James Dalrymple

MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT by Elizabeth Taylor

Black & white portrait of Elizabeth Taylor

#NYRBWomen26 page guide for MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT by Elizabeth Taylor

Starting book 3 of #NYRBWomen26 today! MRS PALFREY was listed in Robert McCrum's 2015 Guardian list as one of the one hundred best novels in English. I'll be reading one chapter a day. Anyone is welcome to join & feel free to read at whatever pace you wish. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 🧵 (1/3)

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yeah, I studied it at school, so it was kind of a formative novel for me!

Enjoying this a lot. Thanks to @russellpennypacker.bsky.social for the heads up!

Iron & Wine - Hen's Teeth
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I haven't seen that many, to be honest, but High Rise seemed such a missed opportunity

yeah. I really didn't like the Ben Wheatley one. It seemed like an open goal for a film but 🤷

I'd like Michael Haneke to come out of retirement and do Ballard. Maybe remake High Rise, or something like Running Wild or Cocaine Nights

He he. Taking one for the team!

So urgent. I was quite surprised by the hand-held camerawork that puts you right in the thick of it. Not something I would have associated with Panahi but really effective here

Just a few years for me, but I haven't seen as many films as you anyway. It's great to have a diary, though, as I watch enough to sometimes not to be sure if I've seen something or not (or what I thought about it)

A ★★★½ review of Mustang (2015) Mustang is a promising debut from director Deniz Gamze Ergüven that tells a semi-autobiographical story of young, orphaned sisters growing up in conservative rural Turkey. Comparisons have been made t...

Since you've shown me yours, I'll show you mine!😅

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Yes, I enjoyed that one. Looking forward to seeing Offside to compare

ah yeah? Thanks! I really love some of Iron & Wine's earlier albums (esp. Shepherd's Dog) but I'd lost track over the last few years

aw, thanks! Enjoying this very much, I have to say

We Are Together Again, by Bonnie "Prince" Billy 10 track album

Now listening (out yesterday):

Bonnie Prince Billy - We Are Together Again
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Must be a relief to finally complete it. Mine took 5 years and I never really wanted to see it ever again after that!

Offside is also in the collection, as is It Was Just an Accident. Will be watching them and others over the next couple of weeks 👍

Some of the absolute best crime neo-noirs in the last decade have come out of China - Black Coal Thin Ice, Ash is Purest White, and few others I have to see - and Only the River Flows is in the same style and of high quality.

Compared to some of Panahi's films, this is openly polemical, but no less thought-provoking than his more coded work. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was banned in Iran. Nerve-wracking! 3/3

Although the characters are mostly strangers, they are brought into contact via the systems of oppression that confront Iranian women. While much of the abuse they face is pushed to the background, the stakes feel palpably high throughout, as the women desperately seek help, refuge and escape. 2/3

The poster for Jafar Panahi's The Circle (2000)

First watch: The Circle (2000). Still working through Mubi's Jafar Panahi collection in chronological order and this is a belter. The film follows with great urgency a series of women in Tehran whose lives briefly intersect, finally coming full circle, back to the character in the first scene. 1/3

Thank you 🙏

Magic Rays of Light On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' app…

Many thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social for his immensely generous @sightsoundmag.bsky.social review of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of British Television; forgive me if I quote some phrases, but first here's the link to the Bloomsbury page for the book:

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I feel just like that monkey! 😆

I know! Filthy creatures 😆

I had a childhood friend whose grandparents lived in the countryside nearby (can't remember where exactly now). I do remember British soldiers in watchtowers, which left quite an impression

John Self novelizations of screenplays ‘The Hired Hand’ & ‘Night Moves’

“In 1965, soon after the novelist Beryl Bainbridge had given birth to their new daughter, her husband Alan Sharp went downstairs to get a book out of the car. He never came back.” ‘ @john-self.bsky.social ‘Night Moves’ screenwriter & novelist was subject of Bainnbridge’s 1970s novel ‘Sweet William’

My kids have been coughing over me all week and I've finally succumbed to the lurgies. Good excuse to stay in bed and read though 🤧📚

I'd love that. Will have to plan a trip. I've not been to Belfast since c.1991!

Poster for Lust for Gold. The title is in big gold letters set against a mountainous backdrop. The names of stars Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino in the sky above. Small unrecognisable human figures on the ground below

Lust for Gold (1949). Preposterously plotted, bizarrely constructed western, with some truly bad acting and terrible lines: “I shook off the shroud of fear the rattler had thrown over me.” But there’s a fun sort of oddball quality about it in a WTF is going on now kind of way