Gareth Negus

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliation

Two years since the Hamas attacks that saw many hostages taken, we're screening the powerful documentary Holding Liat (15), that follows one family's attempts to help their missing loved ones. Here, the director talks about the film, which 9 October at 7.30pm.
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YouTube video by VHS Video vault Film 86 location report - Absolute Beginners

Here's a blast from the past... Ahead of our screenings of Absolute Beginners (15) on Sunday 12 and Tuesday 14 October, a set report from Film '86. Patsy Kensit, James Fox, Eddie O'Connell and David Bowie are among the cast of Julien Temple's musical, part of our Cinema Rediscovered season.

This was in the Observer today
Worth a read

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK:

“Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Letter from the NHS, as described in the post.

Here's an appointment letter my wife received from the NHS. Date letter sent: 1 October. Date of appointment: 1 October. Date received: 4 October. Oh, and they want 48 hours notice if you can't make it. Great work.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski Exclusive: poll asked voters to rank parties on how favourably they felt about them, with strong support in capital and among younger voters The Greens are viewed more favourably than any other party in London and among younger voters, polling produced for the party has shown, with its leader, Zack Polanski, saying this showed they were “on track” to supplant Labour. The YouGov poll, carried out to coincide with the Greens’ ongoing annual conference in Bournemouth, asked voters in England to rank the five main parties in order of how favourably they felt about them, rather than the usual metric of which they planned to vote for. Continue reading...

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

here is the actual piece, for enjoyment of the comparison:

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god the things I was protected from all those years by having a locked account on Twitter. I am *outraged*.

Wait, that wasn't the lyric?

It's true, harassing genocide survivors by repeatedly deleting their accounts, suspending them, and marking them as spam doesn't change their minds about coming back to this site to try and raise money to keep their children alive. It does cause an extraordinary amount of suffering, though.

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

‘Nobody can occupy your imagination’: From Ground Zero’s producer on documenting his native Palestine Rashid Masharawi, who produced the anthology of 22 short films that was Palestine’s official entry to the Academy Awards, has remarkable optimism about the future of Gaza

“It’s very important to make the films for life, for tomorrow – to make it with hope.” Rashid Masharawi interviewed about From Ground Zero (12A), his anthology of new films by Palestinian filmmakers. Showing on Thursday 2 October as part of the Cheltenham Film Festival; book at wottoncinema.com!

If you’d like to celebrate #SilentMovieDay, all 13 episodes of HOLLYWOOD are on Internet Archive.

Kevin Brownlow and David Gill wrote, directed, and produced this 1980 documentary series for Thames Television/ITV, featuring a score by maestro Carl Davis.

Watch: https//archive.org... #FilmSky

the funniest joke you’ll hear involved with the Bonesaw Fringe

Opinion | Probably Starmer hopes, come election day, voters now abandoning Labour will return in order to keep out Farage. But Biden and Harris thought much the same about Trump last year – and look where that got them

🖋 Patrick Cockburn

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Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

Dennis the Menace Fan Club badges and wallet.

I already carry an ID card, thank you.

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When I heard Reform's plans to retroactively rescind indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK I thought about this poem.

ILR is the legal status that gives many immigrants (who don’t yet have citizenship), the right to permanently live, study and work in the UK.

Satire is definitely dying if this is considered news, and he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today a) because he is no longer funny on purpose; b) no one will work with him because of his views; c) there's only one Father Ted and the late Dermot Morgan is not available.

OMG!

Yes.

Sergei Eisenstein's legendary Battleship Potemkin is back in cinemas for its centenary, with a score by the Pet Shop Boys. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a contemporary cinematic experience.