Neil Ramjee

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My pals at @vidiots.bsky.social created an interactive experience during the film breaking fakeout scene in their screening of Gremlins 2: The New Batch last weekend. It's even better than what I had hoped to do in 1990! 😁

In 2025, Hulk Hogan finally meets The Undertaker.

On this week’s playlist:

Deftones - my mind is a mountain
XTC - Complicated Game
tori amos - pretty good year
fred again & skepta - Victory Lap
Poor Creature - An Draighneán Donn

And the third was Gabriel Byrne’s calling card - DEFENCE OF THE REALM (1986) - and it was lovely to have the producer Lynda Myles present and curator Mark Cosgrove having a good ol’ chinwag with Bryne himself.
A knotty espionage that is very aware of its Le Carré leanings & feels prescient even now.

Day 2 of @cineredis.bsky.social was full of first time discoveries.
DEPRISA! DEPRISA! is a sorta Rohmer-adjacent x drama, with a hint of the dryness Bresson. A bit like BADLANDS, which is no bad thing.
THE WORKING GIRLS (1974) deffo comes from the Roger Corman stable but weirdly proto-feminist.

Three men sat down on chairs in front of a screen. One is holding a microphone interviewing the other two.

Tonight’s film is ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS on 35mm at Cinema Rediscovered at Watershed, Bristol.
On the intro, curator Mark Cosgrove, director Julien Temple and producer Stephen Woolley.
Plenty more to see this week @cineredis.bsky.social so do come and join the fun in unearthing some gems!

That is 1.5 million people who are dying of hunger.

I don’t know what else to say, except that this is a deliberate failure of humanity.

I saw a insta of him and his daughter hanging out with Chino Moreno on the latest UK tour. Didn’t even know he had a band!

I’ve been playing around with the new Apple IOS26. The ‘mixing’ on Apple Music is exceptional - it could really put some DJs out of a job - if you listen to one type dance of music.
Anyway. On hard rotation today.

A photos of Oliver Reed in a denim jacket and yellow ring T-shirt.

A picture of Cilla Black in a horrible wet-look sequin top.

A picture of Zippy from Rainbow

A picture of Roland Rat with sunglasses in one hand and a champagne glass (filled) in the other.

Runners up included:

A picture of Sweep the Puppet with his arms open wide

In Cronenburg’s THE SHROUDS, Vincent Cassell is a tech bro who has a virtual assistant based on his dead wife including emojified looks and an AI voice modelled from her speech.

It gave me pause for thought on the kind of virtual assistant I would want sending emails, booking Zooms, etc.
My choice:

A Ladybird easy-reading book but it's all spelled very weird, eg the easy of "easy-reeding" is two strange E letters, a backwards Z, then a y.

Incredible article about a bunch of children - now in their 50s and 60s - who were taught to read using a doomed alternate alphabet invented by a Tory MP www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A wonderful charmer.
That Britpop soundtrack is emblematic of the era. Kate Bekinsale is almost unrecognisable.

The films in this thread are ace.

Huh

Low-key excited for the new Sultana x Corbyn collab dropping soon.

Who’s coming to Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol?
Looking forward to screenings of PING PONG and the lunchtime talk on the history of film at Channel 4.
With so much on, it is worth anyone’s time to delve into something old or new to you. Get your passes now!

BBC faces questions over board member's links to Jewish Chronicle Robbie Gibb, who sits on BBC editorial standards committee, led consortium which saved paper, now facing backlash over claims it published fabricated articles

Impartiality at the BBC.
What a joke
www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-fac... Robbie Gibb: BBC faces questions over board member's links to Jewish Chronicle | Middle East Eye

Chief Rabbi says 'vile Jew-hatred at Glastonbury' a 'national shame' Sir Ephraim Mirvis hit out after Bob Vylan's controversial performance at Glastonbury was aired by BBC.

Personally, I'd reserve overheated rhetoric like "national shame" for our (and the international community's) failure to take action to halt systematic war crimes and the deliberate murder of starving civilians, not what some rappers said at a music festival.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chief rabbi says 'national shame' that BBC aired Bob Vylan Glastonbury chant Sir Ephraim Mirvis hit out after Bob Vylan's controversial performance at Glastonbury was aired by BBC.

The UK Chief Rabbi is just as bad as all the other propagandists.
“Death to the IDF” is a call to end a tyrannical, genocidal military regime.
But, of course, this chief knobhead spins it into anti-semitism as always.
Utter twat.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Culture > Music > News Rap song calling for death of Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid and Mia Khalifa 'tops charts in Israel' 'Every dog will get what's coming to them', the artists apparently rap

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John Lennon: "Give Peace a chance."

Rod Stewart: "Give Nigel Farage a chance."

Rod Stewart: Give Farage a chance.

Do you think I'm Fascist? #RodStewart #Glastonbury2025

Ergh. Deftones pulled out of Glasto!

Kinda bummed the BBC are cowards and won’t even screen the Kneecap gig through iPlayer.
‘we are a completely independent broadcaster’
Hahahahah.

I detest The 1975.
Whole band make tepid library music and their lead singer is a belle de jour.

An imagine of two people embracing in a kiss.

‘Too Much’ - a melodrama season is coming to the UK cinemas and festivals this autumn. Get the tissues out for new restorations of Douglas Sirk and loads of weepies.
I heard someone say they ‘love crying in a dark room because it’s a safe space to do so’, and I’m inclined to agree.

BBC Four - Storyville, Blue Box Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine.

There’s almost certainly a cabal of influence from Zionist Jews who are leading this charge - a theory I never would had entertained until recently.
I keep bleating on about BLUE BOX on iPlayer, another film which the algorithm and wider world keeps wanting to ignore. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Film Industry’s Cowardice on Palestine Threatens to Diminish the Value of Cinema Itself — Opinion Movies have no relevance if they turn away from reality, which is what the distribution struggles of "No Other Land" and Nadav Lapid's "Yes" suggest.

I’ve been thinking about the outright discrimination American distributors have shown towards films like No Other Land, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack and other titles, that have been unjustly exiled.
www.indiewire.com/features/com... The Film Industry's Cowardice on Palestine Diminishes Cinema Itself