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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 6h

5 favourite Irish films The Dead (Huston) The Pier (Hurley) The Shamrock Handicap (Ford) Kisses (Daly) Angel (Jordan)

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 7h

#NowPlaying Leaning into the Ballardian dystopianism of Heathrow airport with some Hans Werner Henze

The cover of Hans Werne Henze’s symphonies 1-6

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The coolest people on the planet right now

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The best Shakespearean adaptation, a formal exercise in creating a simulacrum of a late-90s aesthetic, juste fine, and good enough to get me to buy a jazz album. #FilmSky

Film posters for Throne of Blood, Practical Magic 2, Juste and Illusion, Everbody Digs Bill Evans

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you’ e seen it? “Mine was.”

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just out of a rewatch of Throne of Blood. Incredible that Isuzu Yamada did this and Tokyo Twilight in the same year; the height of stylisation and the subtlest naturalism.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NowPlaying Just saw Bouncing Off the Satellites is 40 years old. Way to make me feel ancient. Very much associated with my own first Summer of love as a fresh faced vanilla kid in the big city. Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. We all braked for rainbows that summer. #MusicSky

The B-52s album Bouncing Off the Satellites

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Oh there's no LGR. First there is LGR, then you tell me there's no LGR. What next? No pavement? No shop?"

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Heading to London to meet up with my big sister for a cinema triple of Vincent Minnelli, William Klein and Claude Chabrol. #CinemaSunday

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Only three new films seen this week, Greta Lee sings Surabaya Johnny- I’m in! An interesting failure, and another one in the very long list of “the extraordinary lengths straight men will go to to not f**k each other” films. #FilmSky

Film posters for Late Fame, &Sons and The North

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is there a Sunday in the Park curse hovering over London? After Covid stopped Jake, then Ariana, now Jonathan? Did Seurat hate the English? Is he sending bad vibes from his grave?

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For a long time this picture of Wendell Berry was my computer screen saver. Sad to hear of his passing. A great novelist and clearly a mensch.

Wendell Berry with his feet on his desk, looking out of a window

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For fellow theatre queens (and P&P fans) picked up a charity shop copy of Valmouth, turned out to be signed by the cast and Sandy Wilson and Sir Robert f***ing Helpmann! Told the shop they’d underpriced and was happy to pay more but they said it was my lucky find. Indeed.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Saw a great Love’s Labour’s Lost yesterday, putting it into the list of plays I’ve seen 4 or more productions of- alongside, by frequency A Midsummer Night’s Dream As You Like It Twelfth Night Three Sisters Much Ado About Nothing The Master Builder Othello Macbeth Romeo & Juliet Measure for Measure

Shakespeare’s Globe production of Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s Love and Other Catastrophes.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice: Laurie Anderson Mark Eitzel Rickie Lee Jones Beth Orton Sinead O’Connor

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: Dead Can Dance The Orb Jane Siberry PJ Harvey Mark Eitzel Rickie Lee Jones Roseanne Cash Nitzer Ebb William Orbit The B52s

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A day late #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The best film performance ever that’s not given by Shelley Duvall, Cooper Hoffman being so gorgeous it’s embarrassing, an OK comedy with its heart in the right place, and I’ll evoke the Thumper doctrine and pass on the Almodovar. #FilmSky

Film posters for Brief Encounter, Bitter Christmas, I Want Your Sex, and Stop!That! Train!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes I say that Penda’s Fen is my favourite piece of art in any medium. That seems slightly ridiculous, but I think it still might be. First repeat since 1975, apparently. Worth checking out if you haven’t seen it. And be prepared to watch it a few times to allow it to start revealing itself.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

youtu.be/zgwkbipco2M In the list of all the many superb performances, do yourself a favour and check out this perfect adaptation. Anyway, another legend gone. Rest in peace, Tim Curry you Legend. (And if you can find The Shout line that up too!)

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"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)

YouTube video by Archive Media Vault

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For weeks me and my husband have been mystified what has been causing the garlic smell in our kitchen. We’ve looked under and behind the fridge, cleaned the oven, hoovered under the larder. Weeks. Only today did I consider the smell might be in coming from THE ACTUAL GARLIC. Being gay can be hard

Decorative garlic hanging
from a Belgian enamel kitchen tidy, alongside
a Marrimekko oven glove, red colander, Estonian wooden ladle.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The entire country is literally on fire. We have had 2000 extra deaths this summer, so far, there are no mitigation strategies in place to deal with this, our PM wants to drill more in the North Sea, and - oh my god a black man has the temerity to get a job at Cambridge!!!?

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Favourite films of the 1970s 1970 The Liberation of LB Jones 1971 The Boy Friend 1972 Cries and Whispers 1973 Electra Glide in Blue 1974 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1975 Jeanne Dielman …. 1976 Family Plot 1977 3 Women 1978 Girlfriends 1979 The Marriage of Maria Braun #FilmSky

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Favourite films of the 1990s: 1990 Close-Up 1991 Les Amants du Pont Neuf 1992 Passion Fish 1993 Three Colours Blue 1994 Satantango 1995 La Haine 1996 Irma Vep 1997 Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion 1998 The Last Days of Disco 1999 Magnolia #FilmSky

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Actually Tristan I can honestly say I’ve never wondered why the Romans were defeated in the Teutoburg forest. Not once.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Someone should bring back The Emotionist Group

Photo of two masked artists promoting an exhibition by The Emotionist Group in the 1930s. London, Chelsea

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

At the rather impressive Towner cinema

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Favourite films from the 1980s: 1980 The Return of the Secaucus 7 1981 Diva 1982 Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 1983 Local Hero 1984 The Company of Wolves 1985 Vagabond 1986 Parting Glances 1987 L’ami de Mon Amie 1988 Akira 1989 Slaves of New York #FilmSky

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Heading into town for a Kalatozov, Antonioni and Kieslowski triple bill. A bit of Gasparini for the train ride. #CinemaSunday #FilmSky #NowPlaying

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

At the 10.30 showing of The Summer Book and the Glenn Close gays are out in, well not exactly force, that would be too emphatic, but you get my drift. Or maybe they’re Anders Danielsen Lie gays. It’s so hard to tell these days.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So sad to hear the news about William Orbit. His “In the Realm of the Senses” concert at the Royal Festival Hall was amazing, one of those gigs that you know are going to be legendary while you’re still at it. Rest in peace.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/tv

Alan Arkin looking hot as fuck as Freud in The Seven Percent Solution

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

repost with your earliest childhood crush from film/tv

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If your equality impact assessment of a proposal is that a group could “face a disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault” as a result, the only decent response is to say, “obviously we have to bin this, we’re not monsters.” Instead the govt shrugged, showing they are, indeed, monsters.

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1. Moominsummer Madness : Tove Jansson

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ok. 1. Moominsummer Madness. Tove Jansson

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Patrick Stoakes @patrickstoakes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If I’d read this 15 years ago I’m not sure it would have registered too much with me. Now, as a devoted rescue cat host, I found this book to be terrifying and devastating.

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