Peter Clinch

Very much looking forward to this!

I find increasingly that Reichardt is a director who demands and rewards rewatches of her films. Her subversion of familiar forms is so subtle that all preconceptions are slowly dismantled. There’s always more going on than you think….

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

#Chabruary has generated a few morceaux this week.

Finally got around to watching this on the Criterion channel, and I can confirm it’s a very cool cockle-warmer.

Reminder to self: need to get back in the noir groove, and this bunch of NYC beauties will be great to revisit.

A silly moment when his drink reversed back into his glass;was just so surprising the audience gasped…

Switching countries on MUBI is a joy, and the Criterion Channel is a must. I’ll be a-Chabroling there soon

My favourite first watch at last week's Slapstick festival was this gem. Buster Keaton with sound, in French, but with comic inventiveness and timing as sharp as his silent heyday. Thank you for treating us with it
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*Reichardt

I completely agree about the way this lodges in the mind and grows. First Cow has a similar impact, though the symbolism is more defined. Reichart is a genius.

After today I can safely say that I have learnt all I know about The Vamp and The Flapper from Z & S Fitzgerald and now also @pamhutch.bsky.social .

Many thanks!

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Very much enjoying your dry wit, thank you!

Ah, just before I bought a baseball cap to hide the tonsure, I see

I completely agree - this was my film of the festival so far, and a wonderfully-informed introduction.

I very much enjoyed your avuncular introductions today and I look forward to more of the same tomorrow please.

I feel I may have diverted from the serious business at hand, namely to roll eyes repeatedly at S. Bartlett and his partner in crime. I decided not to breach the SMH firewall to find out more, doubtless another failure of virility, because I really didn’t fancy it.

I’m of the age when I’m more worried about pissing on my jeans

#Chabruary gloom is on hold as I attend this. I may even laugh a bit.

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and others...

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🚨 ONE WEEK til Slapstick Festival is back for 5 days of hilarity in Bristol (Wed 4 - Sun 8 February)!

With 33 events across Watershed, Bristol Beacon, Bristol Megascreen, and St George's Bristol covering over a century of screen comedy, there's something for everyone via the link below 👇

Pastoral opening scenes yield to an atrocious act of callousness - an obsessive will to punish drives the plot. The protagonist inveigles himself into the loathed and repulsive villain's nest. A bland absence of empathy, an aura of rippling misanthropy, no relief. I loved it.

#Chabruary2026 #3

Winter is definitely the time for Chabrol; there’s a bleakness and austerity about these films that I didn’t recall.

Apparently somewhat indebted to The Talented Mr Ripley. I can see Why (as it were), as there is what seems to be typical misanthropy in the execution, but it isn’t clear until the end that her character is able to exert control; with Ripley that is clear from the start.

Hitchcock has the jagged tones of Herrmann, Chabrol defaults to sinister chamber music. It's all about the quotidian, the unarticulated, yet she knows he knows she knows... Adultery is mundane, yet it unhinges the complacency of the framework that validates it. Chillingly subversive.

#Chabruary #2

Erotic , seemingly about love, but in 1968 the theme is power. Power exacted by the bourgeoisie (Audran at her haughtiest, Trintignant the shit) over all around them. Lovers are toys, friendships are tossed aside, feelings of others are barely acknowledged. Something has to give.

#Chabruary #1

My snail-like progress through world cinema continues, with extensions from Jan to #Japannum2026 and #Barbstannum2026. Additions this month are #Chabruary and #Silent2026. Other background obsessions also continuing slowly…. nothing can go wrong now.

Yum, I shall be rewatching during #Chabruary or #Marchabrol

I started off thinking “yeah, well ok”, then the more I watched it, the better it became. Thank you for pointing it out!

YouTube video by Salvage Operation South Bank Show - Sly & Robbie

RIP Sly Dunbar. Here's a lovely edition of the South Bank Show all about the wonderful Sly and Robbie. A few people were asking to see it, so I've uploaded it to YouTube and I'll leave it there until Monday. Hopefully it'll get a proper repeat soon.
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RIP Sly. You took me to a better place.

7" of Ballistic Dub by The Revolutionaries (uncredited) on Island label. Released in 1976. Produced by Jo Jo Hoo Kim.

Very shocked to hear that Sly Dunbar died earlier today.

Sly was at the forefront of reggae music's development and innovation for decades. His extraordinary drumming on this dub is a personal favourite.

youtu.be/1sAqYgPghGY?...

RIP Sly 🙏

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