Anne Billson
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
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The perils of clinging to the front of a speeding van while wearing a kipper tie.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The perils of clinging to the front of a speeding van while wearing a kipper tie.
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Ugh dark already and haven't set foot outside. Need to stretch my legs and decompress the work-addled brain. What's this? Douglas Sirk's IMITATION OF LIFE (1959) showing at De Cinema this evening? That'll do nicely!
December 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ugh dark already and haven't set foot outside. Need to stretch my legs and decompress the work-addled brain. What's this? Douglas Sirk's IMITATION OF LIFE (1959) showing at De Cinema this evening? That'll do nicely!
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My daughter is currently crowdfunding for her first short film as a writer-director, based on her experience of working as a waitress over the past few years, shooting on location in London with a talented, young, all-female crew.
Please share/donate if you can!
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Please share/donate if you can!
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Post-Shift Clarity
After a brutal Saturday shift, a burnt-out waitress and her coworker wait for close as exhaustion reveals what hustle really costs
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December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My daughter is currently crowdfunding for her first short film as a writer-director, based on her experience of working as a waitress over the past few years, shooting on location in London with a talented, young, all-female crew.
Please share/donate if you can!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
Please share/donate if you can!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
Reading about Georges Simenon's work ethic is making me feel sloppy and undisciplined. (Though he did have a wife, and a housekeeper, whereas I don't, so I take a small amount of comfort in that.)
Writing life: Georges Simenon
The crime writer and Maigret inventor's books were all composed in the same intense mood, as if he were gripped by a fever
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December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reading about Georges Simenon's work ethic is making me feel sloppy and undisciplined. (Though he did have a wife, and a housekeeper, whereas I don't, so I take a small amount of comfort in that.)
A great read! Highly recommended.
Fancy a bit of Greek sunshine in your life this December?
Cheaper than flying to Crete, the e-book of my novel Mr Wilder and Me is currently 99p on both Amazon and @bookshop.org.
Here's the Bookshop link (buying from them gives support to indie booksellers.).
Cheaper than flying to Crete, the e-book of my novel Mr Wilder and Me is currently 99p on both Amazon and @bookshop.org.
Here's the Bookshop link (buying from them gives support to indie booksellers.).
Mr Wilder and Me: A sun-soaked historical coming-of-age set behind the scenes of a Hollywood film production
A sun-soaked historical coming-of-age set behind the scenes of a Hollywood film production
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December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A great read! Highly recommended.
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Pink Flamingos (1972)
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Pink Flamingos (1972)
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December 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Slip into some spandex and sharpen your claws for The Panther Women!
From the director of Night of the Bloody Apes, The Panther Women sees a pair of fearless luchadoras battle a witch cult hell-bent on resurrecting their leader.
🤼♀️🐾 tinyurl.com/57dfcen2
From the director of Night of the Bloody Apes, The Panther Women sees a pair of fearless luchadoras battle a witch cult hell-bent on resurrecting their leader.
🤼♀️🐾 tinyurl.com/57dfcen2
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Slip into some spandex and sharpen your claws for The Panther Women!
From the director of Night of the Bloody Apes, The Panther Women sees a pair of fearless luchadoras battle a witch cult hell-bent on resurrecting their leader.
🤼♀️🐾 tinyurl.com/57dfcen2
From the director of Night of the Bloody Apes, The Panther Women sees a pair of fearless luchadoras battle a witch cult hell-bent on resurrecting their leader.
🤼♀️🐾 tinyurl.com/57dfcen2
A Serbian Film; Martyrs; Hostel (+ anything else by Eli Roth); Last House on the Left (& I love Wes Craven); Mamma Mia!; Megan Is Missing; Salò (which I think is a masterpiece, but...) Not a big fan of films about people being tortured to death, though for some reason I don't mind Saw & its sequels.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A Serbian Film; Martyrs; Hostel (+ anything else by Eli Roth); Last House on the Left (& I love Wes Craven); Mamma Mia!; Megan Is Missing; Salò (which I think is a masterpiece, but...) Not a big fan of films about people being tortured to death, though for some reason I don't mind Saw & its sequels.
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10 Rillington Place. My tolerance for horror is high but that film is too much. Its tubercular, devastating in both its bleak cruelty and its pummelling sadness. I don't know where Attenborough found that performance but it's the closest thing to true evil I've ever seen portrayed on the screen.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
10 Rillington Place. My tolerance for horror is high but that film is too much. Its tubercular, devastating in both its bleak cruelty and its pummelling sadness. I don't know where Attenborough found that performance but it's the closest thing to true evil I've ever seen portrayed on the screen.
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Behind door number 9 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... M.R. James, and the BBC's A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS strand (Lost Hearts is one of my faves). Christmas isn't Christmas without it!
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Behind door number 9 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... M.R. James, and the BBC's A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS strand (Lost Hearts is one of my faves). Christmas isn't Christmas without it!
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Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Aelbrecht Bouts of Leuven. Here by himself, with his favorite skull, because death comes to us all. Cheerful!
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Aelbrecht Bouts of Leuven. Here by himself, with his favorite skull, because death comes to us all. Cheerful!
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Dec 9th 1880 - Father Patrick Malone met Blake, the wealthy owner of the Elizabeth Dane, who suffered from leprosy.
📽️📅 The Fog (1980)
📽️📅 The Fog (1980)
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Dec 9th 1880 - Father Patrick Malone met Blake, the wealthy owner of the Elizabeth Dane, who suffered from leprosy.
📽️📅 The Fog (1980)
📽️📅 The Fog (1980)
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And then RFK drinks it
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
And then RFK drinks it
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This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This sent me to Linda Fiorentino’s Wikipedia page. I was always intrigued by what happened to her career and remembered her reputation as being “difficult”. Reading it, I see where some of the “difficulties” may have stemmed from.
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Let me stop you right there…
“Earning far too little”, will do.
“Earning far too little”, will do.
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Let me stop you right there…
“Earning far too little”, will do.
“Earning far too little”, will do.
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Which gives me the chance to share my favourite @rosemarymosco.com comic:
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Misleading Names — Rosemary Mosco
Some misleading animal names, and why they're particularly misleading.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Which gives me the chance to share my favourite @rosemarymosco.com comic:
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where's this from, it's brilliant
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
where's this from, it's brilliant
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I'd absolutely mistake this for a sex shop
The cosy organic cafe on South Norwood’s insalubrious Portland Road shut its doors recently. The new owners clearly thought they’d get the punters in by calling it The Chill Spot and kitting it out in purple neon, black, chrome and hot pink. Curiously, the punters have stayed away.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'd absolutely mistake this for a sex shop
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Les cryptos, comment ça fonctionne.
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Les cryptos, comment ça fonctionne.
Never seen André Téchiné's Les soueurs Brontë (1979), but it has always been a source of hilarity for me.
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Never seen André Téchiné's Les soueurs Brontë (1979), but it has always been a source of hilarity for me.
Only (knowingly) seen her in El refugio del miedo (1974), El techo de cristal (1971) and Un, dos, tres... al escondite inglés (1970), but I think I'm becoming a Patty Shepard fan.
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Only (knowingly) seen her in El refugio del miedo (1974), El techo de cristal (1971) and Un, dos, tres... al escondite inglés (1970), but I think I'm becoming a Patty Shepard fan.
Very much enjoying this goosefish vs tasselled wobbegong shark thread. Also, fish experts are the BEST experts.
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
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This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Very much enjoying this goosefish vs tasselled wobbegong shark thread. Also, fish experts are the BEST experts.