Ian Nathan

Sunday time to catch up on your favorite podcast Writers on Film with @iannathan.bsky.social joining me to talk about Martin Scorsese and Kundun, After Hours, The Color of Money and The Irishman

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On Let's Talk with Giles Brown, after 10.00CET - @iannathan.bsky.social on 'Martin Scorsese: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)', and  @johnnicholraf.bsky.social with 'The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance'

Spent the day working through the assembly for The Thing Expanded with @iannathan.bsky.social - Terror is taking shape.

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Chuffed to bits to see Aliens Expanded receive a Best Documentary nomination at the Rondo Hatton awards.

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Go team!

#rondohattonawards

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Rondo-nominated masterpieces :)

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There will be countless tributes, and rightly so. But Hackman was about the work. So today, simply put on The French Connection, or The Conversation, or Unforgiven, or Superman, or The Royal Tenenbaums et al. Remind yourself what screen presence truly means.

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Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll.

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Get back to work.

Is there a Carry-On discourse?

Bleasdale on Bleasdale.

Understudy - moi.

Thank you - that means a lot. E.T. is just impossible to resist. I sat down to watch it for the book, notebook in hand, and was sobbing two minutes later. These films are in my bloodstream.

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.

Public service announcement.

If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!).

#aliens #aliensexpanded

Your Christmas movie is sorted.

The Spielbergian manifesto: New book looks at the many films of Steven Spielberg WPR’s “BETA” spoke with film critic Ian Nathan about the giant success of 1975's summer blockbuster, "Jaws," the groundbreaking cinematography of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and Steven Spiel...

A great interview on why Spielberg is not quite the director we think he is. #Spielberg

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What a pleasure, to wax lyrical about arguably Malick's most complete film and the lager context of the MCU (Malick's Cinematic Universe). BTW: John's new book is a marvel.

I am delighted to be talking all things Max with Iain Smith (producer of Fury Road) at tonight's special @TheActionFest screening of Mad Max 2 at the BFI Southbank.

FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.

Alert: my Quentin Tarantino book is available in the #BlackFriday groove for only £11.20.

Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy.

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To me, the Indy films never fit the bill of blockbuster. They are too knowingly a pastiche, too gloriously enriched by tradition, and (in terms of the original trilogy), a love song to physical stunts. #Spielberg

What he said. 🙏

I like many things about The Fabelmans, but it felt needless. Spielberg had poeticised his suburban childhood to immortal effect in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Don't wish away the potency of the fairy tale. #Spielberg

Raised By Spielberg He may not know it, but Steven Spielberg was my second dad

"So many entries in his storied canon are resident in my cerebral cortex like the replicant fail-safes of Blade Runner or Christopher Nolan’s implanted ideas in Inception."

A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment.

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The start of something big. Spielberg's second and third feature films set the manifesto for the greatest career in postwar cinema. Genre infused with a sense of luminous mystery. #spielberg

Currently deep in production.

It’s on mornings like these, after a couple of cups of coffee, that I wonder whether Marty McFly was modelled on Marty Scorsese. They are both fixated with the past.

Then I move on.

Book news.

A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025.

Without a doubt, our greatest living director.

From Thames & Hudson.

The Malick Hours: BADLANDS Writers on Film · Episode

New PODCAST first EPISODE
The Malick Hour ep. 1. “Badlands”
Tom Shone talks about Terrence Malick’s debut open.spotify.com/episode/1XWB...

Looking very handsome at the BFI bookshop.

Out now

Almost without my knowing, this became the most personal thing I have ever written. I guess, these films just do that to you.

#newbookrelease