@iannathan
Author, presenter, filmmaker. Out now: documentary Aliens Expanded, The Legend of Mad Max, and Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker. In production on The Thing Expanded. Writing about Martin Scorsese. Watch me on Classic Movies on Sky Arts
Who was originally approached to play R.J. MacReady in John Carpenter’s masterpiece The Thing?
In this exclusive clip from our latest episode (listen wherever you get your podcasts) @iannathan.bsky.social –writer/director of the forthcoming documentary ‘The Thing Expanded’ – reveals all 🎧
Coming soon to the Rogue Commentary podcast thing:
@iannathan.bsky.social, writer and director of ‘The Thing Expanded’, talks all things ‘The Thing’ 🎧
Listen wherever you get your podcasts and pre-order ‘The Thing Expanded’ at TheThingExpanded.com
Here is the final trailer for The Thing Expanded (60 second cutdown version! - Check out the full trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDIa...)
Pleased with how the edits came out!
This one is almost cooked. @iannathan.bsky.social
Sunday time to catch up on your favorite podcast Writers on Film with @iannathan.bsky.social joining me to talk about Martin Scorsese and Kundun, After Hours, The Color of Money and The Irishman
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On Let's Talk with Giles Brown, after 10.00CET - @iannathan.bsky.social on 'Martin Scorsese: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)', and @johnnicholraf.bsky.social with 'The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance'
Spent the day working through the assembly for The Thing Expanded with @iannathan.bsky.social - Terror is taking shape.
@davidweiner.bsky.social @joshuahweiss.bsky.social @james-evans.bsky.social
Chuffed to bits to see Aliens Expanded receive a Best Documentary nomination at the Rondo Hatton awards.
@iannathan.bsky.social
Go team!
#rondohattonawards
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Rondo-nominated masterpieces :)
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There will be countless tributes, and rightly so. But Hackman was about the work. So today, simply put on The French Connection, or The Conversation, or Unforgiven, or Superman, or The Royal Tenenbaums et al. Remind yourself what screen presence truly means.
Limited time deal on Amazon - down to £16.61.
Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll.
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Get back to work.
Is there a Carry-On discourse?
Bleasdale on Bleasdale.
Understudy - moi.
Thank you - that means a lot. E.T. is just impossible to resist. I sat down to watch it for the book, notebook in hand, and was sobbing two minutes later. These films are in my bloodstream.
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Public service announcement.
If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!).
#aliens #aliensexpanded
Your Christmas movie is sorted.
A great interview on why Spielberg is not quite the director we think he is. #Spielberg
www.wpr.org/culture/stev...
What a pleasure, to wax lyrical about arguably Malick's most complete film and the lager context of the MCU (Malick's Cinematic Universe). BTW: John's new book is a marvel.
I am delighted to be talking all things Max with Iain Smith (producer of Fury Road) at tonight's special @TheActionFest screening of Mad Max 2 at the BFI Southbank.
FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.
Alert: my Quentin Tarantino book is available in the #BlackFriday groove for only £11.20.
Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy.
www.amazon.co.uk/Quentin-Tara...
To me, the Indy films never fit the bill of blockbuster. They are too knowingly a pastiche, too gloriously enriched by tradition, and (in terms of the original trilogy), a love song to physical stunts. #Spielberg
What he said. 🙏
I like many things about The Fabelmans, but it felt needless. Spielberg had poeticised his suburban childhood to immortal effect in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Don't wish away the potency of the fairy tale. #Spielberg
"So many entries in his storied canon are resident in my cerebral cortex like the replicant fail-safes of Blade Runner or Christopher Nolan’s implanted ideas in Inception."
A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment.
open.substack.com/pub/iannatha...
The start of something big. Spielberg's second and third feature films set the manifesto for the greatest career in postwar cinema. Genre infused with a sense of luminous mystery. #spielberg
Currently deep in production.
It’s on mornings like these, after a couple of cups of coffee, that I wonder whether Marty McFly was modelled on Marty Scorsese. They are both fixated with the past.
Then I move on.
Book news.
A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025.
Without a doubt, our greatest living director.
From Thames & Hudson.
