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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 59m

Welp, Backlisted has just been moved to the biggest stage at the 92nd St Y due to “unprecedented demand”. Join the waiting list, New York! Two weeks today, we’ll be celebrating William Maxwell, a century of the New Yorker and, oh yeah, a decade of @backlisted.bsky.social. Tickets via 92NY.org.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 23m

Joseph Conrad is good actually and worth rereading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 4h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22m

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot

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Tim Noble @tim-lh.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow I have to resist the temptation to dive straight into this. I am determined to save it for a long overseas journey that I’m making in December. If I heard the @backlisted.bsky.social podcast correctly, I ultimately have you to thank for the recommendation @andrewmale.bsky.social

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1h

Just in case therestisnoise.com/statues_of_c...

Statues of critics – Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

therestisnoise.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4h

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

www.thenational.scot/news/2553640...

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 9h

Jar with octopus motif, 1450–1400 BCE,
Knossos, Crete

74.5cm tall
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you, Tim. Not sure “enjoy” is the right word. Endure, neither. Let’s go with… Endjoy!

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 5h

The movie being nearly three hours means the final sentence is either a typo or a very funny backhanded compliment.

Paul Schrader

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. FB friends have asked my opinion. Filmmaking at level A+, but try as a might I couldn't muster up an ounce of empathy for Leo D'Caprio or Sean Penn. I kept waitng for them to die. (Penn's performance , however, is a masterclass in peacock acting.) What held me in my seat for the better part of two hours was PT Anderson's Joy of Filmmaing.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 7h

Delightful. Appreciate it. I’ll bring in some nice things for exchange as well.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent news! Looking forward to seeing you there.

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Looking For The Magic Records @lookingforthemagic.bsky.social · 7h

Excited to say that we’re moving to our very own premises! We’ll be opening our new shop in Carshalton at midday on Sat November 1st. We’ve had such a special time at the Sound Lounge & we now have the opportunity to move to a bigger space which means we’ll have more racks & loads more cool stuff! 🚀

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 8h

I will be introducing Orson Welles' wonderful THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social on 9 November www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/the-ma...

The Magnificent Ambersons + introduction

Orson Welles’ second feature chronicles the fall of a wealthy Indianapolis family during the American industrialisation boom of the early 20th century. Isabel Amberson’s spoiled son stands in the way ...

www.glasgowfilm.org

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that false humanist idea that human beings as a race can lean from experience and are on some ascending scale of cumulative improvement.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 10h

There are two properly terrifying episodes in Season One that I love but ask the true expert, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

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alex tobin 🍩 @alextobin.com · 21h

My mood tonight and random web searches have led me to discover the perfect soundtrack, @andrewmale.bsky.social’s ‘Flow My Tears’ playlist.

Flow My Tears

open.spotify.com

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 22h

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 22h

#NowPlaying

Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris (Blue Note, Stereo, 1963)

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 22h

So do I.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 23h

For those who remember STB listening to John Coltrane, I bring you: Hildy listening to Stan Getz

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 1d

After a rough day Friday, I locked myself down for the w'end listening to Bob Odenkirk's Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama. Which reminds me that when I bought the Mr Show book off Ebay his wife Naomi was the seller and wrote me a message on the back of a photo. I had their return address on the label too!

Photo of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross from their Mr Show days.

Back of the photo with writing around the edge.
Christina. Wow. We are thrilled the show has reached you! Thank you! And spread the good word. Best, Naomi.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 22h

Inspired by Dario Argento catching two episodes of Dad’s Army on his visit to the UK in October 1970. The end-titles influence is clear but there also may have been no razor-wire room if it hadn’t been for Argento seeing Private Pike caught in barbed wire in Series 4, Episode 4: Sgt – Save My Boy!

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 23h

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 23h

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

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