Melanie Williams

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

Yeah, I think you're right - it just can't be made to catch fire and feel modern, no matter what trendy trappings they try to hang on it. True of young Alfred as well as young Winston.

Yes, there's a lot of that. To create contrast, Michael York really ups the roister-doistering Viking quotient too!

Askwith getting his end away and baby Ian McKellen getting his first go at an epic feels like a potted history of the next 5 decades of British film production.

If you think there’s nothing new to say about Wuthering Heights, you’d be wrong. #booksky 📚

Thank you, I'm glad to be a recruiting party for people to watch it 😊 You can only get it on Spanish DVD, rather weirdly.

I’m fascinated with how films fail and after reading this I really want to watch Alfred the Great.

A lot of people on social media like to point out that when people die the tributes are often accompanied by photos of them when they were young and beautiful (as opposed to old and beautiful). So let me just say that I’m posting this because it’s one of my favourite portraits full stop by one of the greatest ever British portrait photographers. And fuck off.

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

Wow, the actual Letraset set! I'm impressed

and a few from me too! (including the William Castle cover story)

‘A Difficult Film to Sell and a Difficult Film to Appreciate’: MGM’s Alfred the Great (1969) and the Challenges of Promoting Historical Epic in the Late-1960s MGM’s 1969 epic royal biopic Alfred the Great presents an illuminating case study for investigating film promotion, especially how to promote historical film, during the intense industrial and cult...

This article just published, open access - come for the David Hemmings personality coat-hangers, stay for my searingly insightful film promotion analysis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They made a date... 🗡️ with murder!

📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

Wow!

DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…

FUCK YEAH! cstonline.net/defending-th...

I am thrilled beyond compare! ❤️

1908 in cinema

why did the crab go to prison

crimes

One of my favourite first watches of this year. Newton is terrific, playing a cuckold who embarks on an elaborate, extended scheme to murder his usurper. Better than De Palma’s Obsession (1976), and arguably superior to Visconti’s (1943) too…

Legendary!

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

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we're surrounded by media all the time.
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?

Monday anthem just dropped 🎶 #oldhollywood #harrybelafonte #filmtok TikTok video by Turner Classic Movies

Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...

Still are massively hostile, I'd say - it hasn't shifted, just expanded. We are the OG Mickey Mousers

Contrasting headlines

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.

Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.

#TOTP