus Christ Kinski takes it into a new dimension and now it's up for an award. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

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Best Performance: Narrator Shortlist | The British Audio Awards 2026

The shortlist for the Best Performance: Narrator category at The British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies - organised by The Bookseller and The Stage

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 20/09/2026

New York friends! Don't miss this - world premiere of a super-fun 00s-set Australian slasher flick, written by one of my most bestest of besties @martynpedler.com Tickets here and more info: brooklynhorror2026.eventive.org/films/6aa803...

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

10 favourite films of 1979? In no particular order: Nosferatu The Vampyre Butch & Sundance: The Early Days Apocalypse Now Escape From Alcatraz Murder by Decree The Muppet Movie Mad Max Alien The Life of Brian + Castle of Cagliostro and The First Great Train Robbery would be 11 and 12

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alex is the best. The commissioner's dream: incredible writer, a pleasure to work with, and always on time. Passionate, funny, generous to a fault. Physical media folks, you want her on your team/discs. Festivals, you want her working with you. Agents, she'd be a gift of a client!

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do any of my friends happen to also know/have a contact for LA film critic Stephen Farber?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey everyone, the next piece in my One-and-Done Horrors series is up & it’s celebrating THE INNOCENTS (1961). It’s a film I love revisiting every fall & I think Deborah Kerr is just so incredible in it. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/one-and-done... Open to free/paid subscribers!

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One-and-Done Horrors: The Innocents (1961)

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE. (Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")

A brightly coloured manuscript image of an oval-shaped world containing stars or flowers and surrounded by feathers or leaves, with a hole in the middle and a particularly prominent florescence towards the top. Grotesque faces or masks illuminate the left, right and bottom edges.

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The discovery that sliding library ladders might be more affordable than I thought is very distracting....

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Drusilla Adeline (aka Sister Hyde) @sisterhyde.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

PRAY FOR US ALL New work with Clockwork/WB - second theatrical poster for KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Tix go on sale tomorrow.

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm rarely reading just one book at a time. Here's what's currently in the mix. #booksky

Pile of 5 books that I'm currently hopping between as the mood takes me. Becoming Ken Russell by Paul Sutton, The Lark Ascending by Richard King, Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite (re-read), The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote about THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER for my horror column. I feel as though this is one of the best pieces I have written this year. It is always an energizing experience to write about a film that I consider an all time great. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

a still image from The Night of the Hunter. Robert Mitchum is in silhouette in a bedroom with sharp angles pointing upward. It has both the feel and the temper of a sacred space, perhaps a church, perhaps a womb. Shelley Winters lay on the bed. He is about to do something bad to her

The Night of the Hunter’s legacy is intertwined with the Southern Gothic, and it may in fact be the primary film befitting the categorization, but when director Charles Laughton set out to make his feature directorial debut, the notion of the Southern Gothic was one that was unfamiliar to most audiences. Hunter is adapted from Davis Grubb’s 1953 novel of the same name, and the text is widely considered a modest example of a genre that contains such powerhouse writers as William Faulkner and Flannery O’Conner. It’s possible that Laughton may have been familiar with these titans of the South’s tortured conscious, because he initially sought out Tennessee-born writer James Agee to adapt the screenplay. Agee had previously found success with John Huston for The African Queen, but his prose for Hunter proved unwieldy. He turned in a 254 page behemoth that was reportedly magnificent, but it had to be trimmed down for the picture. Laughton eventually ended up ignoring the script and began carrying around the novel on-set, along with the Bible, which he was reading continuously at the time. Laughton’s position as a closeted gay man, but one who was fascinated by God and religion provokes ample contradictions in The Night of the Hunter; something like an intellectual who has convinced himself of the primacy of spirituality. The film is driven by a childlike wonder, and eager to indulge in fantastical fairy-tale imagery and morals, and he found the bedrock for Hunter’s gripping images of black and white silhouette, and light and shadow, by looking back to the heydey of silent film. A seance for the old language. During production, he sought out the films of D.W. Griffith in particular; a director whose own lineage with the American South is central and problematically racist. Laughton wanted to make a movie that would grab audiences by the collar and never let go. The trouble was that no one ever saw The Night of the Hunter when it eventually came out.....

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