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Neil Norman @njstreitberger.bsky.social · 52m

Heads up, Film Fans! A new series of #ClassicMovies starts tonight at 7.00pm on #SkyArts with the usual gang discussing Hitchcock’s drop dead masterpiece, #TheThirtyNineSteps. Author John Buchan thought it was better than his novel. #DiscoveringDianeKeaton follows at 8.00pm.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 54m

I too do not care for the man or his silly ways.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 1h

And I’d do it all again!!!!

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 1h

I pretty much cornered the market in mediocre acid. Rather than hallucinate, one merely felt jolly, nostalgic and shallow. That‘s how I invented Britpop.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 2h

Circa. 1993. my brief ‘experimental jazz trumpeter‘ phase.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 2h

Fabulous, fact-packed look at one of Hitchcock’s masterworks. Now I know where ‘This is where I came in…’ comes from. Should have known, really.

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 6d

New episode of Writers on Film—
Rear Window by Jennifer O’Callaghan
open.spotify.com/episode/65DR...

Spotify – Web Player

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 13h

Connery: A Non-Fiction.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

I’m happy to announce that I am beginning a new biographical project on Sean Connery.
I am in early stages but if anyone has any contacts, avenues, stories, anecdotes etc then I would love to hear them. Please DM me.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who answers ‘yes’ to this idiot question can go piss into their own soup.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck no!

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Christopher James @jameschristopher.bsky.social · 1d

I used to think that Struzan was second only to Saul Bass when it came to film posters but his work is so inextricably linked with a very long run of iconic films that are lodged deep in the psyche of Gen Xers that this usurps any claim of superior design

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Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78

He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style as Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro pay tribute.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 1d

There were the posters, then the movies, and then the posters took over. They became the album sleeves that you’d slide the movies into for safe keeping. I loved him.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 1d

Struzan was responsible for so much of the yearning and fevered expectation of my young years, a time made magical by his art. He was utterly extraordinary.

Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 1d

RIP to inspirational movie poster legend, Drew Struzan. Everything he put his pen to ended up being some canonical representation of a movie we now love. Often, the posters are more famous than the movies themselves. Poster auteurism!

We love these unused Struzan designs for Back to the Future.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 4d

My God. What an actress. What a loss. I utterly loved her.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 4d

‘The Washington Post critic wouldn’t know graceful verse if it but his nose off.‘ Hahaha! Quite lovely to hear that despite the frailty, his voice even at that stage was ox-strong.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 5d

Will luxuriate in this later. Thanks for sending it old stick.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 5d

Blood on Satan’s Claw would make a great double bill with The Wicker Man.

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Free For All @freeforallpod.bsky.social · Aug 27

A familiar face on Welsh television, Mici Plwm (pronounced Mickey Plum) was as an extra in The Prisoner. Plwm is known to a whole generation of Welsh children as the hapless Plwmsam in the Anturiaethau (Adventures of) Syr Wynff a Plwmsan (1980-89) #checkmate #theprisoner #s4c

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 5d

Oh what a joyous film. A sweet, beautifully crafted antidote to all that ails you. I hope they rain BAFTAs upon it.
#theballadofwallisisland

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 9d

‘They say a madman has the strength of ten…’

I think of him every time I see anyone drinking a half of Guinness. A lovely actor.

🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 9d

John Woodvine (21 July 1929 – 6 October 2025) R.I.P

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 10d

This is superb information overload.

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 11d

So good to see Demme getting some serious appreciation. His career has a fascinating arc and it’’s scattered with some priceless jewels. Also quietly impressed that David M Stewart knows who Bucks Fizz are.

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 15d

There’s No Going Back : the Life and Work of Jonathan Demme
Author David M. Stewart is on Writers on Film today
podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 13d

Last year I opened the doors of the James Bond Book Club to all fans of Ian Fleming’s secret agent 007 with a wonderful conversation about Casino Royale

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Casino Royale

Podcast Episode · The James Bond Book Club · 09/08/2024 · 1h 11m

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Cai Ross @caiross.bsky.social · 12d

Oooh. One of their very best.

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