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Am at the Portobello book festival today, talking - with others more eminent - about the great Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her epic series of galcier pictures.
1.30pm, library downstairs.
She's so inspiring
portobellobookfestival.com/2025/09/05/t...

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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

Great article
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

So Jane Fonda relaunches The Committee for the First Ammendment, formed in 1947 to defend American against the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
At 87 she's still a leading light.

Bye bye Amsterdam

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Today, Delft, the streets of Vermeer

Today

Amsterdam tomorrow, to the great Eye cinema museum.
Part of their big Tilda Swinton exhibition

Each time I met Cardinale, I wore a kilt. She liked men in kilts.

I loved Claudia Cardinale. She was dazzling, vivacious

A day in Toho heaven

Sheffield walk

Morning pre-dawn Sheffield. Just a few lights in hotel opposite me.
Wish one was blinking, like in a film noir

Heading to Sheffield. Delighted to be asked to speak at the Cinema For All 100 years celebration!
cinemaforall.org.uk

Behold the free speecher, who sacks anyone who dissents.
Bravo UK's Channel 4 TV which exposed hours of his lies last night.
This is not democracy; the media need to boldly show why

So much to protest against at the moment, so many people polticised for perhaps the first time.
So I'll recommend a book by my friend Dr Lynne Jones, child psychiatrist, WHO and UNICEF consultant.
It's about her decades of non-violent activism.
I met her during the siege of Sarajevo.
Inspiring.

The Cinematheque Francaise' beautiful new book on Orson Welles (in french only).
I've contributed a visual essay on his designs for Shakespeare films and plays - Chimes at Midnight, Macbeth, Othello etc
Honoured

Robinson and Farage’s ‘civil war’ narrative is warping voters’ minds. How is any government supposed to counter it? | John Harris Whatever the reality of Britain today, our social media feeds are full of anger, violence and disorder – and that’s the reality politicians must confront, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Packed, young audience at midday today in my local cinema for Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle.
One of most kinetic movies I've ever seen.
People who think cinema is dead or dying are often looking in the wrong places.
www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...

Berlin today

Bye bye Berlin

Working in Berlin next week, a city I've loved since 1989, when the wall was still up, when Potsdamer Platz was still empty.
The city has changed faster than I have. I'm always chasing it.

Delighted Hetan

Next year

Today, after more than 3 years of filming, writing, editing, I will complete the main creative work on the 16 hour The Story of Documentary Film. Lots more things to do on it, but 😄🤸🌅

Rewatched Andrei Tarkovsky's The Scarifice last night.
Thought it immaterial when I first saw it but, decades later, for me it digs much deeper.
This article on it is good: filmint.nu/tarkovskys-s...

Out of all the languages I know, Persian is the one that speaks directly to my soul and offers a new way of being | Shadi Khan Saif I’ve found metaphors that mirror my own journey, phrases that feel like home and poetry that speaks directly to the soul

Beautiful article about Persian/Farsi
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Loved Ordinary Decent Criminal

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