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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 5h

as one star fades (Cruise), another emerges (Pattinson)

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 19h

the person responsible for casting CROSSFIRE (1947) clearly had a sense of humour.

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A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL: It’s rare that you get filmmakers to talk so candidly about a failure as deep as EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. But something wonderful happens here - you understand the ephemeral nature of art, and how ambition, talent, and skill just sometimes doesn’t get it done. Fantastic doc.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2026 world-premieres 50m+ 1 FATHERLAND (Pawlikowski) 2 EIGHT BRIDGES (Benning) 3 PROJECT HAIL MARY (Lord & Miller) 4 DIGGER (González Iñárritu) 🆕 👇 5 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (Sawasawa) 6 THE WEIGHT (McKinley) 🆕

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rock once blunted scissors, now paper wraps him.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

can't wait until we can say who/what Tom Cruise is playing in DIGGER.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

plagiarists, this is all these people are

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there will, one day quite soon, be a book written about the comically cackhanded, thuddingly tin-eared critical reception of DIGGER.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nobel Literature 2026. the fix is in.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DIGGER. big surprise! went in with very low expectations (Sunderland multiplex Friday night, biggest room, near-full). not many laughs, but otherwise exceeded all expectations. ambitious, original, bizarre.... I'm now entirely bemused that the film, and Cruise, are getting so many negative reviews.

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Digger

ALT: Digger

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one week to the Nobel Literature Prize announcement. current Ladbrokes odds: 10/1 Can Xue 14/1 Haruki Murakami 16/1 Gerald Murnane, Thomas Pynchon 20/1 Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, Cristina Rivera Garcia, Michel Houellebecq, Lidia Jorge, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Enrique Vila-Matas 22/1 bar

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not buying this unless the popcorn kernels come to life and try to escape my esophagus.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

some semi-unguarded thoughts on contemporary cinephilia, film-festivals, film-criticism and their intersections (or otherwise). www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews...

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

one huge take-away from that José Giovanni retro at @sansebastianfestival.com this month: François de Roubaix was, if not a genius, then certainly a marvel. In tears now listening to this, the main theme from BIRDS OF PREY (Le Rapace), 1968: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIO3...

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Le rapace (Bande originale du film "Le rapace")

YouTube video by Los Incas - Topic

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

aka THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE (and many other variations). under any title, peak Peak District!

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HOPE [6/10] 156m?! FFS. Every scene and sequence at least twice as long as it should be. And towards the end the realisation dawns that this is only part one! There's a reason why for decades such alien/monster B-pictures were usually less than 90m, never more than 120. #Cannes HYPE, more like.

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Offbeat crime caper with Keach and Forrest as blue-collar guys caught up in a heist that goes south. There's a madcap energy to it that is at times a bit wearing, but the ending - a shootout that happens in a condemned building while it is being demolished by wrecking ball - is fantastic.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

watching the lousy ROCKY III on hotel TV and wondering if there's even been a greater disparity in cinema history between the quality of a performance (Mr T) and the quality of the film in which it appears.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

L: Krzysztof Komeda, outstanding and influential composer of European film scores. Accidental death aged 37 in 1969. R: François de Roubaix, outstanding and influential composer of European film scores. Accidental death aged 36 in 1975.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

L: British cinema of the 1970s R: British cinema of the 2020s

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The List @thelistuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Skinny, along with its sister magazines Fest and Gnaw, has been saved after the visual arts organisation and charity Outer Spaces purchased shares in Radge Media CIC.

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The Skinny finds funding to secure future

Charity Outer Spaces, a visual arts organisation, acquired shares of The Skinny’s parent company Radge Media CIC, allowing its doors to stay open

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 *favourite* British films THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Powell and Pressburger) A CANTERBURY TALE (them again!) THE ELEPHANT MAN (Lynch) WATER WRACKETS (Greenaway) ROBINSON IN SPACE (Keiller) then: Frenzy; United 93; The Third Man; The Shout; Penda's Fen (TV); Distant Voices Still Lives

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (2026)

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Delon, Belmondo, Ventura, Gabin

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my final @sansebastianfestival.com top 4 1 THE GYPSY (Le Gitan. Giovanni 1975) 👇 2 BIRDS OF PREY (Le Rapace. Giovanni 1968) 3 CLASSE TOUS RISQUES (The Big Risk. Sautet 1960) 4 LA SCOUMOUNE (The Pariah. Giovanni 1972)

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the ideal short to show before NAZA: Michael Heindl's six-minute SPRING WILL NOT BE TELEVISED (2020).

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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ooh this is gonna be good, i guess a mouchette is like a vampire or something

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Burleigh, 1977." photo: Dan Merkel

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my selections/contributions: James Benning's casting a glance Robert Benton's BAD COMPANY Patrick Keiller's ROBINSON IN SPACE Sarah Maldoror's SAMBIZANGA Jonathan Perel's TOPONYMY

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

L: Alan White, Yes drummer, died 26th May 2022 R: Alan White, Oasis drummer, born 26th May 1972

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my top discovery of San Sebastian's José Giovanni retro so far is the picture I saw tonight, BIRDS OF PREY (Le Rapace; 1968), a politically-charged thriller set in 1934 Mexico. Outstanding trump-card is the reliably great Lino Ventura, front-and-centre throughout as a grizzled, stoic hitman-for-hire

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

looks like Kai Wegner's disastrous tenure as mayor of Berlin will soon be over. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the initial "enigmatic" ad-campaign for the Rafelson/Monkees film HEAD, making no mention of the Monkees or that HEAD was even a film. Instead it prominently featured images of (future big-deal literary agent) John Brockman..... who was himself in charge of the campaign. Self-promotion!

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Michael Moorcock THE FINAL PROGRAMME Colin Forbes AVALANCHE EXPRESS John Cheever THE SWIMMER Dick Francis DEAD CERT other examples of well-known (and reasonably prolific) writers, who have only ever had one cinema-film based on any of their work?

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Joan Allen has done some television in the last decade (including ZERO DAY last year)... but no films at all since ROOM back in 2015. ¿Que pasa?

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

somewhat low-key considering whose grave it is.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(probable) Sunderland fan Joseph Conrad's favourite moment from last night.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

includes the Greek documentary MEGARA (winner of two international awards!) which I wrote about for Sight and Sound's "Lost and Found" column in 2022.

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

new Paul Anderson picture! 75min! (wonder if it will be left off his filmographies like his previous documentary JUNUN [2015, 54min].)

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Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

screen-debutant Polli Leuner only has a few scenes (as "Refugee Girl") in Fatih Akin's AMRUM (2025) but makes them all count. A face to remember, and name to watch.

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