Melanie Williams

@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social

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Norwich-based film and media prof. Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.

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Economics 25%

Political science 17%

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 5d

Steptoe and Son - Sunday for Seven Days (4th February 1964). Unsurprisingly, Harold and Albert have very different tastes when it comes to the cinema (Damaris Hayman guests as the ticket seller).

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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 11d

tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 12d

New object-of-the-week blogpost for BFI: production stills from A Private Enterprise www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...

Object of the week: Behind-the-scenes shots from the making of the first British Asian feature film

Film history was made in 1974, when cameras rolled on A Private Enterprise, which is believed to be the first British Asian feature film. These production stills capture the moment.

www.bfi.org.uk

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 13d

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 13d

We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.

AI can help us do that.

Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors

Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’

www.telegraph.co.uk

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 14d

Need to encompass Captain Bird's-eye, the jolly green giant, and various sexy Flake girls, I reckon

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 15d

Always enjoy the Sunday dozen (even more so when a thing I've done is in it)

Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 15d

The Sunday dozen

Laurel and Hardy, Errol Flynn and Ealing, action scenes and 'Happy Feet', Dolly Parton and the Boss, Jacques-Louis David and modern Gothic, Mark Carney and John Carey and more...

www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The Sunday dozen - Illuminations

John Wyver writes: As the world turns, every week can seem more extraordinary, and more distressing, than the last. As a tiny antidote to the hideousnesses elsewhere, here’s a selection of stuff that ...

www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 15d

The Sunday dozen - Illuminations

www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, it's a cracking read ☺️

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 18d

Littleworth was such a pivotal epoch-making figure ✊️

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 18d

Wonderful film!

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 19d

Yes I have! A very interesting intertext

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 19d

Archive poster chat for the BFI from me here: www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...

Object of the week: Ealing’s poster for the classic police drama The Blue Lamp

Introducing Jack Warner as hero copper PC Dixon, The Blue Lamp was the biggest British film of 1950. Did it help that this original poster moves the focus away from law and order to the criminal eleme...

www.bfi.org.uk

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Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social · 25d

It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.

For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...

Our Friends in the North

30 years on from the first episode of this groundbreaking drama, we take a closer look into the programme’s archive to reveal a time capsule of a turbulent era.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Jan 1

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · Dec 29

On BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds today, 11am. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - What Happened to Progress?, Forward Thinking

From technology to the climate to the global order, has human progress gone into reverse?

www.bbc.co.uk

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Dec 12

Earworm of the week!! (always on point) www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Hp...

NEW 📀 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones -4K- {DES Stereo} 1966

YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine

www.youtube.com

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · Dec 12

Yasujirô Ozu was born on this day in 1903 and died on this day in 1963.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Dec 12

These trees look like Jimmy Hendrix & Claude Monet did a collab, but this is just what the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) looks like every day: fabulous.

The only 'rainforest' eucalyptus, it's native to the Philippines & Indonesia, but introduced in Hawaii, Florida & California.

A photo taken from Smart Seeds Emporium. It shows the almost violent shades of fluorescent green, red, brown, orange and green that are exposed by the peeling bark of the rainbow eucalyptus.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · Dec 6

Netflix presents

UGARTE

A limited series that explains in laborious detail how Peter Lorre’s character in Casablanca obtained the letters of transit

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Dec 6

… and he SERVED ✨

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · Dec 2

Hooray!

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Dec 1

What a great film it is!

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Dec 1

Harsh. Take care, love ❤️

Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · Dec 1

I tell no lies when it comes to matters as serious as knitwear

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"Hi, I'm Graham off the Internet" 🔞🦀 (Crab Verified) @ipsumlorem.bsky.social · Dec 1

The best part of the (very very dry & solemniously academic) audio commentary for 1974's JUGGERNAUT comes at roughly 46m in, from Melanie Williams, Professor of Film 7 Television Studies at University of East Anglia;

"There's a lot of excellent sweaters in this film."

I couldn't agree more!

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · Nov 30

The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social

‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏

www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...

1. J. L. Carr - A Month in the Countr — Backlisted

In the first episode of a new podcast about books, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by novelist Lissa Evans and Unbound's Mathew Clayton to discuss J.L. Carr's A Month In The Country. If y...

www.backlisted.fm

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Bill Stinkwater @klausbromi.bsky.social · Nov 30

Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.

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The CineHistorians Podcast @cinehistorians.bsky.social · Nov 28

Episode S2E6 of the #CineHistorians Podcast is now available on YouTube! In this episode, we discuss Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki (1973), the history of Senegalese cinema, Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project and much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzd...

S2E6: Touki Bouki (1973) and Djibril Diop Mambéty

YouTube video by The CineHistorians Podcast

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