Marvellous evening at the BFI with James Bell and Will Fowler discussing the career of Peter Watkins.
Jon Dear
@accordingtojond.bsky.social
Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Obviously anyone who engages with Eli Roth as a filmmaker actively hates film/is a cunt but just in case you were unsure
Eli Roth Confirms He Used Generative AI in His New Movie 'Ice Cream Man':
The horror director confirmed using generative AI for the film, but it's still unclear exactly where it appears in the finished film.
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You wait ‘til he hears about Cecil Rhodes.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterdayApologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.
It’s the ship that did the Kessel Run in under 20mph.
NationCymru@nation.cymru · yesterdayStar Wars is to be dubbed into Welsh for the first time, with a cast of leading Welsh actors bringing the iconic 1977 film to life yn Gymraeg ahead of its 50th anniversary
'If I beat my pregnant girlfriend, openly write about how I'd like to have sex with children and ceaselessly fuel racism in the UK with my deeply toxic rhetoric -and I die - I hope you'll either be silent, or kind.'
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
I’ll be back at Highgate Cemetery on 17 November looking at its history as location for film and television Booking details here: highgatecemetery.org/events
Wonder if Sandifer’s going to talk about a “complicated legacy” with Rod Liddle?
LWT is 58 years old today so lets celebrate with a selection of their programmes as seen on the ITV Network.
Devastated about Dunwich, one of my favourite places. And for my fellow weird telly fans, that’s where Parkin finds the whistle…
National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 5d agoThis week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
People vote Reform because it enables their racism.
Stephen McGann@stephenmcgann.uk · 3d agoI want to go back to a country where people looked out for each other, you could leave your door open, and everyone knew right from wrong. That's why I'm voting for the sleaziest collection of corrupt f***ers the world has ever seen to do that for me.
Wonderful afternoon at the Curzon Mayfair to see the 4K @studiocanal.com restoration of Billy Liar, the perfect pitch of British New Wave realism and genuinely funny comedy. With Tom Courtenay himself in attendance, expertly hosted by @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Haven’t seen much about this so far but the Halloween line up at Quad in Derby looks superb. Incubus! Forgotten British Horror! @bronteschiltz.bsky.social! www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on?p=5
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Dunwich and the surrounding area is one of my most favourite places - I’m so sad about this. A pic from happier times.
National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 5d agoThis week, a wildfire has torn through Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, leaving the entire nature reserve devastated. An area of around 210 football pitches has been affected with rare habitats and wildlife lost in a matter of hours.
Tories beaten by Restore, which is basically one aging racist with a Facebook page. The Keminaissance in action.
Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social · 5d agoManchester mayoral results, first round Bev Craig - Labour 47% (+24 vs local elections) Reform 21% (-10) Green 12% (-7) Restore 9% (new) Conservative 8% (-3) Lib Dem 3% (-7)
I loved Duggan from City Of Death. They should have kept him on as a companion. Better still, he should have had a spin-off... RIP Tom Chadbon (1946-2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3L-...
Duggan (1979) | RIP Tom Chadbon | Doctor Who | Parody
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‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Much will rightly be made of Tom Chadbon’s Doctor Who appearances, especially City of Death. But his scream of “IT’S IN THE COMPUTER!” in The Stone Tape will be forever burned into my brain.
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat
Hello. The old Due signori bluesky is as dead as a cute sex worker who lives in the same block as Edwige Fenech. This is the new one. Our most recent episode is available here or wherever fine podcasts are streamed. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... 🎥 filmsky 🎬
Episode 52: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Podcast Episode · Due signori in giallo · July 9 · 1h
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