José Arroyo
@josearroyo.bsky.social
Teacher, critic; interested in all things film.
An excellent piece on all things Queen Kelly, by Paul Cuff, from the recent screening @cineredis.bsky.social therealmofsilence.com/2026/08/02/t...
(The Curse of) Queen Kelly (1929; US; Erich von Stroheim)
Many years ago, my old university was hosting a “film and philosophy” conference. Not having the interest or intellectual clout to submit a paper to deliver, I was nevertheless roped in to guide th…
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A new, more mature and beefier Spider-Man; a Spider-Man no longer a boy, and yearning. We bring a bit of The Odyssey into the discussion as well: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2026/08/02/4...
478 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. We’ve tuned out of Marvel on the podcast for a little while, but one of the eternally entertaining superheroes…
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As ever Richard and I loved attending this year’s edition of Cinema Rediscovered at the Watershed in Bristol. This is our day-by-day wrap-up: soundcloud.com/user-7660425...
Cinema Resdiscovered 2026 Wrap-Up
https://notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/31/cinema-rediscovered-2026-wrap-up/ As ever Richard and I loved attending this year’s edition of Cinema Rediscovered at the Watershed in Bristol. They do so many thin
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Os presento la cubierta de «La mente indómita. Poderes psíquicos, paranoia y cine fantástico». Libro oficial del Sitges Film Festival 2026, editado por Hermenaute. Ilustración de Dani Nefasto. Coordinadores: Jordi Sánchez-Navarro y Angel Sala #sitgesfestival2026
But at least it's not socialist
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last wk.Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.
From @hignfy.bsky.social on X The man almost sucked out of a Ryanair plane window was ‘only offered to rebook flight’. The airline admits it was an oversight; they meant to charge him extra for changing his seat mid-flight
The one where Mike and I disagree about The Odyssey: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2026/07/25/4...
477 – The Odyssey
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Realising his dream of shooting an entire film on 70mm IMAX stock, Christopher Nolan adapts Homer’s ancient Gr…
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A note on Aldrich's Hustle, which screemed at Cinema Rediscovered earlier today. notesonfilm1.com/2020/05/25/h...
Hustle (Robert Aldrich, USA, 1975)
A melancholic noir, imbued with sadness, about all the grey areas of feeling, and set in the dark netherworld of LA crime, prostitution, go-go bars, stag flicks. A girl washes up on shore, the verd…
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In Conversation with Gary Needham on Cruising (William Friedkin, USA,1980)
I can think of no one who knows more about Cruising (William Friedkin, USA, 1980) than Gary Needham. He’s already written extensively on Warhol, Queer TV, Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) a…
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Inspired by the cycle of Juan Antonio Bardem films at Ritrovato, Thinking Aloud About Film discusses his 1955 noir masterpiece, Death of A Cyclist: notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/19/t...
Thinking Aloud About Film: Death of A Cyclist/ Muerte de un ciclista (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)
Part of the Juan Antonio Bardem cycle of films screened at Bologna and available to see through a marvellous Criterion Edition. An adulterous couple run over a cyclist in a deserted road and run of…
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A note on Nicholas Ray's Party Girl: notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/18/p...
PARTY GIRL (Nicholas Ray, 1958)
In his magisterial work on Nicholas Ray, NICHOLAS RAY, AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, surely one of the greatest works on film studies, Bernard Eisenschitz writes that PARTY GIRL (Nicholas Ray, 1958) …
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Queen Kelly, the legendary 'cursed' film starring Gloria Swanson is having its British premiere on the 25th of July at the Watershed Cinema, Bristol. I talk to Pam about her marvellous book on the film to find out why it's taken 98 years to reach British screens notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/16/p...
Pamela Hutchinson on THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY (New York, Sticking Place Books, 2025)
When I read THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY, I wrote to Pam Hutchinson, its author: ‘I found it it so much fun to read — a rarity! And it’s narrative techniques, those one associates wit…
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Didn't think I'd ever say these words, but I just donated thirty quid to Count Binface. Please, could he defeat Farage? I'd laugh for a month @countbinface.bsky.social
What is the point of a Republic that doesn’t make the well-being of its citizenry its central focus ie what IS the point of the USA today?
Great cinema but not a good movie. Late to the discussion .... but a good one: notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/08/e...
Eavesdropping at the Movies: 476 – Disclosure Day
Steven Spielberg returns to science fiction with Disclosure Day, an ambitious alien thriller that consciously recalls Close Encounters of the Third Kind, still one of his defining films fifty years…
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Nigel Farage chooses theatre over justice and asks constituents to foot the bill of his evasiveness.
A note on ORPHAN, currently at the Midlands Arts Centre. notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/16/o...
Orphan (Lázló Nemes, 2025)
The only other Lázló Nemes that’s come my way previously is SON OF SAUL (2015) and I didn’t go see it because I didn’t have the stomach for another Holocaust film. Had I read more about ORPHANS bef…
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Don Siegel's "Edge of Eternity" was superb. It can't have been easy to shoot on such a low budget. The Canyon made for a spectacular backdrop. The chases were so well shot. Definitely an inspiration for some later Bond movies. I see what you mean by "termite art" @josearroyo.bsky.social
Now we know the true cost of Brexit, I do wish the people responsible, particularly those who knew better and were acting in bad faith (Farage, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, etc) were held accountable for the damage they caused the country at the service of self-iinterest. It's a form of treason.
How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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After a bit of a hiatus, Richard Layne and I return to the THINKING ALOUD ABOUT FILM podcast with a discussion of the films of Tarik Saleh. notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/13/t...
Thinking Aloud About Film: Tarik Saleh and The Cairo Trilogy
Richard and I were so excited after seeing Eagles of the Republic (2025), that when we learned that it was the third film in a trilogy, we made a point of seeing the other two: The Nile Hilton Inci…
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When someone tells you who they are believe them. Well, with Trump, the US has told us who it is, and the world believes and recoils with disgust. We also know that the US is not only what Trump represents but now it is up to the US to prove it.
On my fourth Tarik Saleh film in as many days. I'm obsessed: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/06/t...
Tommy (Tarik Saleh 2005)
What happens to the wives or girlfriends of gangsters? In film we see them making pasta, looking after children, held for ransom or shot. Cinema usually use them to create a tension between what th…
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Some thoughts on Tarik Saleh's THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/05/t...
THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT (Tarik Saleh, 2017)
A pitch-black Swedish noir, set in Egypt in the days leading up to the 25TH OF JANUARY REVOLUTION in 2011. The film begins in the streets of Cairo as Noredin (Fares Fares), a cop, extorts money fro…
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They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.
The Economist@economist.com · 2mo agoThe next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
A note on THE CAIRO CONSPIRACY, currently on I-player, and marvellous: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/05/t...
THE CAIRO CONSPIRACY/ BOY FROM HEAVEN (Tarik Saleh, 2022)
THE CAIRO CONSPIRACY/ BOY FROM HEAVEN (2022) is the second in a trilogy of films that culminates in EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC, the film that so excited me last week. This one confirms that Tarik Saleh…
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A note on the marvellous EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/03/e...
Eagles of the Republic (Tarek Saleh, 2025)
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC is my first Tarik Saleh film. I knew nothing about the film or the director when I saw it yesterday. But I returned home so elated from the film that I looked him up, found t…
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