Rick Boo-rin

A thread on the visual authenticity of Shane (1953) & cowboy/artist Joe De Yong, the film's technical advisor:

My girlfriend just said I was rubbish at describing her. She's got a cheek.

Dad was infuriated about someone blocking his drive yesterday but i think this was a one-off

Thank you, will check opening hours for tomorrow

Wish he would smile ruefully at me

Ah thanks! ❤️

He spends much of December ordering DVDs to give to his strange middle son but after that should have some availability

No but he accepts Switch

A Canterbury Tale (Powell and Pressburger, 1944) - The Glue Man The Glue Man is at it again. His singular MO? Finding women who are out late and pouring glue in their hair. Enter three amateur detectives: a Tommy, a Yank and the Land Girl who just became the 11" victim. Yet which other rotters commit their crimes to protect the marriages of absent soldiers, increase attendance at educational lectures, and facilitate God's present-day miracles? The Archers' tale of wartime pilgrims is languorous, magical and fantastically strange, alive with the ghosts and games of the Garden of England, and illuminated by a unique imagination. The "halo" at the train station may be the most exciting five seconds in British film. And remember, if you get caught pouring glue on someone, you were "pouring knowledge into people's heads... knowledge of our country and love of its beauty."

Did a blurb for LWL’s ‘Rotters’ special this year:

Lovely stuff. Night of the Hunter too 👌🏻

Me and B-Dubs rockin with the glue man www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Packing in the books and filums aside from this. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED the highlight but THE BROWNING VERSION (Asquith) and a MAN OF THE WEST rewatch right up there too.

Had a week off so went to see my dad for a bit. Really good, go visit him if you get a chance

I first watched it because Tony Benn cited it as a favourite

The scene at the BBC rarely cited as a key one but fuck me

Is that happening over there? As it happens, you are one of the few people i like more than I do Ben Whishaw

Blimp probably my absolute favourite but it’s those two in my top 20 odd

YES!

A Canterbury Tale as the P&P pick is the sign of A Real One

I bothered him once when he was waiting to see something at the BFI and he seemed very sweet and humble considering the size of his talent. Will always try to see anything he does on stage

Love this man so much i will even forgive a top knot

All very close to home, which usually highlights how utterly false the material rings, but just once in a long while does the opposite.

I think its great balancing act is underlined by how acerbically destructive Kym is – yet how seriously she treats AA, and everyone there. Her monologue takes what could be melodrama and does something with it that is never going to leave me.

Saw Rachel Getting Married (2008) last night. Will try to formulate more coherent thoughts than “this is the best film I have seen in a long while” but it is certainly that

One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/3

Fit

His Previous Movie Was One of the Best of 2021. Now He’s Done It Again. The glorious Norwegian movie that’s set to storm the (American) Oscars.

Great movie alert: Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, opening in theaters this weekend, follows a family in Oslo through multiple generations, w/ a never-better Stellan Skårsgard as the narcissistic patriarch & the luminous Reinate Reinsve as his depressed elder daughter. slate.com/culture/2025...

BBC really burying the lede there

Maybe my STORMIN CORBYN Metro cover from the 2017 election

Might pick up a copy