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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak" - Epictetus (c.50-c.135 AD)

The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Been quiet for a while, enjoying the sound of tennis courts in the summer, but thinking about this classic use of simple comedy sound, the slo-mo Clouseau attack, which fans of the films will know well. There is a time and a place for everything, and this is it...

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The Return of the Pink Panther - Cato Fight.

YouTube video by Michael Eklund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Have you checked out our #deliaderbyshireday #podcast? Here’s 2025 volunteer Charlie asking Mark Ayres about material in the #deliaderbyshire #archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social 🔊🔊 listen to the 5 episodes, 30 mins each, on your favourite podcast platform. @heritagefunduk.bake.social supported

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Voting in free, fair, and open elections is not merely your right, nor even your patriotic duty - though, it is both of these things - but, in a world of authoritarian strongmen, dictators, and democratic backsliders, voting is an act of resistance…🇬🇧

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Keep Reform out of local government (and don't forget your photo ID if you're voting today)

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Latest FITOR newsletter listens to The Shout, the astonishing 1978 film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It's a short essay I wrote for the sleevenotes of the soundtrack, released last year on Buried Treasure records.

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The Shout (Skolimowski, 1978)

The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978) [This essay was originally published as CD sleevenotes for Rupert Hine’s soundtrack for the film, released by Buried...

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"One can look at seeing; one can't hear hearing". Marcel Duchamp, 1914.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

from the audio-visual wonder that is the Sesame Street archives. There's a bit of me that would dearly like to research and map the audio and visual creativity of Sesame Street animations and shorts

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

SESAME STREET: LIMBO (early 70s) Also known as 'Nobody', this Jim Henson creation consisted of two eyes and a mouth made of string, with a voice provided by New York DJ 'Rosko' Mercer. One of my earliest TV memories, Limbo scared the pants off me when I was 3 or 4.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I'm experimenting with a longer form screen sound newsletter on Buttondown (I'm hearing dubious things about Substack). My first piece is available to read here, and if you like it you can subscribe. The formatting is basic - not sure if I'll be able to add audio, but learning as I go...

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The Invisible Filmstrip

Every now and again, the French teacher at my school would click a Tricolore cassette tape into a chunky red tape recorder and inform the class that we were...

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"In the same way as an effect is built out of the pieces of film by the act of montage, so will little portions of sound be built up into new and strange noise. The process of short-cutting in visual images will be paralleled in the mixing of sounds" (Paul Rotha, 'The Film Till Now', 1931)

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A soundtrack to love? Peter Strickland's 2012 Berberian Sound Studio is a film sound nerd's dreamfilm. It's stunning soundtrack was done by Broadcast, one of the best, and most underrated, British bands of the 21st century. If you like the sound of Giallo, Morricone, and chiff chaffs, have a listen.

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Berberian Sound Studio, by Broadcast

39 track album

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I saw this earlier this week. Wasn't getting my hopes up, but LOVED it. Has reinvigorated a slight obsession with him that makes me feel young again. Just the *slightest* disappointment there wasn't more on the overdubbing & music. But really not enough to spoil its utter joie de vie.

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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Richard Linklater transports viewers back to the Paris and the Cannes of 1960, in his charming tribute to Jean-Luc Godard (mind: he occasionally betrays the spirit of the late French filmmaker) In cinemas for the third weekend tomorrow: dmovies.org/2025/05/17/n...

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Nouvelle Vague - DMovies

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

for anyone in the Bishop area, this will be a treat

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today's recommended soundtrack from the other room - The Third Man. Not just Anton Karas's famous zither, but huge chunks of film audio, still all mixed together. On Qobuz, because it's more ethical than Spotify, who I have abandoned. Coming soon: Film in the Other Room on Substack.

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Open Qobuz

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Wonderful release out today on Buried Treasure. I had the pleasure of writing a short essay for the CD sleevenotes too.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The soundtrack to one of my favourite films, The Shout. Finally released 47 years later on Buried Treasure. Includes fetching Alan Bates badge, which I shall sport for the winter season. Plus an essay in the sleeve notes, what I wrote myself. #theshout #soundtracks #filmsound #electronicmusic

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

yes, this is what I suggest in my sleevenotes to The Shout, ost, available to order from Friday on Buried Treasure. Nothing to do with Lulu.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It's coming... includes a short essay by yours truly in the sleevenotes. Be careful what you wish for.

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Turning Circle @turningcircle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Anyone in Cumbria area, Suzy Mangion will be at Full of Noises on Saturday night, screening/playing The Music of Uncertain Lives and having a talk with the audience too.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 9/9 #filmsound 📽️Watery laundry sounds become music to the ears, a waltz whirls with the washing, and for a moment or two everything shimmers in a twin-tub electric ballroom.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 8/9 #filmsound 📽️It’s all idealised and precarious. The piped-music is part of an entrepreneurial fantasy, one that primps the winter-grey suburban streets, the grim realities of racism, of inequality, lost opportunity and unhappy families.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 7/9 📽️But it’s a fragile fantasy, built on mirrors and tricks. Jaffrey’s Thatcherite Pakistani businessman publicly dances with his fur-coated white mistress, unaware his nephew Omar is screwing ex-National Front Johnny (Day-Lewis) in the back room behind a one-way mirror.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 6/9 #filmsound 📽️At the grand opening, music drifts out from speakers into the now mirrored, muralled and neon-signed laundrette, transfigured into an improbable ballroom where Saeed Jaffrey and Shirley Anne Field dance to the synthified muzak of Waldteufel’s Skater’s Waltz.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 5/9 📽️ This transformation of washing machine music mirrors the film's dreams, and ironies. It focuses on Omar’s transformation of a rundown laundrette into ‘Powders’ - a palace of dreams, of neon fantasies, built on immigrant determination in Thatcher’s Britain.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 4/9 #filmsound 📽️ It is transformative music, taking everyday sounds and turning them into a score, using some of the alchemy more commonly associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop style.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 3/9 This memorable motif uses bubble noises, synths & sounds to create a general impression of washing machines that don’t actually sound like real washing machines, or even sound library recordings of them. They are a musical, dream version of washing machines. #filmsound 📽️

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 2/9 I think of this motif as the film’s ‘theme’ tune. The score was composed & produced by the team of Stanley Myers & a young Hans Zimmer, under the pseudonym Ludus Tonalis. The actual full ‘theme’ version, of which this snippet is only a part, isn’t too interesting.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Frears, 1985) An unusual film from the heyday of Film on Four, immersed in realism, that uses certain elements to escape those trappings. The bubble & electric whirl, swish swoosh of washing machines comprises an important musical motif. 1/9 #filmsound 📽️

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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]

YouTube video by Unseen Trailers

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Happy Delia Derbyshire Day! On this day Dr. Who was broadcast on the BBC for the first time, and a theme like no other was first transmitted into homes and hearts, written by Ron Grainer, but transformed (arranged doesn't really cut it) but Derbyshire at the Radiophonic Workshop.

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Turning Circle @turningcircle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

tomorrow, 2-4pm, Manchester Central Library. FREE. Suzy Mangion as part of @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social

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Turning Circle @turningcircle.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Suzy Mangion has a new piece this weekend to celebrate Delia Derbyshire Day. All about randomness. @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Despite the name Film in the Other Room, I'm interested in more than just films. TV, videos, art.Anything that catches my attention audio-visually. More one for curios & history than a music-for-the-movies sort of mind. I have huge affection for the Near and Far aesthetic, and I know I'm not alone.

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Turning Circle @turningcircle.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This episode of the Delia Derbyshire Day Podcast has Suzy Mangion and David Vorhaus (of White Noise fame) talking about all things Delia Derbyshire. @delia.bsky.social

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Creativity - Delia Derbyshire's approaches

Podcast Episode · Delia Derbyshire Day podcast 2025 · 30/10/2025 · 25m

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"We all had the same sinking feeling. John Williams, The Lord of the Rings, Hans Zimmer, more John Williams, Chariots of Fire, yet more John Williams. We’ve got Classic FM for that soft-soap stuff, thank you very much. Yet Sweet defied us all, combining a cineaste’s enthusiasm with academic depth."

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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Just finished the second episode of this. If you loved Neil's BBC4 documentaries then you'll love these. Like those he takes songs apart to show you how they work and what they are doing. Fascinating to a music dope like me. It all happens alongside some very enjoyable chats with guests.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

really sad to hear this. I have very low expectations for Edith Bowman taking the slot. Her taste & shows really don't sit well with mine. Much more in the dramatic "movie music" mode beloved by many but little loved by me.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The Man Ray show at the Metropolitan Museum is absolutely essential, and huge (the only show of exclusively his work I've ever seen?). He was decades ahead of his time in so many areas, especially his films, which experimental filmmakers were copping ideas from 40 years later, and still are today.

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Great new podcast [and I'll be in episode 2]

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

thrilling new release from @buriedtreasure.bsky.social - the OST of THE SHOUT, after all these years. I've contributed a short essay to the sleevenotes, as a professional film listener. Can't wait to set this on the turntable. Don't forget to put wax in your ears!

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

pet hate (I have so many)... new 'official' trailers for re-released classics where some noggin decides to 'update' with a new, 'contemporary sounding' soundtrack, usually discarding the influential, important, and often bloody good or classic, original soundtrack that is so important.

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LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD - Official Trailer - 55th Anniversary Edition

YouTube video by StudiocanalUK

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

on Bandcamp Friday it's nice to treat myself to a good soundtrack. Today it's Mark Jenkin's mesmerising drone score to his own film BAIT. One of the most interesting filmmakers working the UK for absolutely years, bold and creative and doing their own thing. @invadarecords.bsky.social

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I wonder, what is best way to view a film to benefits the filmmakers the most? I little understand the economics of how the money filters through and to whom, but have experience about how it works in the music industry. Cinema viewing? Pay per view stream? DVD?Or does it make any difference at all?

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

📣Artists announcement! Suzy Mangion & Andrea Pazos are our artists for DD Day 2025 Commission 2 (of 3) 🎥🎵 ‌ We are so looking forward to what Delia inspires this time! 🤓 ‌ With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

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The Film in the Other Room @theotherroom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Big - exciting - news - watch this space. So highly recommended.

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