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Peter Clinch

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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" (Raymond Williams) Watching a lot of films this year, recovering lost time. Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/doublesqueeze

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So we had Breaking Away, American Graffiti, One False Move, Melvin and Howard, and um The Brady Bunch Movie. That last one was a hard survive after 8 prior hours. Breaking Away was by far my favourite of the lot. I'll be back for another one.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The old pod is still alive! Can't wait.... "Whirligig...." etc @rememberthispod.bsky.social
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bracing myself for another PCC Mystery marathon tonight; looking forward to whatever they throw at us. I’m a mere dot at the rear of the last survivors photo… will try to remember to get out there tomorrow morning.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Seriously, the annual Radiance subscription gives me more pleasure than I can articulate- last year’s Radical Japan boxset might be eclipsed by this one. #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Listening to the enjoyable Red & Black podcast from Locarno; excellently-capsuled history with depressing contemporary nuances, and more films to (re)discover, though I'd rather be in Switzerland. #Locarno79 #FilmSky www.locarnofestival.ch/press/press-...
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Following a very brief interaction with @andrewkelly.bsky.social at #cineredis26 and a cleanup of my library, I’m diving back into my Projections collection. Boorman fantastic stuff. #FilmSky #BookSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You think you’ve got the system beat, then you run out of paparazzi. Vivid restoration by M+ of a HK procedural with a twisty plot and too many competing (dis)loyalties to keep up with. It all seems labyrinthine and untangleable - then it ends. Breathless and engaging. #cineredis26 #9 #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Propagandic Boulting Brors war film that tells the story of pre-war ICE, uh Nazi, repression in Germany. Over-optimistic in its belief in the power of Christian goodness to see the country through. Some hard-hitting moments including a teenage rape and prison camp torture. #cineredis #8 #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Poetic parable played beautifully against the landscape of rural Morocco. I underappreciated it, as the deep historical context is sadly beyond my ken. The ritual insistence and the anti-materialist themes, however, are clear and I enjoyed it (Mirage, 1979). #cineredis26 #7 #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The petty childishness of people who are allegedly steering taste for serious cinemagoers, and their inability to migrate their obsessions to realrelationships is painfully funny. A clever pairing at #cineredis26 (film #6 for me) with Goodbye, Dragon Inn. #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Playful depiction of the vicissitudes of Indian student life, in an academic world that is cynical in its apportionment of honours. A strong sense of the resilience of youth, the joy associated with the pains of being tested, and a happy unpredictability of outcomes. #cineredis26 film #5 #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It is hard to convey the pleasure gleaned from watching a group of men at a urinal, a woman limping towards an unseen projectionist, or disparate people in a cinema with banks of empty seats. The lingering enables more on the screen in a way that is surprisingly sensuous. #cineredis26 #4 #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Austere, difficult, a room or rooms filled with recognisable characters distilled to their unlikeable essences. Some marvellous monochrome photography. On balance, though, I’d prefer to have Ed Norton and Penelope Cruz pop downstairs and propose group sex. #cineredis26 film#3 #FilmSky
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The intimacy and troubled familiarity of a close community, comfortable in its time-honoured relationships, now put under deep stress by impossible adult choices. Touching and harrowing, superficial and deep in equal measure, Burnett takes the simple and adds unbearable complexity. #cineredis26 #2
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Excellent nostalgic trip this lunchtime through 50 years of Artificial Eye / Curzon with @markcosgrove.bsky.social and Jake Garriock. Memories for me of what seems like endless months of being able to watch Celine and Julie Go Boating in rep, yet still come out baffled each time. #cineredis26
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The most barmy episode of Stingray ever made? Anything happens in every half hour. Like the dog that licks his own balls, Diabolik robs because he can. Eva wants him to. Zinko's plans to foil Diabolik crumble like Dastardly's efforts to win the Wacky Races. Beyond camp. #CineRedis26 film #1.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Excellent discussion this evening between @pamhutch.bsky.social , @markcosgrove.bsky.social and Cinema Ritrovato's Ehsan Khoshbakht on season curation and precious film preservation. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Disintegration", as it were. #cineredis26
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Reaky @reaky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Did I miss Beat Girl and Obsession?
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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The first day of Cinema Rediscovered 10 has arrived at @wshed.bsky.social 🎉 Get involved in the birthday fun via the link below #CineRedis26
Day 1 schedule of CineRedis26
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Heading to London for my first one of these. Insufficiently caffeined. Wife at home “having an early night”.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This really is a fascinating read; the cultural construction of postwar “Britishness”, and equally the establishment of a flawed ideology that is still appropriated in ways never intended by its architects.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Booked my pass and my hotel (Wetherspoons - only the best in W-S-M). Really looking forward to it, especially the Spanish noir, boxing and Ida Lupino strands.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Off to the NFT later for a double bill to provide an antidote to all that Giallo I've been consuming....
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Possibly not my finest week, but I enjoyed them within their parameters. Muriel Box does send me mixed messages sometimes (the others are more predictable fare...)
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#LetterboxdFriday My #LastFourWatched, largely inspired by @jacquiwine.bsky.social (1961 vintage).
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Absurdly excited to buy my pass for Cinema Rediscovered this July. Just finished the Curse of Queen Kelly (what a story), and itching to see the restoration. (Clarification: only one of the attached pictures features Gloria Swanson 😀) @cineredis.bsky.social @pamhutch.bsky.social
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! We've just unlocked our Trans Cinema issue from 2023, guest edited by poet Spencer Williams. It is now (and forever!) entirely free.
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Issue 120: Trans Cinema
June 2023
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Highly recommended talk in advance of Hippfest (or, for armchair cinephiles like me, Hippfest at home). If you want to see a beautiful Leni Riefenstahl on the slopes with a skiing goat, this is the place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tB... www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/hip...
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Looking forward to seeing Paul Fischer in conversation with @pamhutch.bsky.social tomorrow at Lewes Depot, followed by a screening of American Graffiti. That's a film I've not seen since 1973 or 1974 (eek!). Hoping Paul's book is a corrective to (admittedly enjoyable) Biskindian machismo!
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Ditto - looks like this is going to be a cracker! (hope I’ll be able to afford it) 😀
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#MARvynLeroy continues with a pre-code double-bill. Cagney as a wily con-man is upstaged by a great over-the-top turn from Ruth Donnelly. Then John Gilbert in an almost schizophrenic role is man of leisure-turned bootlegger, oddly distanced from the remaining cast. Marie Prevost is wonderful again.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
With #Chabruary now expired (but #Marchabrol activated) we move to #MARvynlLeroy , sampling the pre-code collection now on the Criterion channel. Three zingers already in the bank. Later in the month, #Silent2026 gets into full flow with the online portion of Hippfest. Who needs Easter?
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched Chabruary continues; diverting now into the first of a few Muriel Boxes.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Very much looking forward to this!
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Chabruary has generated a few morceaux this week.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Finally got around to watching this on the Criterion channel, and I can confirm it’s a very cool cockle-warmer.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Reminder to self: need to get back in the noir groove, and this bunch of NYC beauties will be great to revisit.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My favourite first watch at last week's Slapstick festival was this gem. Buster Keaton with sound, in French, but with comic inventiveness and timing as sharp as his silent heyday. Thank you for treating us with it @slapstickfest.bsky.social @theflyingeditor.bsky.social
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
After today I can safely say that I have learnt all I know about The Vamp and The Flapper from Z & S Fitzgerald and now also @pamhutch.bsky.social . Many thanks! @slapstickfest.bsky.social
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
#Chabruary gloom is on hold as I attend this. I may even laugh a bit. @andrewkelly.bsky.social @lucyportercomic.bsky.social @pamhutch.bsky.social @theflyingeditor.bsky.social and others... @slapstickfest.bsky.social‬
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Slapstick Festival @slapstickfest.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨 ONE WEEK til Slapstick Festival is back for 5 days of hilarity in Bristol (Wed 4 - Sun 8 February)! With 33 events across Watershed, Bristol Beacon, Bristol Megascreen, and St George's Bristol covering over a century of screen comedy, there's something for everyone via the link below 👇
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Pastoral opening scenes yield to an atrocious act of callousness - an obsessive will to punish drives the plot. The protagonist inveigles himself into the loathed and repulsive villain's nest. A bland absence of empathy, an aura of rippling misanthropy, no relief. I loved it. #Chabruary2026 #3
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Hitchcock has the jagged tones of Herrmann, Chabrol defaults to sinister chamber music. It's all about the quotidian, the unarticulated, yet she knows he knows she knows... Adultery is mundane, yet it unhinges the complacency of the framework that validates it. Chillingly subversive. #Chabruary #2
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Erotic , seemingly about love, but in 1968 the theme is power. Power exacted by the bourgeoisie (Audran at her haughtiest, Trintignant the shit) over all around them. Lovers are toys, friendships are tossed aside, feelings of others are barely acknowledged. Something has to give. #Chabruary #1
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
My snail-like progress through world cinema continues, with extensions from Jan to #Japannum2026 and #Barbstannum2026. Additions this month are #Chabruary and #Silent2026. Other background obsessions also continuing slowly…. nothing can go wrong now.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
RIP Sly Dunbar. Here's a lovely edition of the South Bank Show all about the wonderful Sly and Robbie. A few people were asking to see it, so I've uploaded it to YouTube and I'll leave it there until Monday. Hopefully it'll get a proper repeat soon. youtu.be/M-cuOdr6DpQ
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South Bank Show - Sly & Robbie
YouTube video by Salvage Operation
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House of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very shocked to hear that Sly Dunbar died earlier today. Sly was at the forefront of reggae music's development and innovation for decades. His extraordinary drumming on this dub is a personal favourite. youtu.be/1sAqYgPghGY?... RIP Sly 🙏 #reggae #reggaesky #musicsky #vinyl #vinylsky #slydunbar
7" of Ballistic Dub by The Revolutionaries (uncredited) on Island label. Released in 1976. Produced by Jo Jo Hoo Kim.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday Mainly #Barbanuary but #Japanuary continues to provide an astonishing range to this mangenue.
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Raw Nietzschean Stanwyck fucks a railwayman in a cargo train one day, and a randy executive in the ladies' room on another. Then she does his father, for advancement that ultimately proves to be hollow. The original end is better than the bowdlerised edition, but still too tame. #Barbanuary 2026 #5
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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A tough watch in our political climate. Stanwyck and Cooper both terrific, it nails the sickening manipulations of American politics with truth forever negotiable. The ending falls between the (teleo)logical and the sentimental: the schmaltz comes at us like a hanging curveball. #Barbanuary2026 #4
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