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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head.

Ray Liotta in a scene form Goodfellas, doing frantic cocaine deliveries with police helicopters buzzing over his head.

Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 16/07/2026

Simon and Simone have been hanging out with me for about 15 years. They nest on the chimney above. They hatch three chicks every spring, and bring down eggshell to let me know there are now more mouths to feed.

Simon and Simone, two gulls, peering through a kitchen window expecting some food.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Tarkovsky didn’t burn down an entire house for the climax of The Sacrifice, only to be told the single camera had jammed, and rebuild the entire house and burn it down again to get the shot, so you could tell me that AI “is inevitable”.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 28/05/2026

Love this list from @annebillson.bsky.social Especially as I'm currently planning reshoots including a corridor! Here's a couple of my faves that didn't make the list.

Still from last scene of John Frankenheimer's 'Seconds', a terrified Rock Hudson being wheeled down a hospital corridor and realising there's no seconds for him.

Still from climax of Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver', Di Nero's Travis Bickle goes gunning for the pimps.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap.

Jim Maclaine and the Stray Cats from 'Stardust'. They had a pretty good drummer.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 27/04/2026

“”where will you place your film on this spectrum, with Control at one end of the rainbow and Spontaneity on the other. The decision…will be different for every film maker, and for every film. But it is a choice that, from now on, and with increasing consequences, we are going to have to make."

Front cover of Walter Murch’s ‘Suddenly Something Clicked’.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 27/04/2026

Great post! My cine world would be early 60s Paris New Wave. Liberation, energy, dissonance, disillusion, jazz, smoky bars, women and men not getting each other at all and, therefore, sex.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 08/04/2026

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast.

Pscycho computer HAL and astronaut Dave from 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 31/03/2026

I found this photo in some article somewhere (on here?) and I can't stop looking at it. It's where I want to be.

A sublime cafe, interior lit warmly with old fashioned lamps, bright rear daylight through a window, lots of nice people reading books and drinking tea. Brecht poster and old framed photos on the walls.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 10/12/2025

Know anyone in the Brighton (UK) area who'd love to be a part of a funky film? Please spread the word. We're shooting in January and need supporting artists. (The contact email- secondskinoffice@gmail.com) Grateful if you can share it. Thanks.

Call out for extras for a feature film called 'Second Skin' , various dates in January, Brighton locations, minimum wage paid hourly. Contact email secondskinoffice@gmail.com.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 20/10/2025

Good call! And here's another perfect ending, like the close of 400 Blows it's a look to camera that clinches it.

Juliet Masina in 'Nights of Cabiria' looks to camera as she recovers from heart breaking treachery.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 30/09/2025

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 01/09/2025

Ooh, I've just remembered Bitter Moon.

Poster for Polanski's strange, sado-masochistic thriller Bitter Moon.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 21/05/2025

Actor's expression in a movie that stays with you the rest of your life.

Closing shot of 49 Blows. The boy hero stares into the camera, seeing his entire future in a blink. Shuddering moment in cinema.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 17/05/2025

Or Mick Jagger taken to the cleaners by Alain Delon.

World famous rock and rolll singer gets sad he's not as handsome as French actor, as demonstrated by English beauty Marianne Faithfull.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 29/03/2025

Recently set up a film company, had to get a logo. Reached out to some 'graphic designers' and was blitzed with AI pap. So asked my 5 year old son to do the lettering instead. Result.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 07/12/2024

That's a great cinema, though I think this may be the oldest still functioning cinema in England? Duke of Yorks, Brighton. Both of them now Picture House, not sure how independent that makes them now, but venerable histories to both of them.

Exterior shot of Duke of Yorks cinema Brighton, with giant can-can legs on the roof. Don't know why.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 06/12/2024

Me in the tepid bath of managed decline.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 03/12/2024

In Paris there is great art everywhere.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 30/11/2024

Profoundly religious, I believe in the Holy Trinity.

The Holy Trinity of garlic, ginger and chilli pepper.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 19/11/2024

Never done this before...Post you from a different era. Eek!

Pic of a young long haired punk wearing a tie for a wedding c.late 80s

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 27/10/2024

Dua Lipa has been taking notes.

Dua Lipa in concert wearing very similar gear to a Doctor Who sidekick half a century ago.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 25/10/2024

That is an outstanding museum, its contents engraved on my brain from a visit 6 years ago.

Lithograph by Munch of man in woman's arms.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 23/09/2024

Marshall McLuhan may beg to differ.

"The Medium is the Message" with a photo portrait of Marshall McLuhan.

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Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 29/05/2024

If you see this, post one of your favourite books of all time. The story of ordinary rebellion, of the simple act of asserting humanity when it's so much easier not to. The novel itself is the thing it describes, written secretly in war time Berlin. It shows us how to stay alive.

Front cover of novel by Hans Fallada, 'Alone in Berlin'.

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