PaulAJoyce v2.0
@pauljoyce07.bsky.social
I write about silent film and theatre when I’m not publishing, cycling, walking or listening. Also Liverpool Football Club. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
Queen Kelly @BFI splendid introduction from Pamela Hutchinson & ace accompaniment from Neil Brand. So much to say there needs to be a book on it and, luckily there is from PH! Astonishing cinema and an amazing story of three almost immovable objects! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/09/unfi...
Unfinished empathy? Queen Kelly (1929), BFI with Neil Brand and Pamela Hutchinson
A work of barbaric splendour… LA Times Culture doesn’t exist in a vacuum and I don’t just mean Ed Sheeran here. There was a blea...
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“You can tell by what Kushner and Witkoff are saying that they don’t understand a lot of the technical issues…” A friend of Kushner’s was blunter: “He’s a lovely guy, but he is way the fuck out of his depth.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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My country has achieved the feat of making the most universally loved and respected charity in the land afraid for its own safety. And yet the dark pantomime of aggressive grievance and its media legitimation continues. If Hippocrates is a traitor for not cherry-picking lives, then are doctors next?
Giving this southwest London band a go… are they as good as The Kinks or The Who?
A post written underwater using speedos and a water-proof pen and paper. JE Williamson's amazing sub-aquatic adventures! Another from this year’s Bonner Stummfilmtage and this one with an excellent score from Frank Bockius and Stephen Horne! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/09/1200...
12,000 mm under the sea… Wonders of the Sea (1922), Horne and Bockius, Bonn Silent Film Festival 2026
J.E. Williamson's career is emblematic of a period in filmmaking, long past, when pioneers were part-scientist, part-showman and part-prom...
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The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.
Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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Ah, that would be the devout Christian soul I was reading about this morning, yes? www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Judge Darkness@marvth3martian.bsky.social · 3w agoOh. My. Word. @sturdyalex.bsky.social @reformexposed.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...
I do love a new Jake Arnott! Folk horror you say? And he did the mash? He did the monster mash?
David Quantick@quantick.bsky.social · 4w agoWent to the launch of Jake Arnott's brilliant Hastings folk horror novel NETHERWOOD and saw many friends, plus the author performing the Monster Mash.
My friends and their experience with unaccountable #SEND provision driven by profit and not a duty of care. “Our kids have become a moneymaking tool for these companies and they squeeze it, because they know that, ultimately, they can walk away.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Alarm bells were going off’: parents tell of ordeal at Send school closed down after abuse allegations
Annette and Kevin Maxwell say children with special needs have become moneymaking tool for private companies
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Brand new thought arrows shot from my brain bow Why does Hollywood always get the Beatles wrong? @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
Why does Hollywood keep getting the Beatles wrong?
The answer is that no one can possibly play the Fab Four as well as they played themselves
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10 acts you've seen as support acts: Mudhoney (Sonic Youth) Firehose (Sonic Youth) Pavement (Sonic Youth) Steve Albini (Sonic Youth) Nirvana* (Sonic Youth) Babes in Toyland (Sonic Youth) Pixies (Throwing Muses) Throwing Muses (Pixies) Sundays (Throwing Muses) Throwing Muses (REM) *In bar.
David Quantick@quantick.bsky.social · 4w ago10 acts you've seen as support acts: The Police (Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias) Radiohead (Cardiacs) Joy Division (Buzzcocks) Suede (Morrissey) OMD (Talking Heads) Thompson Twins (Teardrop Explodes) Sonic Youth (Mudhoney) Ramones (U2) Elvis Costello (everyone, every night, in 1985)
More from Internationale Bonner Stummfilmtage - Die große Sehnsucht (1930). Starring Camilla Horn & over 30 stars of Weimar cinema including Conrad Veidt, Anny Ondra, Lil Dagover, Gustav Diessl & many more! A fun film with some fabulous "extras"! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/show...
Show people… Die große Sehnsucht (1930), Bonn Silent Film Festival 26
Camilla Horn Quiet! Sound recording in process! I love films about film and the silent era had some excellent examples from Eleanor ...
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New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social Is the Iran War the most stupid of all time? By comparing it other stupid wars (Iraq, Suez) we can get a sense of the level of damage it could do the US in the long-run. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/good-wars-...
Good Wars, Bad Wars, and Stupid Wars
Could the war in Iran do even more damage to the US than Iraq?
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First post from this year's Internationale Bonner Stummfilmtage stream with the magnificent Ellen Richter and accompaniment from Elizabeth-Jane Baldry and Stephen Horne! This is the last time I miss this festival in person!! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/crim...
Crime & Punishment… Schatten der Weltstadt (1925), Horne & Baldry, Bonn Silent Film Festival 2026
When night sets on the big city And lights and make-up and laughter mingle Then, from streams and deceptive pomp emerge The shadow...
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#film #comedy #Laurel&Hardy #EurekaEntertainment #MastersOfCinema Lovely piece of writing by @pauljoyce07.bsky.social. Thank you Paul. We (me and The Husbando, @dcairns.bsky.social) had a blast making our contribution to the extras. ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/high...
High and Dizzy… Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years (1929), Masters of Cinema Blu-ray
This is the one boys and girls; this is the one… Following on from their definitive collections of Laurel & Hardy’s silent classics fro...
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Out on 17th, a BFI blu-ray debut for the BBC's 4K restoration. One of the very best of the Play for Today series with outstanding performances and Mike Leigh brilliance. Not to be missed! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/here...
Here we gather... Nuts in May (1976), BFI Blu-ray Out Now
In my office, packed floor to ceiling with home media – digital, analogue, paper, plastic and vinyl – it’s easy to forget the time when ...
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I only bought this yesterday. Looking forward to digging into it (alongside the previous two volumes).
PaulAJoyce v2.0@pauljoyce07.bsky.social · last mo.It's 1929 and Laurel & Hardy are at their peak and about to make even more noise. This is some of their finest work and Eureka Entertainment have - once again - done them proud. Masters of Cinema indeed! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/high...
Out on 17th, a BFI blu-ray debut for the BBC's 4K restoration. One of the very best of the Play for Today series with outstanding performances and Mike Leigh brilliance. Not to be missed! ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/here...
Here we gather... Nuts in May (1976), BFI Blu-ray Out Now
In my office, packed floor to ceiling with home media – digital, analogue, paper, plastic and vinyl – it’s easy to forget the time when ...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
It's 1929 and Laurel & Hardy are at their peak and about to make even more noise. This is some of their finest work and Eureka Entertainment have - once again - done them proud. Masters of Cinema indeed! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/08/high...
High and Dizzy… Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years (1929), Masters of Cinema Blu-ray
This is the one boys and girls; this is the one… Following on from their definitive collections of Laurel & Hardy’s silent classics fro...
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com
Early Genesis: Forthwith then the squally birds Lie leaguing with the heron's child And grommels raise and fall Late Genesis: Touch me baby Ooh yeah that's the place (x 6)
Captain Howdy@captainhowdy.bsky.social · 2mo agoEarly Pink Floyd: Cats are all right Hear their paws upon your floors They have no thumbs & lick their bums Hear them cry when facing closed doors. Late Pink Floyd: Despite the pomp & the pageantry Of his right Royal Majesty He still took my daddy from me Ashes. Insanity. Blah-blah, all tragedy.
Local Gossip, painting by Salford-born Bob Richardson (b.1938).
This is new to me but it’s ace, with Jane Horrocks singing the post-punk songs of her youth. Gang of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division - fab choices from Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and all points North. Plus, The Damned’s Rat Scabies on drums!! Needs a re-release!
