Brian Davey

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my good pals and former video store colleagues, Reece and Bjorn, kindly invited me back on their podcast to talk about Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM (1999). Check it out 👇👇👇

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my good pals and former video store colleagues, Reece and Bjorn, kindly invited me back on their podcast to talk about Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM (1999). Check it out 👇👇👇

open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...

The Imagination is Currently Closed

Sigmund Freud in a letter to Stefan Zweig:

‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’

New writerly achievement unlocked (bought a copy of a lit journal I contributed to from a secondhand charity shop)

comfort viewing

I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm at a loss for something to watch, I'll generally throw on the B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? documentary

There's some wonderful Quote responses to that original post

Aki Kaurismäki on Terrence Malick: "The first one [Badlands] was OK. That was in the 1970s. After that they were Christian bullshit."

Same way everyone has to pretend to be afraid of clowns. I simply feel neutral about them

I feel like sitting in the middle seat on a aeroplane has supplanted the word "moist" as the most common thing people pretend to hate

Very moved by this sentence from an old obituary for Roger Shattuck:

"A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".

Imagine deciding that you needed to pay to read more of Howard Jaconson's arse dribblings

Where authors gossip, geek out and let off steam: 15 of the best literary Substacks More and more writers are publishing newsletters – but which are worth your time? From Margaret Atwood to Hanif Kureishi, George Saunders to Miranda July, here’s our guide to the best

A real rogues gallery of chancers in this list (apart from Mary Gaitskill, she's cool)

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MUSEUM HOURS (2012)... what a picture

Do you even know if Tintin is supposed to be his first name? Or is it his surname? What about Captain Haddock's first name?

fuck Mubi and their stupid statement. Cancelled my subscription today

I could easily be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. No problem

Very moved to learn that Sir Thomas Browne, author of Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial, coined the word "swaggy."

RIP Michael Roemer. Absolutely mind-blowing to consider that he made his first film in 1949. For context, THE THIRD MAN, ADAM'S RIB and WHITE HEAT were released that year. Hell, Jean-Pierre Melville made his debut in '49 too with LE SILENCE DE LA MER!

Postscript from Rivette's GANG OF FOUR

Jacques Rivette on ghosts:

YouTube video by Ingram Marshall - Topic Prelude - The Bay

The only Alcatraz I want to see on the timeline 🫡

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From Radu Jude's short film CARICATURANA, currently streaming on Mubi

God, I love cinema #kino

like you can sometimes intuit if a book was written by hand or by word processor, you can sometimes intuit that a filmmaker knows how to torrent

Holiday book haul

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