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Josh Slater-Williams

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UK-based critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, Total Film, Little White Lies, IndieWire and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle. https://linktr.ee/jslaterwilliams

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 10

Updated my list of Blu-ray releases for which I've contributed booklet and video essays! Recently filed something for a very exciting box set and I'm currently working on another [redacted] due soon.

These are fun and I would love to work with *you* in the future!

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My physical media contributions
In order of when the Blu-rays were released. Click 'Read notes' for details of the booklet or video essays.

Poster images for Typhoon Club (1985), Suzhou River (2000), Love Hotel (1985) and The Coffee Table (2022)

Photo of the following Blu-ray limited editions: Typhoon Club (1985) from Third Window Films, Suzhou River (2000) from Radiance Films), Love Hotel (1985) from Third Window Films, and The Coffee Table (2022) from Second Sight

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chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 2h

oh my god

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3h

I am about to go for the longest walk. Heartbreaking. balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 3h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 4h

A throwback shot of the Prince Charles Cinema from back in 1973 when we were screening smash-hit Last Tango in Paris. The photograph was featured in a MG ad titled "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It".

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 5h

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Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social · Aug 22

Philip Glass napping in the back seat.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 7h

Harry Potter didn't, in the end, encourage people to read, it just encouraged them to read Harry Potter.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 7h

Playing at London Film Festival tonight and tomorrow #LFF

Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 5d

I had the pleasure of meeting Sophy Romvari a few days before her film BLUE HERON won the First Feature Award at Locarno. Ahead of the film's UK premiere at the London Film Festival, extracts from our chat are now live at the BFI site

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“If you can’t handle disorienting moments, maybe you shouldn’t be watching movies”: Sophy Romvari on Locarno prize-winner Blue Heron

Having already established an international fanbase for her short films, Sophy Romvari has now made her feature debut with the gut-punching family drama Blue Heron. Ahead of its LFF screenings, we spo...

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 18h

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 20h

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)

Kelly Reichardt looking up at a considerably taller Josh O'Connor on the red carpet at the UK premiere of 'The Mastermind' at the London Film Festival

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LostReelsUK @lostreelsuk.bsky.social · 20h

ANNOUNCEMENT. Lost Reels returns to The ICA with the Best Christmas War Film you’ve never seen – Keith Gordon’s superlative A MIDNIGHT CLEAR (1992). Completely unavailable in the UK and followed by a Q&A with writer/director Keith Gordon. Tickets here: ica.art/films/a-midnight-clear-q-a

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 7d

PERFECT BLUE is newly remastered and back in cinemas, so I wrote a primer on the screen work of Satoshi Kon for the BFI!

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Where to begin with Satoshi Kon

As Perfect Blue returns to cinemas, we introduce the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Satoshi Kon, a visionary of grown-up animation whose films blur the boundary between reality and fantasy, and ...

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 21h

his company has said if people had property rights to the textual and visual work they created his company would cease to exist

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Very good convo with Julia Ducournau and Tahar Rahim this morning, including chat about THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN being “quite pervy” to revisit as an adult

UK quad poster for the film ‘Alpha’ (2025)

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Brendon @brendonbouzard.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Savini

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Did all these jabronis hop in a group chat and agree that their critics can't tell the difference between the Saudi people and the Saudi government?

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 1d

Cummings accused those upset with her participation in the Saudi Arabian event of ignorance and hypocrisy.

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Whitney Cummings calls critics of Riyadh Comedy Festival "racist"

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Finally… what everyone outside of Apple was calling it anyway

IndieWire @indiewire.com · 1d

It's time for a name change: Apple TV+ is just AppleTV now.

It’s Not Apple TV+ Anymore

It's time for a name change: Apple TV+ is just AppleTV now.

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chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 1d

it really is crazy how any post on here that isn't by an American and gets to a certain point of virality that it breaks containment will inevitably have someone in the replies saying that whatever the post is about is somehow Trump's fault

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

I admit defeat

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Loved Yoon Ga-eun’s THE WORLD OF LOVE at London Film Festival today, and a nice surprise to see music supervisor/performer credits for Lee Minhwi, the artist behind my beloved “Borrowed Tongue” cap

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like David Zaslav but him being in charge is actually better than letting the Ellisons get their hands on Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros rebuffs Paramount takeover approach, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/3W2dX34

Warner Bros rebuffs Paramount takeover approach, Bloomberg News reports

Warner Bros Discovery has rebuffed Paramount Skydance's initial takeover approach as too low, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Gleeson Oscar pick a total lucky guess

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chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 1d

completely missed that this had gone up at the end of last month - Evil Does Not Exist up on iPlayer for a full year

Evil Does Not Exist

The lives of a man and his neighbours are disrupted when a camping development is planned in their idyllic town in the Japanese countryside. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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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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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 2d

Same old news stories every day

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

A manager at Historic Environment Scotland was sanctioned after allegedly 'twerking' in front of Hollywood actor Martin Compston, according to reports

Scottish heritage boss sanctioned for 'twerking' in front of Martin Compston

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 2d

It is amazing to me how many people in normal everyday life, not movie people, just IRL randos at work and friend circles, who told me they were interested in seeing the new TRON before they discovered Jared Leto was in it, and then they decided against it.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Jared Leto is the opposite of a movie star, he is a movie black hole

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