Hayley Scanlon

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.

This is essentially what people think “post-editing AI translation” jobs are, instead of the reality which is “redo the translation from scratch and get paid less for it”

Ken Watanabe speaks about his role in this exclusive featurette from Kokuho, Japan's official selection for the 98th Academy Awards 🇯🇵

Now playing in select theaters, expanding nationwide in 2026.

Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."

No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".

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#TheAshes #FilmNoir #Ashes2025 #Ashes

Rewatched THE MEDIUM which in a just world would be held in similiar regard with all yer big name A24/NEON horror titles. A deeply harrowing crisis of faith with a possession that actually FEELS like a depressive breakdown.

#bestfilminlondontoday Nov 21 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films “One of the great movies about a writer” Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Kinuyo Tanaka’s first masterpiece ETERNAL BREASTS 1955 in BFI Southbank Melodrama season capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/11/capi...

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

Fruits of Her Labour: Supermarket Woman - Rio Cinema Now Playing

I think it's sold out currently, but I'll be introducing this screening of Juzo Itami's Supermarket Woman at the Rio later today

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Photo taken at the Neues Museum in Berlin (which luckily has elevators!). It shows lots of stairs both left and right and several floors with people walking up. Some windows at the top.

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?

When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.

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“‘There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,’ said the restaurant manager.”

Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Classmates (あゝ同期の桜, Sadao Nakajima, 1967) A young man gradually resigns himself to his fate as a kamikaze pilot in Sadao Nakajima’s melancholy wartime drama.

Classmates (あゝ同期の桜, Sadao Nakajima, 1967)

and there's an animated series too

Masako's Story Impatience

Masako's Story
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It's bad for pedestrians too. The other day, there was a car parked on the side of the road with its lights on full, so I couldn't see at all if anything was coming past it towards me as I was crossing. It's doubly dangerous now you can't hear some cars either.

One of the most vital, and challenging, directors of the Japanese New Wave - our release of the mammoth 9-film boxset of Nagisa Oshima, RADICAL JAPAN: CINEMA AND STATE, is out now.

Despite some minor delays due to high demand and a late stock delivery, orders are shipping now.

Japanese Slang Explanation: 文鎮化

sumi-e ink drawing accurately reflecting the title

'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai

Love it for Amazon that they apparently think all these women are the same person.

My kids start sentences in one language and end in another. I hope school doesn’t shrink their joyous, noisy worlds | Shadi Khan Saif Maybe there’s room for something gentler: letting children know they don’t need to change any part of themselves to belong

This is quite lovely
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'Translating subtitles is like translating poetry' - The Korea Times Na Hong-jin’s “The Wailing”This is the last of a four-part series on the importance of translation in globalizing Korean culture....

"You have such restrictions on how you can do it, and if you want to express everything, you have to be really creative on how you do it,” said Paquet.

A blurb from an article from awhile back about subtitle translation! A great read:
www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/bo...

Paquet says translating subtitles is somewhere closer to translating poetry than novels.

“You have such a small space. In translating poetry you try to make it rhyme." (1/2)

Our November releases are out now!

Including a classic satire of Greek cinema, three wicked genre exploits from an unsung French stylist and our massive, nine-film set of a Japanese New Wave icon - available at both retailers and our online site radiancefilms.co.uk.

Screenshot of an email, with text reading: "Finally, in 1993, the film was finished and after some disastrous test audience screenings, Disney, who feared the film was too scary for young audiences, released The Nightmare Before Christmas under their Touchstone banner. It was a modest hit, earning $50 million on a $24 million budget, but it was soon forgotten. Or so everyone thought. Over time, Nightmare became a cultural phenomenon. Rediscovered on VHS and championed by fans (and Hot Topic merch), its popularity exploded by its 10th anniversary. Disney re-released it in 3D in 2006 under its main label, and today the film has grossed over $100 million worldwide."

We really need to break this habit of casually describing films as 'forgotten' and 'rediscovered'. Here's a cinema newsletter saying The Nightmare Before Christmas was "soon forgotten" and "rediscovered on VHS".

Harbin (하얼빈, Woo Min-ho, 2024) A frustrated revolutionary decides assassination is the only path to independence in Woo Min-ho’s tense exploration of the life of Ahn Jung-geun.

Screening today at the London Korean Film Festival - Harbin (하얼빈, Woo Min-ho, 2024)