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John Bleasdale

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The Magic Hours: the Life of Terrence Malick Darkness Visible: the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World/Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/7LMnm5Gfb42qUV5qLdymMp?si=CC_zOz5ERTWFm_iij8ImAg

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 10h

@simonbrew.bsky.social @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social @filmstories.bsky.social

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 10h

Picked this up because Krull

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 11h

We might prefer it to be otherwise but “I’ll let you go” is telephonese for “I don’t want to talk to you anymore”.

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 11h

Blast I’m already at Gatwick

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 4d

The films that almost were. Unproduced, unfinished, or unseen-these screenplays open new chapters in film history.

Unrealized visions by Chaplin, Sturges, De Palma, Mamet, Herzog, Cohen & Rubin.

Resurrected.

More coming soon.

From Sticking Place Books.

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 11h

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: orchestral beauty, voyeuristic perversion, unexpected cliffhangers and much more.
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Film Stories Podcast Network | Top 10 Film Scores, Rear Window, Alien: Earth and more

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: orchestral beauty, voyeuristic perversion, unexpected cliffhangers and much more.

filmstories.co.uk

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 17h

My piece on the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is up. Enjoy.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

The festival that shows why silent films still speak loudly

The reels from Palestine and Italy might be a century old - but they feel shockingly of the moment

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 18h

I’d watch that. I’m in London where can I get Krull/FilmStories?

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

Went to the BFI IMAX for the first time this evening and watched Sirat.
Then hosted a Q&A with the cleverest most intriguing director Oliver Laxe.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 19h

I love the Criterion closet in which rich people get given free Blu-rays for advertising.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 20h

Morning

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

Went to the BFI IMAX for the first time this evening and watched Sirat.
Then hosted a Q&A with the cleverest most intriguing director Oliver Laxe.

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Andy English @mrenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Post a you from a different era

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

Post you from a different era

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · Feb 12

That sound you hear is Adam Driver firing his agent.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 1d

Morning

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

That’s it. I don’t want to disengage from social media. But boy… sometimes.

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

Worse than spoilers by far are the people who tell you when you e just bought a book or you say you’re on your way to a film “I liked it but didn’t love it” or some such.
They should die gory and painful deaths.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

Good to get my good friend’s new novel today

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

On it

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

Was Nero the first “can we separate the art from the artist” guy?

John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

I realized today that because of Rex Harrison, Peter O’Toole, Tinto Brass, Derek Jacobi and Peter Ustinov I know who the first five Roman emperors were.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

Good morning

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 2d

I realized today that because of Rex Harrison, Peter O’Toole, Tinto Brass, Derek Jacobi and Peter Ustinov I know who the first five Roman emperors were.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 3d

It had to be her

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 3d

You take those both back.

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