Ellen E Jones

Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless The problem with Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is not the mad casting or that it’s unfaithful to the novel; it’s that it isn’t true to the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love, writes Ner...

And the ever-excellent @ellenejones.bsky.social on why Wuthering Heights fails to capture the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love

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70sFilm Alert - May releases:
Hi Mom - @filmsradiance.bsky.social extras incl @aheartofgould.bsky.social, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, @ellenejones.bsky.social: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/hi-...
Lenny - @criterion.bsky.social also well appointed w/extras: www.criterion.com/films/29151-...

BBC Audio | Screenshot | The Older Woman Ellen and Mark look at what changes when the woman is older in a screen romance.

I talked to @ellenejones.bsky.social about older woman/younger man relationships in the cinema for BBC Screenshot. Haven't listened back to this yet, but have every confidence they have once again brilliantly edited it to make me sound smarter than I really am.

This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️

From devastating docu-drama The Voice of Hind Rajab to Dry Cleaning’s wry, surreal new album

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Picture of actress Jessie Buckley playing Agnes, William Shakespeare’s wife, crying as she watches a performance at the Globe theatre in new film Hamnet

Review of the Week: Hamnet

Chloé Zhao’s Bard drama with its powerhouse lead performance from Jessie Buckley is hotly tipped for success. But is it just a deluxe version of Shakespeare in Love? writes @ellenejones.bsky.social

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The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression, and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic @ellenejones.bsky.social

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Ellen E Jones introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

Here I am in @thenerve.news releasing a generation of young British and Irish actors from their Bond-age. None of us are free until we all are, baby ✌🏼🤪💋 www.thenerve.news/p/new-genera...

One weird aspect of the lockdown era that seems almost folkloric now; I, and a lot of people I knew, experienced months of extremely vivid dreams. Seem to remember one or two pieces speculating that strict, repetitive regimens affect human sleep in some way, and then no one mentioned it ever again.

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers Imitation of Life Official Trailer #1 - Alan Hale Movie (1934) HD

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @ellenejones.bsky.social introduces the original IMITATION OF LIFE (Stahl, 1934) in Melodrama season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMF...

Review of the Week: Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay). Screenshot of Jennifer Lawrence in the film at a party

Review of the week: Die My Love

Lynne Ramsay’s film featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence as an isolated young mother losing her mind is about much more than hormones and ‘mom guilt’, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social

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RADIANCE THE JAPANESE GODFATHER TRILOGY WORLD BLU-RAY PREMIERE AT THE DAWN OF THE 1970S, JAPAN IS AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER AND THE NAKAJIMA SYNDICATE EXPANDS ACROSS THE NATION. POLITICIANS AND CORPORATIONS SEEK THE GANG'S FAVOUR TO FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, BUT ITS LEADERS DISAGREE ABOUT WHETHER TO LEAVE THE OLD WAYS BEHIND. DIRECTED BY YAKUZA FILM SPECIALIST SADAO NAKAJIMA (THE RAPACIOUS JAIL BREAKER), THIS SPRAWLING EPIC IS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF JAPAN'S LARGEST CRIME SYNDICATE AND FEATURES AN ALL-STAR CAST INCLUDING TOSHIRO MIFUNE AND SONNY CHIBA. NEW INTERVIEW WITH WRITER KOJI TAKADA + APPRECIATION BY FILMMAKER KAZUYOSHI KUMAKIRI + ARCHIVAL INTERVIEW WITH SADAO NAKAJIMA + TRAILERS + BOOKLET FEATURING NEW AND ARCHIVAL WRITING & MORE LIMITED EDITION 3000 COPIES 155/50V13 Bluray Disc RADIANCE

If you like Japanese crime cinema, surely there’s no label on Earth more exciting than @filmsradiance.bsky.social right now.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Frankenstein Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the enduring appeal of Frankenstein.

I talked about Frankenstein with the very wonderful @ellenejones.bsky.social for BBC's latest Screenshot podcast. Always a pleasure, not least because - as usual - they cleverly edited it so I sound more intelligent & articulate than I really am.

Aww, I love this! Thank you, Andrew.

TONIGHT! Our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

“Cinema is liberation”: as more acclaimed films emerge from Palestine, why are many still fighting to reach an audience?
This year’s Oscars triumph for No Other Land should have been a watershed. But new titles still struggle to be seen. @ellenejones.bsky.social reports

Join us at The Garden Cinema this coming Monday, where I’ll be intro-ing BABYLON (1980) and in conversation afterwards, part of LRB Screen series www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

Next Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

Next Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...

BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, The Naked Civil Servant Mark and Ellen celebrate 50 years of the groundbreaking TV drama The Naked Civil Servant.

This is a really good programme 🙏🏾 Including the discussion contextualising this 1975 telefilm, describing how TV was more radical in the 1950s and 60s than we imagine, setting the stage for these later works (not just setting the stage sorry) @ellenejones.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Nerve roundtable: How can culture fight back in a turbulent world? Photo of Carole Cadwalladr, Ellen E Jones, Carol Vorderman and Stewart Lee at the Nerve launch event

How can culture fight back in a turbulent world?

The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee

IS THE NEW SPRINGSTEEN FILM FINAL PROOF THAT SPOTIFY KILLED THE MUSIC BIOPIC?

Did Spotify kill the music biopic?

In the age of streaming and social media, big Hollywood music bios like Scott Cooper's hymn to the Boss feel increasingly old-fashioned, writes @ellenejones.bsky.social

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Listening to the new episode of Screenshot on translation with @ellenejones.bsky.social & @kermodemovie.bsky.social. Reminded me of visiting a video rental shop in mid ‘90s, choosing a French movie, & being advised (in a whisper) by the employee that “it has subtitles”

Thank you, Chis Davies, clearly one of the smartest men on Bluesky right now! Here’s the @screenshotpod.bsky.social episode in question, if anyone wants to give it a listen (also on Spotify/ wherever else you get your pods) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Louise by George Hommel, 1927.

My Empire mag interv/w with David Jonsson is now live. If you’ve seen him in RYE LANE or ALIEN:ROMULUS or INDUSTRY or the upcoming Stephen King adap THE LONG WALK, you know what a talent he is. If you don’t know, get to know… www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...