Jon Gamble
@jongrumble.bsky.social
Grizzly Socialist, retired civil servant, PCS ARMs member, CAMRA member, jazz fan and movie buff. No war but class war. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Four great films from directors at the top of their game. Don't ask me why it's taken me so long to get round to watching Slumdog Millionaire. It's just an embarrassing faux pas. Ditto A Taste of Honey with an aged 19 Rita Tushingham. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
It's no contest between two French cop thrillers this week: Inspecteur Lavardin is a gourmet dish with a twist while Un Flic is a tired heist movie aping Hollywood. Pressure is a high quality war drama. Watchers is a true folk horror classic. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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For meticulous story-telling, Cavalcanti's fifth column, wartime thriller takes the honours this week. Basic Instinct with an enigmatic Sharon Stone driving Michael Douglas to the point of distraction is probably Verhoeven's best film. A Kind of Loving is a visit to a sadly forgotten England.
A great selection this week. Sam O'Neill made top notch horror. Viridiana pulls not punches. But my film of the week is the wonderful restoration of Winstanley made on a shoestring in 1975. A forgotten rebel rescued from historical oblivion. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
A bunch of comedies this week - Sheep Detectives are top. But the Sands Film Club season for the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War goes on. Ken Loach's Land & Freedom rests on the mantle of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. My FotW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
A very strong field this week. JC is magnificent in Johnny Guitar. Battle Royale is Japanese scathing satire at its best. The Ear was banned in Stalinist Czechoslovakia and then forgotten. FWtBT romanticises Spanish Civil War but is my FotW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Louis Malle added gallic ennui to film noir. France cannot escape the lingering consequences of its imperial fiascos. Joris Ivens made The Spanish Earth was made before the hope for a new world was crushed. The film carries the fateful burden. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
The Petrified Forest is an adaptation of the smash hit broadway play from 1936. Howard fought off Hollywood execs from injecting their saccharine dope. He insisted on taking Bogart from stage to Hollywood. But Last Exit to Brooklyn is my FotW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
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The impacts of climate breakdown are already taking effect around the world. We need to build a fightback against the profit system driving us to disaster.
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The final scene of Modern Times has Chaplin's tramp and Goddard's gamin walking towards an uncertain future, down a long highway to a distant horizon - both with fixed rictus grins. Fred and Ginger would use glorious hoofing to escape. FotW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Shades of 1936. An incomparable Laughton as Rembrandt defying the philistine bourgeois conventions of his age. Da Sica's winning smile and Renoir's romantic outing capture a "lost moment". Chaplin's ghosts have never been exorcised. MT is FotW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Hayley Mills playing opposite Alan Bates in the grim-up-north Whistle Down the Wind is my film of the week. Film programming on TPTV is like BBC2 in the 1970s. Mr Polly is also a bit of a gem. The revival of Play for Today is inspired. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Film of the week is the languorous La Dolce Vita. Night of the Demon (English version) is one of the best horror films ever made. Au Grand Balcon (1949), a rare foreign film on UK TV, thanks to TPTV. Jean Rollin's Lips fails to impress again. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
I don't know how it is that I've never seen Our Man in Havana. Alec Guinness was a genius and Graham Greene's script captures the subtle nuances of Britain's imperial decline. A satire on the decline of imperial pretensions and what is next. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Eephus is a perfect elegy for US baseball - where it got late early. The Secret Agent should have won Best I.P. hands down. It led me to I'm Still Here - that won last year. Fernanda Torres is just wonderful. Catch both films if you can. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Takes a while to get on topic but definitely worth the wait..
90 Min Film Fest@90minfilmfest.bsky.social · 7mo ago✨ New Episode! 🎧 In ep161 Sam is joined by @kevinmcmanus.bsky.social and @matthewmcmanus.bsky.social, writers and directors of the multiverse-hopping film Redux Redux. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: pod.fo/e/3a7e19 They have chosen John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13... [1/2]
‘What fun we had storming the castle’: Billy Crystal pays tribute to Rob Reiner at the Oscars
Billy Crystal pays tribute to Rob Reiner at the Oscars
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David Thewlis gives an unforgettable performance as the vituperative anti-hero, Johnny, in Mike Leigh's darker-than-midnight, sub-bohemian, mouldy slice of 1990s London life, Naked. Misogynistic, misanthropic, relentless film of the week. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
In this poster for International Women's Day Biro emphasises women's role in the socialist movement. A strong, confident woman is shown striding out and holding the red flag of socialism, supported by columns of marching women.
Anne Bancroft was at the top of her game in The Pumpkin Eater, with a cryptic screenplay by Harold Pinter. Finally caught up with Unsane, starring Clare Foy who is locked up in a paranoid nightmare of perfect edgy horror - my film of the week. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
I was so angry with BAFTA for ignoring Palestine 36, a political decision to cover up British complicity in the Gaza Genocide. They live in a bubble. But my FOTW is Evil Does Not Exist, an enigmatic, poetic and haunting work. It will linger. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
I saw Man on the Tracks from 1956 from Sands Films Cinema Club (online), a film about railway workers and dangerous productivity squeezes. The film echoes the Polish October of 1956, a thwarted revolution against Stalinism. My FOTW. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
My FOTW is The Wrong Man by Alfred Hitchcock, starring a stoical Henry Fonda in a bleak true story of injustice with a downbeat ending. It bombed at the box office. Rob Roy is pure Walter Scott Highland romanticism - forget noisome Braveheart. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky
Peter Hall's cinematic poem Akenfield is also a trip back to the 1970s heyday of left wing British political film-making. FOTW. Union City was a neo-noir before the genre got going - a great film almost ruined by studio vandalism. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
One life tells the story Nicholas Winterton who helped to save 662 Jewish children from Prague under threat of Nazi occupation. Anthony Hopkins knows how to deliver a moving understated performance. But FOTW for me is Good Bye Lenin. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
El Greco's dramatic and mesmerising View of Toledo. ~1600. I love the threatening clouds, the hills seem about to swallow the town or perhaps slide into the Tajo below. This is one of the earliest examples of a landscape painting though not a true topographical representation.
Revisited The Field after a long time. A bravura performance from Richard Harris losing his grip on the land, his family and finally, his mind in conflict with Tom Berenger. John Hurt steals every scene he is in. A forgotten classic. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
CHAGALL'S BLUE... Most of the blue mixtures in Chagall's painting are predominantly made with cobalt blue. But he also used a lot ultramarine, and sometimes prussian blue. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, 1952 Color Lithograph, 68.5 cm x 49.8 cm.
