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My report from Venice (part one) www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
Oh no. Ratioed
Bloody hell. Got spotted
Just bumped into Idris Elba and Katherine Bigelow
Yes. I think this should just be yeah whatevs. Anyone who gets an honor from Trump is going to be an asshole.
There’s a different between “posts about” and “inciting violence against”. Just as “talking a theater” and “yelling fire” are different
It’s not the road to fascism. You e already arrived.
Happy days at the Venice Film Festival Bigelow this morning. House of Dynamite.
Writers on Film hits the Venice Film Venice #filmsky open.spotify.com/episode/20bz...
Do listen in, and if you want to watch the movie version as discussed, it’s on BBC2 tonight at 11pm.
Blair was rotten as a foreign policy hawk but his government did some effective moves against poverty
Writers on Film hits the Venice Film Venice #filmsky open.spotify.com/episode/20bz...
This man is a f&cking c&nt no?
Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.
9/1/49: The Third Man!!! D Carol Reed/DP Robert Krasker/W Graham Greene w/Joseph Cotten/Alida Valli/Trevor Howard/Orson Welles More: Scorsese: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta... @www.johnbleasdale.com: hotcorn.com/en/movies/ne... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/mzs/magic-la...
Who is doing all these things?
The first report from Venice Film Festival is up #filmsky podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
The first report from Venice Film Festival is up #filmsky podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
Venice Film Festival on the Rocks
Morning
Thank you
Harsh
Going to see The Smashing Machine with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Emily Blunt, Wallace and Gromit
One real pity about Frankenstein is that it very much ought to be seen on the biggest screen possible. www.timeout.com/movies/frank...
You’ll have a blast
Relatable
The Last Viking: Mads Mikkelsen plays a man with a bad haircut who thinks he’s John Lennon and who’s the only person who knows where his ex-con brother’s loot is hidden. Tonally wild, violent and funny. Fans of Anders Thomas Jensen and Mads prior collabs will love.
Great books make bad films (sometimes)
I couldn’t stay with The Wizard of the Kremlin. Every line was exposition; every character a type; every situation fake. Every Jude Law a Putney Putin. I left early.
Yep Bundesliga is once more not the premiership
Below the Clouds: Gianfranco Rosi’s impressionistic documentary weaving stories of Naples into a tapestry of vapor, grain, tunnels and ruins. The emergency line for the fire brigade is like listening in on a city’s subconscious. I’m not so Much the “real Naples” as a dream of a possible one.
What do Arsenal need to do to get booked?
Liverpool are giving away too many balls too bloody cheaply #ynwa
Im really enjoying the Movie Tie In book club over on Facebook
There’s more than one fly in the world
All those billionaires who have pledged to give away their fortunes… have they done it yet? How’s that going?
Just talked to someone who saw it and it sounds Zoolander 2 bad
I love #Mubi but if there’s no movement on their Israeli investments it will have to be a film resource I do without.
My Frankenstein review is out www.timeout.com/movies/frank...
Its the point in the festival that I start giving films half an hour and then leaving. Life’s too short for any of it to be spent in the company of Paul Dano.
There’s more than one fly in the world
Huge Palestine rally on the Lido sure to catch the eye of visitors to the #VeniceFilmFestival. Well-organized & dignified. Very effective. #Venice #RealTime
Morning
Venice Film Festival: Bugonia: Lanthimos & Emma Stone team up for a mad satire. Jesse Plemons kidnapping Stones’ CEO cos he thinks she’s part of an alien plot. Dark & precise as a nail gun. Yorgos might be a misanthrope but he’s an entertaining one & he has the courage of his lack of convictions
Venice Film Festival: Jay Kelly Baumbach hits his lowest with a Hollywood satire as biting as a handjob. Oscar bait performances, unbelievable situations & a patchy plot, the aesthetic of a Rolex advert and the humor of a Nespresso plug. Clooney plays Clooney and Sandler is the best of a bad lot.
I wrote an obituary of the theater and TV actor Jerry Adler www.ft.com/content/c3b9...
A report from Oslo on the Norway New Wave for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
After the Hunt: Guadagnino’s drama is both too long & incomplete. ripped from the headlines (in 1987) as Julia Roberts’s Yale Professor struggles when her student accuses a colleague of sexual assault. This bothsides MeToo boasts great performances but its look at me direction grates.
My Frankenstein review is out www.timeout.com/movies/frank...
And here’s an ACTUAL NY Times headline from 1924.
After the Hunt: Guadagnino’s drama is both too long & incomplete. ripped from the headlines (in 1987) as Julia Roberts’s Yale Professor struggles when her student accuses a colleague of sexual assault. This bothsides MeToo boasts great performances but its look at me direction grates.
The idea of having gratitude to a country is only ever imposed on people of color. White people have “legitimate concerns”. Ingratitude is the new uppity.
A report from Oslo on the Norway New Wave for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
I wrote an obituary of the theater and TV actor Jerry Adler www.ft.com/content/c3b9...
He was great. Someone whose humanity didn’t stop him from also being possibly very very dark.
Venice Film Festival: Jay Kelly Baumbach hits his lowest with a Hollywood satire as biting as a handjob. Oscar bait performances, unbelievable situations & a patchy plot, the aesthetic of a Rolex advert and the humor of a Nespresso plug. Clooney plays Clooney and Sandler is the best of a bad lot.
Venice Film Festival: Bugonia: Lanthimos & Emma Stone team up for a mad satire. Jesse Plemons kidnapping Stones’ CEO cos he thinks she’s part of an alien plot. Dark & precise as a nail gun. Yorgos might be a misanthrope but he’s an entertaining one & he has the courage of his lack of convictions
The unraveling of the American state is fascinating to see happen. It’s like the conspiracy theorists have become what they always projected: an enemy from within wielding military and media power against their own citizenry. Without a radical & unlikely awakening, …
No Other Choice: my review from Venice. www.timeout.com/movies/no-ot...
Oh shit that’s a bad one. Thanks for the catch.
No Other Choice: my review from Venice. www.timeout.com/movies/no-ot...
This is why we can’t have good things
Morning
“Meanwhile, a rough beast slouched towards Hollywood Bethlehem to be born. Bethlehem in this case was the holiday resort town of Amity, and with Jaws (1975), the blockbuster was born.” Fucking hell, @www.johnbleasdale.com is good
Sorrentino’s LA GRAZIA is his best since Il Divo, which in some ways it’s a thematic sequel to. But a much less cynical, much more hopeful version. A fantasy of a country’s president who isn’t a raving arsehole. Sorrentino reigns in his lewd excesses and makes a good film.
Chills
I did not know that the Volkswagen Beetle in the Shining was inspired by Ted Bundy’s car. In the book it was red but Kubrick went for the color that numerous witnesses had sighted
You’re no longer a critic. You are an actor!
Venice poster game
Yes. Good for you man
Except for me
Radu Jude’s Dracula My Sight and Sound review www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
A new piece for The New World coming out of Locarno Film Festival @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
Also it feels like Under the Skin was partly inspired by Ted Bundy. First because of the picking someone up in a van but also the ending. I can’t say more.
I did not know that the Volkswagen Beetle in the Shining was inspired by Ted Bundy’s car. In the book it was red but Kubrick went for the color that numerous witnesses had sighted
Joachim Trier opening the Oslo Pix Festival with Sentimental Value
Well that’s one way of looking at it.
Oooooh
Shugar
Ok
Don’t be a wally
Yep. Walter White as reaction to Barack Obama. I mean .. it’s only in the fucking name!
Numerically and with disproportionate power.
*vast majority And by the way arthouse is if anything more prone.
One of the things I love is when someone takes a novel to script and turns it into a sequel for a totally unrelated franchise. Like the novel that Die Hard 2 is based on. Or the fact Saw 2 was a completely unrelated horror script and the producers just said we need another Saw. This’ll do.
This means that the majority of the culture we absorb comes from a class whose interests we not only don’t share but also might go against our own interests. The middle class make films about the working class and the rich make films about everyone. Discuss.
One thing I don’t think we talk about enough is how much the arts are dominated by very wealthy people. I don’t mean studio owners. I mean directors, writers and actors who either come from privilege or are soon awarded with enough to move them into wealth (if they’re successful). (1/2)
Morning
Joachim Trier opening the Oslo Pix Festival with Sentimental Value
The horror journalist Mariam Dagga photographed in the last months of her life. The last one is from the hospital where she was killed today. Curated by @apnews.com editors apnews.com/photo-galler...
Paul Laverty was wearing this very T-shirt at the Edinburgh Film Festival talk I moderated with him, Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien on Wednesday. He spoke passionately about human rights, peace and raising your voice for the voiceless. Of course he had to be arrested.
Siri find out what the founding fathers thought of a standing army
New episode of Writers on Film features @clarkcollis.bsky.social on his new history of horror from Screaming to Conjuring podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
Hells bells
No one recognized the quote?
A quote from?
"Estou com 64 anos, e vejo tantos filmes que têm três ou quatro horas de duração, sem um bom motivo. Eu assisto a vários filmes modernos e digo 'Corta, corta. Já entendi. Corta.'" -- finalmente alguém falou 🙏🏽
Being in prison is being in a cunt. Having any sex in the world is having to have sex with capitalism. What can Janey and Genet do?
Oslo Pix Film Festival starts today with Norwegian premiere of Sentimental Value. I got a chance to talk with the stars and the writer earlier today and shall be posting on the UK release. I can sneak the news out that Stellan is a legend & one of the sweetest guys and Renata is a blast
