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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

35. Freud at his novelistic, weird, nightmarish best, creating this cold unsettling analysis of a society hurtling headlong to fascism while being dragged along thrilled by its psychoses.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

34. Wildly entertaining and strange - but also a fascinating play for our own time’s attitudes of justice, victimhood, and revenge. It seems to say revenge is impossible but somehow realised in the collectivity of theatre.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

33. Thrilling stuff - a hilarious domestic nightmare with all the crazy, repetitive comedy logic of dreams. It’s a play of the death drive where everyone is working towards universal death in the snow. The positivists will seek to prove the presence of Shakespeare but it is Shakespearean in spirit

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

34. 28 Years Later (2025), dir. Danny Boyle

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

32. This was one of those texts that you expect to be a curiosity and which turns out to be wonderful. It is interesting for Shakespeare, but also for its exploration of urban, popular politics, of the limits of sovereign power, and for the towering figure of More as a wise fool and exemplar.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

33. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), dir. Jane Schoenbrun

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

32. 28 Weeks Later (2007), dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

31. 28 Days Later (2002), dir. Danny Boyle

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

31. Another surprising Shakespeare play (beyond its notoriety). I was interested in its links to Arden of Faversham and a kind of carnivalesque tragedy of “complots” to use Shakespeare’s word. This was my first Arden 4…and it’s fine but no more than fine…

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

30. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021), dir. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

30. It’s certainly not his best but once again it completely gives the lie to the idea of “minor” Shakespeare. There’s a lot to love here: the voracious carnivalesque plebeian Wolsey, the hints of Cromwell emerging with the modern state, Queen Katharine’s vision, the cyclical sense of history

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

29. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2004), dir. Andrew Douglas

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

28. Faust – A German Folktale (1926), dir. F.W. Murnau

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

29. I’ve been reading Shakespeare’s histories roughly chronologically but I’m still catching up on editorial introductions. This one is so great (they all are), and it’s striking how much responses are still infected with a kind of moralism. Richard is a spirit of poetry, production, reshaping. Wow!

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

28. Vital, thrilling reading, not least because everything is just like the early 90s, only worse. Guattari offers experimental techniques and conceptual tools to combat the rise of fascism and its connection to the faltering Green movement. A great loss since then, tho, is innovative postmodern art

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

27. My Own Private Idaho (1991), dir. Gus Van Sant

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

26. It's Not Me (2024), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

25. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

24. Annette (2021), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

23. The Scarlet Letter (1926), dir. Victor Sjöström

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

22. Body Heat (1981), dir. Lawrence Kasdan

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

27. Shakespeare’s most repulsive play - an apology for a prissy, two-faced fascist - and yet still full of interest, not least in how he strains against (though never quite overcomes) his source material. It feels unsurprising he moves away from history after this…

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

21. Holy Motors (2012), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

20. A Page of Madness (1926), dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

19. Pierre or, the Ambiguities (2001), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

18. Do the Right Thing (1989), dir. Spike Lee

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

26. A mostly competent bit of work. There are a couple of scenes, though, which become something more, mostly concerned with the limits of sovereign power and the oath as speech act, which are characteristically Shakespearean concerns, as unsettling and fascinating as anything he wrote.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

17. Backrooms (2026), dir. Kane Parsons

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

16. BlacKkKlansman (2018), dir. Spike Lee

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

25. Like many of the “minor” plays, there’s so much to like here: the extended exploration of anger as affect, Richard of Gloucester’s soliloquy in 3.2 which presages the enormous satanic energy of the role in Richard III, the melancholy Henry VI, the strange jarring memories of medieval theatre

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

15. Ménilmontant (1926), dir. Dimitri Kirsanoff

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It’s astonishingly off the scale wonderful. I think with hindsight that lots of the critical hostility towards Leos Carax was just completely wrong, and it’s a little easier to see what he’s doing now. But it’s also just very very moving and beautiful

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

14. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

13. Sparrows (1926), dir. William Beaudine

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

12. Mauvais Sang (1986), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

24. The translation of Coineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire is absolutely wonderful - a real masterpiece. The rest of the book, I thought, was rather polite. I was sorry she didn’t develop the most interesting idea: that the work of translation was a reactivation of the violence of the poem.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

23. Once again, reading “minor” Shakespeare plays is just thrilling…there’s so much to like here: the carnivalesque interludes which punctuate the play, the spectacular, ritualistic violence, everything about Queen Margaret (Shakespeare’s great woman?)

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

11. Mare Nostrum (1926), dir. Rex Ingram

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

22. Very funny and very bleak and sometimes much too close to the bone.Nonetheless, it’s hard not to feel there’s something *deeply* reactionary about this - in its inability to think of the future, all we get is the implication of some sort of imaginary absent “authenticity” which is never defined.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

10. Boy Meets Girl (1984), dir. Leos Carax

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s so good - it has this amazing interest in time and rhythm and decay

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

9. Rose of Nevada (2025), dir. Mark Jenkin

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

What's the very best vegan Chinese cookbook?

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

it really really really really is - I'd like to write on it and am now itching to re-read it!

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

8. Five Easy Pieces (1970), dir. Bob Rafelson

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Particularly in the first three quarters of the book the chapters tend to be very short if that also helps!

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

21. I’ve read this very slowly over two months, and it’s extremely demanding, but also utterly wonderful. I was most surprised by its anti-realist strangeness and loved the carnivalesque but traumatised world of the theatre.

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

7. Vanishing Point (1971), dir. Richard C. Sarafian

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

6. Wanda (1970), dir. Barbara Loden

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tristan @svejky.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

20. It’s always a pleasure to read books of literary criticism from start to finish. Pinch offers particularly wonderful readings of Gaskell and Oliphant (whom I must read more) as novelists who raise questions about how realise might inform our ethical experience

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