Anne Billson
@annebillson.bsky.social
Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
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Reading the recent Walter Murch book and he says originally Tom Hagen was supposed to die in GF3, so that each film had one of the brothers dying until only Michael was left.
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Reading the recent Walter Murch book and he says originally Tom Hagen was supposed to die in GF3, so that each film had one of the brothers dying until only Michael was left.
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I'm putting together a class on The Great Gatsby, so I finally got around to watching the 1949 version starring Alan Ladd, considered hands-down the worst of the four film adaptations — even worse than the lost silent version no one now living has seen. And hoo, boy, is it some piece of sticko!
February 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I'm putting together a class on The Great Gatsby, so I finally got around to watching the 1949 version starring Alan Ladd, considered hands-down the worst of the four film adaptations — even worse than the lost silent version no one now living has seen. And hoo, boy, is it some piece of sticko!
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I don't think ANYTHING (even Robert Duvall) could have saved GFIII. But if anything could have saved it, it would have been him.
February 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I don't think ANYTHING (even Robert Duvall) could have saved GFIII. But if anything could have saved it, it would have been him.
RIP Robert Duvall. I'll never ceased to be amazed at the way he never even flinches. Also, I have a theory that GODFATHER PART III might have worked if Tom Hagen had been in it.
'I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning' | Apocalypse Now
YouTube video by The Dollar Theater
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February 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
RIP Robert Duvall. I'll never ceased to be amazed at the way he never even flinches. Also, I have a theory that GODFATHER PART III might have worked if Tom Hagen had been in it.
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RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation
Plus she'll be able to drive again in two to three years! After killing a family of four by driving into a bus stop. Plus "she showed so much remorse that she immediately transferred all her properties and assets into an LLC so that she doesn't have to pay anything in a wrongful death suit."
Honestly, I am ok with not putting an 80 year old in jail. But take her license, and make sure it's for the rest of her life.
Also, fuck this goofy attorney talking about parties becoming adversaries. She killed a family! Of course their adversaries! And it's an adversarial court system!
Also, fuck this goofy attorney talking about parties becoming adversaries. She killed a family! Of course their adversaries! And it's an adversarial court system!
February 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Plus she'll be able to drive again in two to three years! After killing a family of four by driving into a bus stop. Plus "she showed so much remorse that she immediately transferred all her properties and assets into an LLC so that she doesn't have to pay anything in a wrongful death suit."
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Preview of this year's Offscreen Film Festival poster by Gilles Vranckx. Full programme to come later this week, but treats include:
EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983
HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO
ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
+ PREMIERES!
Brussels, 11-29 March
EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983
HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO
ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
+ PREMIERES!
Brussels, 11-29 March
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Preview of this year's Offscreen Film Festival poster by Gilles Vranckx. Full programme to come later this week, but treats include:
EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983
HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO
ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
+ PREMIERES!
Brussels, 11-29 March
EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983
HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO
ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
+ PREMIERES!
Brussels, 11-29 March
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‘Psychedelicatessen Owner’ by Bruce Conner from the inner sleeve of Terry Riley’s Music for the Gift.
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
‘Psychedelicatessen Owner’ by Bruce Conner from the inner sleeve of Terry Riley’s Music for the Gift.
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bodhi timeline cleanse 🫧
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
bodhi timeline cleanse 🫧
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I took a leap into the dark by purchasing the US rights to Dorothy Richardson's magnificent but woefully underappreciated autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage. Now that folks are reading our new edition, it's nice to hear that it was worth the effort. Available now:
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
February 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I took a leap into the dark by purchasing the US rights to Dorothy Richardson's magnificent but woefully underappreciated autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage. Now that folks are reading our new edition, it's nice to hear that it was worth the effort. Available now:
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
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Rose of Nevada - Official Trailer (2026) George MacKay, Callum Turner
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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February 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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My bank's 1st level support is now an anthropomorphised #AI 'specialist'. Worse even than the old, voice-activated tape service. Without exaggeration, it's like cajoling someone with advanced Alzheimer's into getting dressed. For hours.
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
February 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
My bank's 1st level support is now an anthropomorphised #AI 'specialist'. Worse even than the old, voice-activated tape service. Without exaggeration, it's like cajoling someone with advanced Alzheimer's into getting dressed. For hours.
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
"Can you put your sock on for me? Please?"
"I won't eat leeks!"
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@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.
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Thank you for the exotic powder - really nice.
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Thank you for the exotic powder - really nice.
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![[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.]
JOEL:
Honey… what are you doing?
BRANDI:
Can’t sleep
Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year.
While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition.
JOEL:
Brandi… you're talking strange...
BRANDI:
Dammit Joel.
It’s time you knew.
You're a Netflix character.
[Joel looks shocked]
BRANDI:
Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue.
Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the -
JOEL:
Stop explaining, Brandi!
[Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room].
JOEL:
So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and...
BRANDI:
Yep...
Warm/cool colour graded.
[Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]:
SECOND SCREEN
- A Netflix original -
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiaqlx75zejhvxpgq3f3k6mg2glczck3ooqjrgzzgfsf2xxo6fccwm@jpeg)
Better Tintin than The Smurfs.
Brussels Airlines launches new space-themed Tintin aircraft for its Belgian Icon series
Belgian boy reporter Tintin embarks on another globetrotting adventure thanks to Brussels Airlines’ new aircraft celebrating his lunar exploits.The timeless legacy of Hergé’s famous comic-strip charac...
www.thebulletin.be
February 16, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Better Tintin than The Smurfs.
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SUCKERS (kindle or paperback)
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
February 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
SUCKERS (kindle or paperback)
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
"Dark, sharp, chic and very funny" (Christopher Fowler)
"A superb satirist" (Salman Rushdie)
"distinctive, original and refreshing" (Kim Newman)
"Absolute drivel" (The Spectator, IIRC)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502547503
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Chicken thief, but early.
February 16, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Chicken thief, but early.
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STIFF LIPS (kindle or paperback)
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
STIFF LIPS (kindle or paperback)
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
"an absolutely terrific ghost story"
"engagingly creepy story of status anxiety in Notting Hill, where one flat appears to be stuck in a macabre capsule of its own sordid past amid the surrounding gentrification" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1502552485
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But it’s a personal taste thing. Remember talking to @naomialderman.bsky.social about classical music, and having to admit I had a blind spot for the formal perfection of Bach. Which is maths. And I suspect appeals to precise / mathematical brains. I like stuff to be romantic and sweeping, splashy.
February 16, 2026 at 8:49 AM
But it’s a personal taste thing. Remember talking to @naomialderman.bsky.social about classical music, and having to admit I had a blind spot for the formal perfection of Bach. Which is maths. And I suspect appeals to precise / mathematical brains. I like stuff to be romantic and sweeping, splashy.
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Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it
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Yesterday I watched Perfect Days. Wim Wenders' beautiful Tokyo story captures a yearning I think many of us feel for simplicity, routine, and the dignity of honest work - a kind of secular monasticism. Kōji Yakusho delivers the best "face acting" since Bob Hoskins. I loved every second.
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Yesterday I watched Perfect Days. Wim Wenders' beautiful Tokyo story captures a yearning I think many of us feel for simplicity, routine, and the dignity of honest work - a kind of secular monasticism. Kōji Yakusho delivers the best "face acting" since Bob Hoskins. I loved every second.
I would like to go to university and study the science of lipstick application and how one can achieve different shapes as the tube gets worn down (eg stub, spatula, spike, chisel) by varying the angle, amount of pressure, wrist action etc as you put it on.
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I would like to go to university and study the science of lipstick application and how one can achieve different shapes as the tube gets worn down (eg stub, spatula, spike, chisel) by varying the angle, amount of pressure, wrist action etc as you put it on.
Sandra Hüller for the win! (again)
‘Rose’ Review: Sandra Hüller Brings Blazing Vitality to a 17th Century Woman in Trousers in Transfixing Gender Performance Tale
Markus Schleinzer’s fine-grained portrait depicts a fictionalized composite character who passes herself off as a hardy male farmer, drawn from hundreds of comparable cases throughout history.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Sandra Hüller for the win! (again)