James Dalrymple

ah yeah? Thanks! I really love some of Iron & Wine's earlier albums (esp. Shepherd's Dog) but I'd lost track over the last few years

aw, thanks! Enjoying this very much, I have to say

We Are Together Again, by Bonnie "Prince" Billy 10 track album

Now listening (out yesterday):

Bonnie Prince Billy - We Are Together Again
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Must be a relief to finally complete it. Mine took 5 years and I never really wanted to see it ever again after that!

Offside is also in the collection, as is It Was Just an Accident. Will be watching them and others over the next couple of weeks 👍

Some of the absolute best crime neo-noirs in the last decade have come out of China - Black Coal Thin Ice, Ash is Purest White, and few others I have to see - and Only the River Flows is in the same style and of high quality.

Compared to some of Panahi's films, this is openly polemical, but no less thought-provoking than his more coded work. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was banned in Iran. Nerve-wracking! 3/3

Although the characters are mostly strangers, they are brought into contact via the systems of oppression that confront Iranian women. While much of the abuse they face is pushed to the background, the stakes feel palpably high throughout, as the women desperately seek help, refuge and escape. 2/3

The poster for Jafar Panahi's The Circle (2000)

First watch: The Circle (2000). Still working through Mubi's Jafar Panahi collection in chronological order and this is a belter. The film follows with great urgency a series of women in Tehran whose lives briefly intersect, finally coming full circle, back to the character in the first scene. 1/3

Thank you 🙏

Magic Rays of Light On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' app…

Many thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social for his immensely generous @sightsoundmag.bsky.social review of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of British Television; forgive me if I quote some phrases, but first here's the link to the Bloomsbury page for the book:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...

I feel just like that monkey! 😆

I know! Filthy creatures 😆

I had a childhood friend whose grandparents lived in the countryside nearby (can't remember where exactly now). I do remember British soldiers in watchtowers, which left quite an impression

John Self novelizations of screenplays ‘The Hired Hand’ & ‘Night Moves’

“In 1965, soon after the novelist Beryl Bainbridge had given birth to their new daughter, her husband Alan Sharp went downstairs to get a book out of the car. He never came back.” ‘ @john-self.bsky.social ‘Night Moves’ screenwriter & novelist was subject of Bainnbridge’s 1970s novel ‘Sweet William’

My kids have been coughing over me all week and I've finally succumbed to the lurgies. Good excuse to stay in bed and read though 🤧📚

I'd love that. Will have to plan a trip. I've not been to Belfast since c.1991!

Poster for Lust for Gold. The title is in big gold letters set against a mountainous backdrop. The names of stars Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino in the sky above. Small unrecognisable human figures on the ground below

Lust for Gold (1949). Preposterously plotted, bizarrely constructed western, with some truly bad acting and terrible lines: “I shook off the shroud of fear the rattler had thrown over me.” But there’s a fun sort of oddball quality about it in a WTF is going on now kind of way

From the criterion community on Reddit: Agnès Varda and Harrison Ford bundled up on the set of her documentary ‘L’univers de Jacques Demy’ (1995) Explore this post and more from the criterion community

TIL Harrison Ford and Agnes Varda were both close to Jim Morrison (he was a Doors roadie, she may have been 1 of 4 people at JM's funeral) and she interviewed Ford in her World of Jacques Demy documentary, presumably bc he'd almost starred in a Demy film in LA.

Wow!

Back at the ANNA ANCHER: PAINTING LIGHT exhibition today for another look before it closes on 8th March. Very highly recommended if you can get to Dulwich Picture Gallery! #Art #ArtSky #AnnaAncher #London

Congratulations!

Oh wow, what a treat

Thanks again for putting me on to this podcast!

My wife @mariephillips.bsky.social is watching Gray's Anatomy next door and someone just shouted "I got pressure on the defect!" if anyone is looking for a line to sample in their next trap, jerk, cloud rap, or drill track.

Wanda (1970)

This is really good on Barbara Loden's Wanda, with @fatscoleman.bsky.social
Made me want to rewatch the film!
open.spotify.com/episode/2upE...

a lot of people forget this

#LetterBoxdFriday #LastFourWatched

a double dose of Jafar Panahi, a Colson Whitehead adaptation, and a Kevin Costner western

Right! It doesn't get mentioned so much now but was a huge deal at the time. It'll be interesting to think about why that might be

Last four films on Letterboxd: The Secret Agent If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Elizabeth R (TV) Sirat

Last four on Letterboxd. #FilmSky #LastFourFriday #LastFouronLetterboxd
One film and one TV #stonecoldclassic in there…