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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 11/10/2026

This picture by Adnan Abidi seems to sum up 2026. A woman fighting disenfranchisement of Muslims in a country being ruled by a would-be autocrat who wants to make India into an ethno-nationalist state

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 11/10/2026

Werner Herzog is a bit of a hero of mine but this is almost hilarious in its egocentricism. He make Lotte Eisner’s death all about him, walking from Munich to Paris in the depth of winter and soon all he can think of is foot ointment and milk. Works best as a Confederacy of Dunces type novel.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 10/10/2026

My Dinner with Andre could’ve been an email

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 10/10/2026

Normal: Bob Odenkirk is always watchable and it has its moments but there’s an oily fascism to this kind of massacring violence. It isn’t sharp enough to be satirical and soon collapses into a series of inventive kills.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 10/10/2026

I wrote an essay for the Blu-ray release of Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens documentary John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, narrated by Chloe Sevigny

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 08/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: Allyson Nadia Field on the first black kiss on film at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 07/10/2026

Daughter graduated. In being an idiot.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 04/10/2026

I’m at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and watched last night Don Q Son of Zorro. I’m seriously thinking of taking up smoking so I can practice some of the tricks Fairbanks does with a ciggy. Surely Raiders of the Lost Ark was inspired by this film.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 02/10/2026

Try & explain today that one of the most popular 70/80s tv comedies had a theme song called “Suicide is Painless”; was set during the Korean War (but really Vietnam) & had an episode where the main character was traumatized after witnessing a woman kill her baby so the cries didn’t attract attention

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 02/10/2026

New episode of Writers on Film Samuel Bernstein talks Roddy MacDowall podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 30/09/2026

Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 29/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 28/09/2026

A few years ago. And not at all stoned.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 27/09/2026

Did no one notice that Rising Sun Connery is You Only Live Twice Connery with a beard?

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 25/09/2026

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026

I feel like my entire idea of cool and style is embodied completely by Harry Angel in Angel Heart.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026

Brand New WRITERS ON FILM Jon Spira talks Mike Hodges director of Get Carter, Flash Gordon, The Terminal Man and Morons from Outer Space podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026

DAU Natasha is a film of two halves. The first is a character portrait of a middle-aged canteen worker souring on life and looking for love. The second reveals how a police state brutalizes the vulnerable. Darkness comes in how the victim is Stockholmed into their own brutalization. Powerful.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 24/09/2026

Continuing my deep dive into DAU I watched DAU Degeneration which is not for the faint hearted. The casting of neo Nazis to play neo Nazis, the onscreen slaughter of a pig and the six hours of growing oppression is grueling. By the end I felt I was in the Institute and being experimented on

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 23/09/2026

The only democracy in the Middle East etc

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 21/09/2026

Happy 25th birthday to my daughter. She’s the fucking bane of my existence. Here she is trying to get me back on the booze when I’d only just quit the stuff and had the DTs.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 19/09/2026

Well this was a discovery. A mix of Nelson Algern and Jim Thompson while also its own thing

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 17/09/2026

New Writers on film for Orson Welles fans The Maverick in the Machine by Mark Edlitz podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 17/09/2026

Latest episode of Writers on Film Mark Edlitz Orson Welles and Journey to Fear podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 17/09/2026

I will never not love the fact that Samuel Beckett used to give Andre the Giant lifts to school

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 13/09/2026

My policy for people who send me an email and when I reply I get an out of office message

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 12/09/2026

My Golden Lion is NAZA www.timeout.com/movies/naza-...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 12/09/2026

Jeremy Thomas RIP He was a producer who made some of the most exciting cinema happen. Nic Roeg - Jonathan Glazer - Bernardo Bertolucci - David Cronenberg - Takashi Miike - Stephen Frears all had their projects shepherded to the public by Thomas.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 12/09/2026

Also I met some directors and film people. Barbara Kopple & Tony Rosario, Slavoj Zizek, Wim Wenders, Ilya Khrzhanovsky & Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 12/09/2026

I very much enjoyed my time at the Venice Film Festival. The lineup was thin this year but the friends and conversation was top notch

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