Jamie

What I'm enjoying most about revisiting these Ealing comedies is how they tread a line between serious crime drama and comedy. You could remake any of them without gags, as gritty reboot grim film noir, and they'd still work – because the thriller plots are fundamentally good.

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Lost Silent Films: Wuthering Heights (1920) Silent Sundays: It's All Forgotten Now

For this week’s Silent Sundays post I look at the production, critical reaction, and legacy of the first adaptation of Emily Brontë’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS, A.V. Bramble’s 1920 adaptation that is now considered lost.

You can now stream MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA on the Eye Player, with a score by Leo Geyer and Richard Bossons derived from the original music for the film organised by Vertov. player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/man...

Prince Harry formally relinquishing his 'biggest shame' medal with a single tear and a salute

[Jackass, but Jonny Knoxville and all his pals are draculas, renfields, igors etc]

Hi! I'm Jonny Knoxville, and welcome to Dracass *transforms into bat, files at speed into mechanism designed to slap his little bat balls with a flyswatter*

I think it was coming out of Ravenous (1999), finding a film that spoke to me in the dark, absurd language I didn't know I had longed for as a yoot made me giddy with excitement

A 'gothic horror' made by a bank manager who calls all women - no matter their age - girls and has never seen tits in real life

Dragging my butt to the theatre for the longed-for resurrection of gothic cinema only for Nosferatu (2024) to be long-ass hot garbage that annoyed the fuck out of me, fooled again like a rube

Fleischerei by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin - filthy loot press Perfect Bound // 4×6, 146pgs “Fleischerei examines how consciously and intentionally we can adopt the obsessions of others, how willful our abandoning of our own will can be, and how persistent we mus...

Colleague who inspired Fleischerei left the company 🥲
Anyway, read Fleischerei.

Fleischerei by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin - filthy loot press share.google/A66DFNOqdIR6...

I have two copies 👌🏻 One on Kindle and a physical copy 📚 Click on Jamie's post below and you'll find links to grab yourself one too. Go on! You know you wanna 😏😊🙏🏼🖤

Thanks, Al, you beautiful human 🖤

Quite. My experience in the last couple of years has been slow at times, but everyone has been lovely and trying to make things work. Very grateful, too.

Eminently treatable which is good news. Hope you're keeping your spirits up.

Oof. That had to sting.

This Saturday, it'll be a year since my book was released. Currently, I'm on 49 copies sold (and very grateful for every single one).

But also, if between now and Saturday you're the person buying the 52nd copy (a book a week average!), just know I will think you're very special, a prize indeed 👇🏻

Making yourself an obscene publication one tat at a time haha

Good grief Al haha. Amazed that's actually a GIF.

5 star review: "I have no idea what is happening in this entire book and I love it more than anything."

Often, trying too hard to understand a book means resisting the experience of art. Thank you, izzyipee, for this review of The Wingspan of Severed Hands, available from Weirdpunk Books weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/the-...

Every child needs to hear this, and remember it, as a teen, as an adult, when they are very old.

Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson

Finally got around to this and it's unsurprisingly very good and recommended. It's not just here that @raynewman.bsky.social is stretching creatively. From previews of his next collection I have enjoyed, things are only going to get more weird and unsettling.

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of HIS BEAUTIFUL HANDS being published. This was by far the most difficult project I've ever worked on and it's sunk straight into relative obscurity (only eleven ratings and one review on Goodreads) - but it's the book I'm most proud to have worked on.

Mary miraculously emerges from the river after a deadly car crash

The ghoul appears in Mary’s car window

Strong noir vibes as the sunlight coming through the gaps in a latticed ceilings make prison-like patterns on Mary’s dress

The lead ghoul menacingly arises in the river

Wouldn’t quite say it’s a masterpiece but Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962) is terrific. Candace Hilligloss is superb as the enigmatic and remote lead, and the cinematography is ace

Guess I'm gonna have to watch Small Prophets, huh?

10 Great Film Scores By Female Composers Note: This was originally written in 2018 and published on the now-defunct Film School Rejects website. Sadly, we're eight years on and not a lot has changed. If there’s one element of filmmaking tha...

The website I originally wrote this piece on female composers is now gone, so I decided to put it back up on my blog - enjoy! #filmsky

Steve Massa and I are guests on the latest podcast episode of "Harold Lloyd: the Man in the Glasses". We talk about Lloyd's initial years of starring in comedy shorts and figuring out how to be a screen comedian.
Find the podcast where you get podcasts or click open.spotify.com/episode/5b2b...

YouTube video by a bagel ''I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face'' on The Jack Paar Show

Talk of Jim Henson on here has me revisiting three of the absolute best minutes of television out there: Jim and Jane Henson and early Muppets on Jack Paar in 1963

youtu.be/yRuO-4HBX0w

Forthcoming events by the author of Tales of the Suburbs — John Grindrod.

It’s a month until Tales of the Suburbs is published. And I have loads of events lined up… www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events

What a fucking dork

Sentence from a Harmony Korine interview: As he walked through the South Beach offices of EDGLRD (pronounced edgelord despite the vOWel efficiencies) on a recent afternoon, Korine demonstrated how he is looking to reach for his 90's rebel-boy rep, only with late-2020's tools.

What's that? Oh, nothing, just the saddest sentence in the history of the English language

A Slightly Faster Sunrise Kevin Brownlow mailed me an item from “Variety” when I was beginning my research on silent film projection and filming speeds. What struck me is that it was yet another clue that silent era filmmakers...

Here’s the post about the running speed for SUNRISE, something Kevin Brownlow told me about many years ago. silentfilmmusic.com/murnau-sunri...