Tom Davidson

sounds like you'd love to pass the costs onto your tenants, if you ask me

actually a real quote, somehow (unless the Telegraph have been caught with a fake case study again)

sounds like you'd love to pass the costs onto your tenants, if you ask me

won't someone please think of the landlords!

‘There is supposed to be an esprit de corps between artistic colleagues.’
I’m sure Paul Dano agrees.

I'll always prefer physical over streaming but one of the benefits used to be the special features and supplements. It'd be a shame if MUBI stepped away from that.

It is.

No problem at all, happy to read that you liked it.

this was my film school:

RIP special features on DVDs we never knew how good we had it

celebrating International Women’s Day the right way…!

just trying to imagine the discourse if someone like Ryan Gosling or Timothee Chalamet (or even Leo) dropped something this interesting and weird and fucked up

did Cruise even know what he was making?

Watch, then listen to our episode on it with @alexvont.bsky.social... pod.fo/e/2b3777

Can confirm this is still a masterpiece, and I still had something in my eye at the end, but Anton Walbrook’s line about the gangsters putting the decent people in prison lands a little differently now

every bit as bad as you think, a hodge-hodge of half-baked ideas, characters and themes stapled onto a boring and somewhat confusing plot

stunningly bad on almost every level and a complete failure

bravo to Maggie Gyllenhaal

There are some beautiful speeches and monologues and quintessential British humour but, having seen the film three times, I can never shake Candy's sombre remark:

"Now here is the lake, and I still haven’t changed.”

I caught it at the P&P season at the BFI a few years back but I'd somehow forgotten just how marvellous it looks. A triumph of preservation and restoration.

(for what it's worth, the print showing on BBC2 right now is pretty sublime, I can hardly take my eyes off it even though I had no plans to watch it this afternoon...)

allow me to be blunt: this movie is a miracle. made during WW2 but refusing to be a jingoistic celebration of Britishness (instead, it actually skewers it)

part love story, part war epic, all-the-while being a timely and timeless reminder of the sacrifices 'total war' requires

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is showing on BBC2 this afternoon.

When will it get a full 4K release? one of the most gorgeous Technicolor films of the 20th century and one of the greatest British films ever made

absolute vindication!!!

thanks to @coreyatad.com for the brilliant interview with Tony Kushner

I’m so glad that I watched Network as a weird teen, as it’s completely shaped how I understand power and the media

It’s the climax of the movie! (No pun intended)

In defence of the Eric Bana nutting scene in Munich On the face of it Eric Bana climaxing to flashbacks of a terror attack he didn’t witness is a ridiculous filmmaking idea

Read my full argument here:

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Robert Duvall’s Frank Hackett was a harbinger of 21st-century journalism and ethics Network’s Frank Hackett, played expertly by Robert Duvall, is the ultimate journalist pragmatist.

"I love Duvall, he's got a kind of sincerity about him that makes the vulgarity twice as effective." - Sidney Lumet

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absolute vindication!!!

thanks to @coreyatad.com for the brilliant interview with Tony Kushner

red wine prices in Sardinia

this is better than all the monologues in Network tbh

“when did Mr Jensen call?”

crushed

Robert Duvall’s Frank Hackett was a harbinger of 21st-century journalism and ethics Network’s Frank Hackett, played expertly by Robert Duvall, is the ultimate journalist pragmatist.

I wrote about Robert Duvall’s Frank Hackett

50 years old today but would have been very happy in a 2026 newsroom

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this is better than all the monologues in Network tbh

“when did Mr Jensen call?”

crushed