Last four films I logged on Letterboxd. Left to right: Canyon Passage directed by Jacques Tourneur (four stars), Bone Temple directed by Nia Dacosta (three and a half stars), The Tragedy of Macbeth directed by Joel Coen (four and a half stars), Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (four stars).
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Two hands hold up a cat, looking straight into the camera, with a shawl wrapped over its head and a peculiar toothy grin on its face. caption" "It's dangerous to go alone. Take babushka with you."
Myth, history, landscape, language etc are all really moving and inspiring.
Philip Reeve's Here Lies Arthur. Cowper Powys's A Glastonbury Romance. Donald Barthelme's The King. Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King. The Steinbeck a bunch of people have recommended, but for me what I loved best about it is the letters that track his many years working on it. His engagement with
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Arrow Video 4k box of EXCALIBUR
Arrow Video 4k case for EXCALIBUR
We used to make motherfucking *art* for our movie marketing / packaging, y'all.
We must remember, for it is the doom of men that they forget.
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Kino Lorber have just announced a new 4k of one of my favourite slashers, 1980's TERROR TRAIN with Jamie Lee Curtis. Includes a brand new commentary track from myself and masked villain @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social 💜
UK folks, channel 4 streaming app has Jacques Tourneur's Western, CANYON PASSAGE and it's a nice looking print.
I had an absolute ball with Cerys Matthews a week or so back, talking Laurel and Hardy and @allaboutthemusicpod.com.
Interview starts at 1.01.01.
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This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage
Ah, shit, yeah of course! Doh, sorry! 🙃
You can set your messages so only people you follow can message you... With that there's no "other" folder to worry about as far as I can tell.
Book cover 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR
Film poster 1000 Women in Horror
Can't wait til 20 March when the @shudder.com doc 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR is released? Good news! You can read my book that inspired the film in the interim!
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Images from a scene captured from 2 versions of the motion picture: The 4K on top The 2011 1080p Blu-ray below.
Excalibur (1981) 2026 4K
Remastered from the negative, 35 mm prints used for coloring, and review by director John Boorman, in the original 1.66:1 ratio. This is what movies should look like. #FilmSky
This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)
"...every frame looks like it’s been forged in dragon fire. Boorman didn’t make a polite medieval epic. He made myth, stripped naked and screaming."
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Most and a bunch others can be borrowed at internet archive
I've seen this. It's superb. Highly recommended!
The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie.
Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa by Teruyo Nogami (his script supervisor for 50 years).
All the best Martyn, hope the adjustment does what you need it to :-)
Go see what realest of deals @horrornonna.com has in store for you!
Can't tell you how happy I was to see this post. We all worked so hard on this release. Also your response was my response when I first saw the finished restoration and I had to sit on that reaction until it was finally out there in the world while desperate to shout about and share it 😂
The Over-Fluffy Cat.
It’s a flaw of evolution:
The over-fluffy cat can lick his arse,
But does not clean the shit from off his tail
Nor the fur around the puckered pink
(pinched tight as a politician's lips).
That’s my job.
But only after he trails it round the house to find me.
#Poetry #Cats
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
Kind of horrified to realise that five years on, there's still no physical edition of the 2021 Tragedy of Macbeth, directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances Mcdormand.
Perfect picture use.
The Nothing from Neverending Story: "Because people who have no hopes... ...are easy to control."
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
