Chris
@staggerlee42.bsky.social
Love cinema, literature, music and art. Write occasionally about cinema. Married with two kids. Originally from Greater Manchester/Cheshire. Now based in Northern Ireland. Teacher of History and Politics. Degree, PGCE and MA Ed from University of Durham.
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10) Melin Melyn - 18-30
9) Self Esteem - Cheers to Me
8) Divorce - O Calamity
7) MADMADMAD - Hey!
6) The Bug Club - How to Be A Confidante
5) Dilettante - Stone
4) Factory Floor - Tell Me
3) CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2) Joshua Burnside - The Good Life
1) Big Thief - Los Angeles #Top102025
9) Self Esteem - Cheers to Me
8) Divorce - O Calamity
7) MADMADMAD - Hey!
6) The Bug Club - How to Be A Confidante
5) Dilettante - Stone
4) Factory Floor - Tell Me
3) CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2) Joshua Burnside - The Good Life
1) Big Thief - Los Angeles #Top102025
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Just looking at these photos… amazing. Jo’s just dug out her program for Arcadia. Awesome.
www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
Tom Stoppard – a life in pictures
Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just looking at these photos… amazing. Jo’s just dug out her program for Arcadia. Awesome.
www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
A ★★★★½ review of Petite Maman (2021)
Still (after many viewings) a wee miracle of a film.
boxd.it
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Just took Coast of Utopia down from the shelf. May we live up to it.
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Just took Coast of Utopia down from the shelf. May we live up to it.
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Also loved this! 🙌 💛
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Also loved this! 🙌 💛
The first school play that I remember being put on was ‘The Real Inspector Hound’. It was so, so funny and a little unnerving too. After that, I listened to adaptations of ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ and I could not remember anything being so wildly entertaining. Tom was unique. #RIP
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The first school play that I remember being put on was ‘The Real Inspector Hound’. It was so, so funny and a little unnerving too. After that, I listened to adaptations of ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ and I could not remember anything being so wildly entertaining. Tom was unique. #RIP
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Rozencrantz and Guildenstern
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern
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If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.
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Read Abel Ferrara’s memoir SCENE. Raw, systematically chaotic, redemptive, not for the squeamish. Like his films. Loved his early work, lost touch post New Rose Hotel. SCENE fills some gaps, vividly. I crossed his path briefly in Cannes '92, that era particularly resonated. Heavy, well-written.
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Read Abel Ferrara’s memoir SCENE. Raw, systematically chaotic, redemptive, not for the squeamish. Like his films. Loved his early work, lost touch post New Rose Hotel. SCENE fills some gaps, vividly. I crossed his path briefly in Cannes '92, that era particularly resonated. Heavy, well-written.
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THE NINTH HEART (1978), also Herz, with opening credits by Mr & Mrs Švankmajer. Don't know if there's a decent blu-ray, but if so, it's worth checking out. Or czeching out (sorry) as it's another one of those peculiar, rather dark Czech fairytales.
DEVÁTÉ SRDCE (“The ninth heart”, 1978) ~ Credit Sequence
YouTube video by Doktor Säge
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
THE NINTH HEART (1978), also Herz, with opening credits by Mr & Mrs Švankmajer. Don't know if there's a decent blu-ray, but if so, it's worth checking out. Or czeching out (sorry) as it's another one of those peculiar, rather dark Czech fairytales.
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Talking Heads
Sonic Youth
The B-52s
Shonen Knife
George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic
Talking Heads
Sonic Youth
The B-52s
Shonen Knife
George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Pulp
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
American Music Club
Super Furry Animals
Chalk
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Kris Kristofferson
David Bowie
Live Aid
Leonard Cohen
Patti Smith
Kris Kristofferson
David Bowie
Live Aid
Leonard Cohen
Patti Smith
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Talking Heads
Sonic Youth
The B-52s
Shonen Knife
George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic
Talking Heads
Sonic Youth
The B-52s
Shonen Knife
George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic
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so my journal article on Mike Leigh's Mr Turner has been published
(although annoyingly there is a formatting problem in the title that I have asked to be rectified):
journals.openedition.org/ebc/16973
(although annoyingly there is a formatting problem in the title that I have asked to be rectified):
journals.openedition.org/ebc/16973
Spitting Image: Authenticity, Embodiment and Self-reflexivity in Mi...
The turn of the century has seen a boom in cultural production looking back to the 19th century and particularly the Victorian era. Yet, many scholars have been keen to distinguish between those no...
journals.openedition.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
so my journal article on Mike Leigh's Mr Turner has been published
(although annoyingly there is a formatting problem in the title that I have asked to be rectified):
journals.openedition.org/ebc/16973
(although annoyingly there is a formatting problem in the title that I have asked to be rectified):
journals.openedition.org/ebc/16973
A ★★★★ review of Flow (2024)
Follow those bubbles of light little kitty…
boxd.it
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
10 Underappreciated American Neo-Noirs of the Early 1970s
The domestic blowback of the Vietnam War. The sleaze and corruption of Watergate. The incipient rollback of the counterculture and many gains of the 1960s. Economic recession. The upheaval and unce…
crimereads.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
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Great film. An Aubrey Beardsley illustration comes to life
For anyone who hasn’t watched Herz’s The Cremator as well, get on it. An enduring, disturbing masterpiece
For anyone who hasn’t watched Herz’s The Cremator as well, get on it. An enduring, disturbing masterpiece
MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972). Loved this vivid Czech Gothic drama - a tale of two sisters involving jealousy, greed, poisoning, lavish costumes and a striking Siamese cat. The hair and make-up are gloriously over the top, especially for Viktoria, the evil one in this twisted scenario. #FilmSky
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Great film. An Aubrey Beardsley illustration comes to life
For anyone who hasn’t watched Herz’s The Cremator as well, get on it. An enduring, disturbing masterpiece
For anyone who hasn’t watched Herz’s The Cremator as well, get on it. An enduring, disturbing masterpiece
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Morning
Massive thank you to everyone who came by for RSD Black Friday yesterday 🙏🤘
Still some items available in store and now online.
Open until 4pm today.
Massive thank you to everyone who came by for RSD Black Friday yesterday 🙏🤘
Still some items available in store and now online.
Open until 4pm today.
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Morning
Massive thank you to everyone who came by for RSD Black Friday yesterday 🙏🤘
Still some items available in store and now online.
Open until 4pm today.
Massive thank you to everyone who came by for RSD Black Friday yesterday 🙏🤘
Still some items available in store and now online.
Open until 4pm today.
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MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972). Loved this vivid Czech Gothic drama - a tale of two sisters involving jealousy, greed, poisoning, lavish costumes and a striking Siamese cat. The hair and make-up are gloriously over the top, especially for Viktoria, the evil one in this twisted scenario. #FilmSky
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972). Loved this vivid Czech Gothic drama - a tale of two sisters involving jealousy, greed, poisoning, lavish costumes and a striking Siamese cat. The hair and make-up are gloriously over the top, especially for Viktoria, the evil one in this twisted scenario. #FilmSky
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If one didn’t separate the art from the artist, there would be very little art.
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If one didn’t separate the art from the artist, there would be very little art.
10) Melin Melyn - 18-30
9) Self Esteem - Cheers to Me
8) Divorce - O Calamity
7) MADMADMAD - Hey!
6) The Bug Club - How to Be A Confidante
5) Dilettante - Stone
4) Factory Floor - Tell Me
3) CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2) Joshua Burnside - The Good Life
1) Big Thief - Los Angeles #Top102025
9) Self Esteem - Cheers to Me
8) Divorce - O Calamity
7) MADMADMAD - Hey!
6) The Bug Club - How to Be A Confidante
5) Dilettante - Stone
4) Factory Floor - Tell Me
3) CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2) Joshua Burnside - The Good Life
1) Big Thief - Los Angeles #Top102025
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
10) Melin Melyn - 18-30
9) Self Esteem - Cheers to Me
8) Divorce - O Calamity
7) MADMADMAD - Hey!
6) The Bug Club - How to Be A Confidante
5) Dilettante - Stone
4) Factory Floor - Tell Me
3) CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2) Joshua Burnside - The Good Life
1) Big Thief - Los Angeles #Top102025
9) Self Esteem - Cheers to Me
8) Divorce - O Calamity
7) MADMADMAD - Hey!
6) The Bug Club - How to Be A Confidante
5) Dilettante - Stone
4) Factory Floor - Tell Me
3) CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2) Joshua Burnside - The Good Life
1) Big Thief - Los Angeles #Top102025
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November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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We wound up watching our morning movie before I posted this, which is unusual for me, but irrelevant to anyone else. Anyhow it's #LastFourFriday! Lotta noir (mostly as part of our Noirsgiving marathon), another fine Radiance discovery, and the kindest slasher movie about gay porn I can imagine. 📽️
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We wound up watching our morning movie before I posted this, which is unusual for me, but irrelevant to anyone else. Anyhow it's #LastFourFriday! Lotta noir (mostly as part of our Noirsgiving marathon), another fine Radiance discovery, and the kindest slasher movie about gay porn I can imagine. 📽️
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One of the twentieth century’s major authors, without question.
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One of the twentieth century’s major authors, without question.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM