Dr Kate Fitzgerald

@katefitzgerald.bsky.social

Writer, hound mother, goat botherer, film dingus, AuDHD, she/her. "Too shouty." - Everyone ever. http://raisingdemons.ghost.io https://boxd.it/1fUL

Harry’s Better Self To Be, painted by an individual identified to us only by the surname Dawe, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where they were compelled to live. This is one of four surviving works by Dawe and no biographical information is currently known to us about them

A colourful cartoonish painting in an untrained style of a brown Pekingese dog with pink tongue hanging out and huge eyes looking left, wearing a bright blue, yellow and red jacket and trousers tied at the neck with a red bow, a red leash snakes through the right hand side of the picture plane which is in landscape orientation, the dog taking up the whole of the rest

Because being an exploited child actor with a brand deal is such a singular experience, right? If Natalie is a fan, and the book turns out to be—rather than an amalgamation of sources—based solely on her life, she likely begged Cusk to tear her to shreds. I would.

Rachel Cusk’s New Novel May Be Dark Portrait of Natalie Portman

Unherd columnist Valerie Stivers suggests Cusk's ‘Life of M’ mines the Oscar-winning actor's life for a thinly-veiled portrait of the Hollywood star.

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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Julie Christie meets George C. Scott at a Janis Joplin/Grateful Dead Charity Stomp, tries to hook up by trauma dumping & telling him he looks like a gargoyle, fails, smash 'n grabs a tuba, goes back to his hotel in the morning and blasts it in his face.

...that's what happens in the first 15 mins of PETULIA (1968) dir. Richard Lester, 4 stars for that alone. My other last-watched films on Letterboxd were: NETWORK (1976) (rewatch) dir. Sidney Lumet, 5 stars; WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957) dir. Billy Wilder, 4.5 stars and ETOILE (1989) dir. Peter Del Monte, 3 stars.
Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald.bsky.social · 4w ago

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky I hope Emmanuel Schotté is out there living his best life.

Fave film for each year of the 1990s. 1990: An Angel at my Table 1991: My Own Private Idaho 1992: Twin Peaks FWWM 1993: Naked 1994: Queen Margot/TC: Red 1995: August in the Water 1996: Crash 1997: Princess Mononoke 1998: Love is the Devil 1999: Ghost Dog: TWOTS That’s quite a bleak one, innit?

optiMSTie@optimstie.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fave film for each year of the 1990s 1990: Treasure Island 1991: Delicatessen 1992: Hard Boiled 1993: Wilder Napalm 1994: Drunken Master II aka The Legend of Drunken Master 1995: Heat 1996 & OBVIOUS best in show: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 1997: Cure 1998: Dark City 1999: Bowfinger 🎥

Wanted to make a list but Letterboxd is down so here are my favourite horror films from every year of the 2030s. 30 I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This 31 Here We Come A-wassailing 32 Cassowarie 33 Frisbee 4D 34 Ouch! I’m a Woman! 35 Bin Day 1/2