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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A gentle and familiar start awaits me today at the London Film Festival. #FilmSky #LFF

Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Letterboxd #LastFourWatched #FilmSky Hmm, gave four stars to them all (for different reasons) - must be going soft 😀 Each has been rewarding and has stretched my experience in a good way - and that’s what it’s all about, I guess?

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The self-flagellating joy of a vicarious Stanwyck as she reinvents herself via her daughter is miraculous. The banal affectations of allaround her only serve to concentrate Stella's authenticity so she can be reborn in glimmering, glorious and uniquely proud Stanwyckian squalor. #Barbanuary2026 #3

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Steeped in traditional Japanese fable, capturing gruesome ambition and male violence; beautiful to watch, but also deeply troubling on the eye. Each male character is vile, goading others to unspeakable acts. Couldn't watch another film for a few days after digesting this. #Japanuary2026 #10

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

On Sky Arts this evening. I'm quite fancying it. If he did, he's got a few things to answer for.

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A Pygmalionesque plot echoed as Capra unveils Stanwyck's acting range. The highlight is the sexy scene of unrequited love in Graves’s apartment where her expressive acting is pitch-perfect. Marie Prevost (Sennett and Lubitsch alumnus) is a hoot, and her comic timing is wonderful. #Barbanuary #1

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

There's a vibe of other films of the era: Czech absurdism, a touch of Losey's Accident (or other early Pinter), maybe Godard's Weekend. More trenchant than any of those, with its unfiltered pacifism and unambiguous disgust at racism. Powerful, funny and unadulterated. #Japanuary2026 #8

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'm going to fit in a couple of BarbStans in amongst the Japanese glut before the month's out. Probably early ones, as I can nerdishly cross-refer to this incredibly detailed, as yet unfinished, biiography that's on my bookshelves:

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Here are two beauties from my primary school days (David Livingstone school, Thornton Heath). From the late 1960s.

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The jagged veins of post-war Hiroshima spill copious blood. Hand-held, random, with music that brings lives to screeching ends. Only Hirono, Eastwood-like, abides by the code. The thread of tension between Hirono, Yamamori and his chilling wife is gripping to the end. #Japanuary2026 #7

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

After a gourmet start to my inaugural Japanuary, this one felt like leftovers. Too much is going on, requiring a surfeit of disbelief suspension. Initially grounded in some real traumatic history, all descends to mysticism and sentimentality. Could have been so much less muddled. #Japanuary2026 #6

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Many Western echoes in such a distinctly Japanese film: Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, even Olivier in Marathon Man. But to transform the torture into a vengeful catharsis of deep-rooted origin, that is where the genius lies. #Japanuary Film 5

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A bout de souffle sans jouissance. Joy is solely destructive in this extraordinary effort, and its only viable syntax is untethered jazz. Brando begat Dean begat Belmondo…. who begat Kawachi. Without any moral shackles. #Japanuary2026 #4

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

There is huge economy of plot in this 1960 heist-noir, furiously anti-elitist despite its apparently staid setting. What seems superficially as if it could be a TV crime episode belies a steely and grim moral resolve. Its faux-civilised tone defines passive-aggression. Very fine. #Japanuary2026 3

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Multilayered, vital. Visually and thematically it moves from landscape to portrait mode, as the characters slowly discover social modi operandi that are unfamiliar to them. The camera's humanity transcends the aridly procedural to make a wonder of where we may arrive. #Japanuary2026 #2.

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A film about impotence (creative/sexual) captured through juddering hand-held shots, flecked with monochrome flashes of destructive light masquerading as power, mediated by gangland punk violence. The urban landscape holds nothing save a bleak yet beautiful death drive. #Japanuary2026 Film 1

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Peter Clinch @zipnolan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This beauty just arrived through the letter box - looks absolutely fantastic. @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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