John Bleasdale
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Magic Hours - Malick Visible Darkness - Glazer Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts Connery A Novel https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
One thing i love about #Locarno is The Retrospective I spoke with Ehsan Khoshbakht, the ever stylish and eloquent curator for Variety variety.com/2026/film/gl...
‘The Blacklist Was a Plague’: Locarno Retrospective Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht Talks About What We Can Learn From the Intolerance of the Past
This year's retrospective explores one of the most shameful episodes in Hollywood history: the blacklist drawn up during the Red Scare.
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Just arrived in Locarno to discover my favorite animal is a feature of the hotel room. A win.
One year after publication, it's sincerely heartwarming to see this picture from one of Demme's PA's on Philadelphia and Beloved. Enjoy the book, Brian!
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Thrilled to have written the accompanying essay for @criterion.bsky.social’s release of "Resurrection," Bi Gan’s enrapturing treatise on cinema, modern Chinese history, and the collective human experience. Out on Blu-ray and DVD April 21st www.criterion.com/films/35491-...
In which I talk to Vicky Krieps about life and failing and Love Me Tender www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
Vicky Krieps, the woman who won’t play along
The Love Me Tender star on method acting, motherhood and refusing to fit in
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The inability of the media to handle Trump after how many years of his shit can be seen in continued headlines such as “Trump believes deal to be close” when everyone knows he’s lying.
Gary Oldman's Intense Expressions
Alt: Gary Oldman's Intense Expressions Shouting Everyone
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I think icebergs would be better named icemountains because they look like literal mountains of ice. But maybe the mountain bit could be in German so it’s shorter.
This is excellent. His essay on the fact that the West doesn’t exist is truly eye-opening and convincing.
Available to preorder The Great Unwatched A collection of must sees that don’t get enough love (and yes I’m writing about The Big Bus) @plumeriapics.bsky.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
The Great Unwatched (Paperback)
🚨 OUT NOVEMBER 2 🚨 PRE-ORDER NOW 🚨 A Must-Have Collection of 200 Must-See Movies You May Have Missed. Chosen by Critics. Edited by David Hughes. Chosen by some of the best film critics working today, ...
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I will be in conversation with Zoe Saldaña when she will receive a special honorary Pardo from the Locarno Film Festival. www.locarnofestival.ch/en/festival/...
If you're heading to Locarno, I will be in conversation with Sigurjón "Joni" Sighvatsson on Friday and 10:30 www.locarnofestival.ch/en/festival/...
Embers by SÁNDOR MÁRA was to be filmed by Milos Forman with Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer & Winona Ryder. Perhaps a superior & more fitting end to his career but was not to be. The book is a work of sustained beautiful melancholy
Not jumping into a reply when I see a post I disagree with releases so many endorphins it should be illegal.
Writers on Film: A Hard Day’s Night I talk about Richard Lester’s film with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social And her BFI Classics book on the film open.spotify.com/episode/6ucZ...
A Hard Day's Night with Samira Ahmed
Writers on Film · Episode
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Because of an administrative merger between our village and another some street names are duplicated including ours. This means we were asked for some suggestions. Apparently mine is being put forward which if it is approved would be amazing because I would then live on Via Sergio Leone.
Writers on Film: A Hard Day’s Night I talk about Richard Lester’s film with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social And her BFI Classics book on the film open.spotify.com/episode/6ucZ...
A Hard Day's Night with Samira Ahmed
Writers on Film · Episode
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When you’re famous. You can do anything. You can just grab Jesus by the crossy
I really feel like in a decade we're all going to look back and say "remember when we had an internet?" Every facet of using a computer is going to be so locked down by government controls that it's only functionality will be watching Netflix and ordering from Amazon.
It’s kind of weird that a new Steven Spielberg came out a couple of months ago; was a big commercial success and then plopped right through the discourse pond without leaving a ripple.
Oh sorry my mistake. It was from Old Custer by Eli Cash
John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · 4d ago“The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“Enjoying” this book though the cover makes me hear the opening theme from Mad Men
“The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
