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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 20/08/2025

This is such an important piece. What's happening to film criticism - and so quickly - is deeply saddening.

Extract from Robert Daniels' piece on the Locarno Film Festival, and on the fate of film criticism.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 18/08/2025

I get it. As a young man in 1980s West Bromwich, being teetotal made me an absolute freak of nature. As a student, it was even worse. Struggling with an alcohol-dominant culture crops up a lot in my memoir of that time.

"Whenever I watch someone getting drunk, I imagine all
those beautiful synapses falling silent, winking out like dying
stars. It’s the dreadful reminder that there is no separate soul,
there is only the brain and the body – because, right in front of
my eyes, this funny, charming person is disappearing, replaced
by an over-emoting cabbage, a pointless bag of conditioned
reflexes. "

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 18/08/2025

Siegfried in Fritz Lang's 1925 'Die Nibelungen'. The whole 6 plus hours is one long concatenation of haunting, beautiful shots. Image copyright from www.stummfilm-magazin.de/100-jahre-di...

Siegfried galloping on white charger through the mist.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 18/08/2025

Just before Charlton's big revelation. " "Damn you! Damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!"

Planet of the Apes. The revelation that astronaut Charlton hasn't been where he thought is presaged in this fabulously framed shot.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 12/08/2025

Not up to your standards, but I enjoy displaying daft signs in the car. No pics but I keep the word files.

stupid signs displayed in a Skoda Fabia VRS that encourage other losers to ring Chichester Ditrict Council for no good reason.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 12/08/2025

Those really are shit waxworks. If you're a fan of shit exhibitions, and you find yourself in the Pacific Northwest, USA, have a look at the Oregon Film Museum in Astoria. It's full of deeply unimpressive objects, such a license plate used in the film Kindergarten Cop

A label on a licence plate from a car used in the film Kindergarten Cop, as seen in the Oregon Film Museum.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 09/08/2025

Soar 3/3 See images or philipcliveminty.com/i-wroted-a-p... This bit begins: or better still colour me adorable, nerdy cool, (beyond the pale, reproductively speaking), and so on and so forth, whatever proves you right, #poetry #writing #poem #writingcommunity

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 09/08/2025

‪ Soar 2/3 (see images or visit philipcliveminty.com/i-wroted-a-p...) #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Poem 2/3: but lift forces
and aerofoil cross-sections
and stress factors
and lightweight alloys
and avionics,
these things are dull
and quite aside from this
to dwell on one thing is dull,
whereas
to be buffeted here and there,
on Alfred's topmost froth,
this is well-rounded
this is interesting,
and now by all means,
proceed to pathologise
the plane wing is inhumanly predictable
(you predictably say),
and poses fragile me no threat,

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 09/08/2025

Soar 1/3 I had a bash at a poem. (see images or visit philipcliveminty.com/i-wroted-a-p...) It begins: i am interested in plane wings which makes me boring, because interesting things are where you went on holiday with other people who went on holiday #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Poem: i am interested in plane wings
which makes me boring,
because interesting things are
where you went on holiday
with other people who went on holiday
that your toddler does things
that other toddlers do,
(only much better),
the normative responses
of someone you slept with,
your personal opinions
which uncannily mirror
those of your demographic,
all these things are interesting,

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 07/08/2025

Review of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Madly romantic, magnificently overdone, and more themes than a lisping dressmaker (I'm copyrighting that gag). Check it out: philipcliveminty.com/book-review-... #Literaturesky (is it literature??) #Booksky

Copy of Captain Corelli's Mandolin propped up on a bookcase, with Thor just about visible in the background.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 02/08/2025

1 of 2: Chapter 26 from Bleak House. What a great way to start the chapter and set the scene. 'Sallow face' conjures the sulphurous atmosphere of industrial London. #BleakHouse #CharlesDickens

Extract from Bleak House describing the arrival of morning.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 31/07/2025

Dickens makes me laugh. In Bleak House, milquetoast Mr. Snagsby is under the formidable thumb of Mrs Snagsby. In the two words, 'unchallengeable reality', the author tells us so much about the poor man's life. #BleakHouse #CharlesDickens

A brief extract from Dickens' Bleak House

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 04/07/2025

Hello, thanks for this. New to social media, so still figuring all this out. My novel 'The Best Nuisance I Can Be' is available on Amazon bit.ly/3I5ItW2 It's the frank memoirs of a working-class oddball at college, based on my 1980s diaries.

3D rendering of paperback book 'The Best Nuisance I Can Be', showing partially destroyed blue jumper.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 01/07/2025

Jean Brodie Pt 2: "...The warning [of Jean Brodie] is that fascism comes clothed in noble aspect and purpose. It can be magnificent as Jean Brodie’s profile, as uplifting as her eulogies on art and beauty." See v long review here: bit.ly/44tpo7o My first ever hashtags: #Literaturesky #Booksky

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · 01/07/2025

Miss Brodie Part1. Want to read a very long review of this clever, dense, layered, short novel that’s replete with moral ambiguities? Of course you don't! But it's here anyway: bit.ly/44tpo7o

Cover of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with library in background.

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