Laura Venning

Thankful for Greta Gerwig A conversation with author Laura Venning

A good day to chat all things Greta Gerwig with @lauravenning.bsky.social, author of GRETA GERWIG: ICONS OF CINEMA, over on my Substack! marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/thankful-f...

I wrote a little book, pals. 'SOFIA COPPOLA: The Complete Unofficial Guide' is out today from @quercusbooks.bsky.social/ Greenfinch and in all good bookstores. I loved delving into Sofia's prettified & melancholy worlds. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...

Thank you so much JJ!

Slightly too many titters in the audience for my liking but i had a great time with it!

My first book, Icons of Cinema: Greta Gerwig, is out now! Tysm to gorgeous friends, family and colleagues for their support, as well as everyone from Studio Press/Bonnier Books 🎀 If you have a Greta girlie in your life you should get them a copy, it’s cute and well-researched! 🙂‍↕️ lnk.to/GretaGerwig

Idk what it says about me that I cried at Pillion and Hamnet left me cold,,,,,,that film has Most Acting disease

don’t forget to cross your arms over your chest before you lower yourself back down into the bog for the night

I had a brilliant conversation with Marc and Seth on @unwatchables.bsky.social about two very nasty Aussie films 🇦🇺 A perverse pleasure!!

Ready to preorder the small press short story collection with this cover RIGHT NOW.

Guys remember bronco henry

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Anthonie de Lorme, born in Tournai but mostly of Rotterdam, whose Laurenskerk he often painted. As here in 1669.

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

I'm stepping in last minute to introduce The Breakfast Club at BFI Southbank tomorrow evening, ironic for someone who was too much of a goody two-shoes to have ever been given detention at school 🏫🎒 Tickets here! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

hahaha fuck maybe that would motivate me to work out a bit more often!

No more showing off in public ever again lmao

I’ll never forget going to Fopp to ask if they had the second sight special edition of The Babadook behind the till and made the mistake of mentioning to the guy that I’d contributed an essay to it only to be met with a stony-faced “does anyone actually read those” 💀

🫠🫠🫠 I saw someone calling it a “national embarrassment”

Sorry but all these 21 year old guys moaning about not getting the LFF tickets they wanted……..

i don't think you see the gender discrepancy in film criticism quite as glaringly as you do in annual film festival coverage

Venice best bits (including Annie Ernaux irl!!) 🌅

100 Nights of Hero – first-look review Julia Jackman's adaptation of Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy.

i am also pro 100 nights of hero, the lovely fantastical romp from julia jackman, which @lauravenning.bsky.social did an excellent write-up of for LWLies lwlies.com/venice-film-...

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

A shame what's going on in cultural journalism right now. Too many of us have lost jobs at a time when this work is desperately needed. Without it, the less curious people will become, and the less motivated they will be to challenge the culture they're consuming. That could be by design right now.

I think Greta Gerwig's Little Women script is a pretty miraculous work of adaptation