Craig Smiles
@craig-smiles.bsky.social
North Shields | Listening to music | Watching a film | Reading a book
Theme music by Richard O’Sullivan ⭐️
Robins nest Theme (1977-1981)
YouTube video by 70s British Sitcoms
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Veronica Lake by Bud Fraker, 1943. From a photo shoot for LIFE magazine, after being urged by The War Manpower Commission to give up her hairstyle for the duration of the war. 🔽
There's an in-depth piece about ex-wino turned chessmaster turned bestselling author turned pariah, John Healy, in the Observer today by Sean O'Hagan. Making a documentary about John's life radicalised me & made me viscerally understand the class system & how it can be weaponised. archive.is/7RkZA
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Goodbye to Babylon Berlin, the 1920s TV drama that has eerily foreshadowed real-life politics
Goodbye to Babylon Berlin, the 1920s TV drama that has eerily foreshadowed real-life politics
The long-running drama reaches Hitler’s rise to power in its final season as its creators reflect on the unsettling parallels between Weimar Germany and the present day
theguardian.com
Painting by David Hepher ‘Camberwell Flats by Night, 1983. Oil on canvas. Dimensions 199 × 230 cm.
Happy birthday to Elizabeth Fraser. Here are Cocteau Twins appearing as This Mortal Coil to perform Song to the Siren on Loose Talk in 1983
📰 “We’re occupied. We’ve been occupied by the police.” 42 years ago, Easington was the front line of the Miners' Strike. Keith Pattison’s photographs show what that meant for the families living there. 🔗 Read about the series on the Side blog: sidegallery.co.uk/blog/easi...
Women supporting the miners' strike, Easington, County Durham, 1984, photo by Izabela Jedrzejczyk (@sidegallery.bsky.social).
Louise from a portrait by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.
Coming soon from Eureka: Swedish noir! I'm very excited about this set, a labour of love from the acquisitions stage through to production (and all five films are incredible – not a weak one in the lot). Features Ingrid Bergman, Hasse Ekman, Eva Henning & Gustaf Molander. Perfect Noirvember viewing.
"[This] exquisite 2-disc collection pays monument to the undisputed giant of stop-motion animation, gathering two visually staggering, historically vital folk epics proving wooden puppets can express the full, tragic scope of human destiny" Cinemas Online review cinemas-online.co.uk/reviews/6a8d...
Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September
