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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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bodhi timeline cleanse 🫧
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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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...
February 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Very keen to see Rose of Nevada

youtu.be/RnADZMM0Gm8?...
Rose of Nevada - Official Trailer (2026) George MacKay, Callum Turner
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
youtu.be
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!"
February 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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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
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Thank you for the exotic powder - really nice.
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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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
February 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Chicken thief, but early.
One of my favourite ever lads: egg thief
February 16, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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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
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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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
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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
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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
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
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Coiffure (2026) photograph by Anne Billson
February 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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THE EX: A Ghost Story (kindle or paperback)
"a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat" #Caturday!
"as if Harold Lloyd had strayed into The Omen"
"clever, creepy, wickedly funny"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Gets me thinking, whose version of Wuthering Heights would you like to see? I want Park Chan-Wook’s.
I haven't seen the new Wuthering Heights so I can't give an opinion on it. What I've seen doesn't make me optimistic, but it does make me think how much I would have liked Ken Russell to have done a version, ideally in his hey-day, around the time of The Music Lovers and The Devils maybe...
February 14, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....

funded by automakers

because their cars were killing pedestrians

So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.

Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.

Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
ok this is a long shot. Yesterday or the day before, someone mentioned a book, about film I think, and I saw it was available on kindle despite (probably) having illustrations, and stupidly, I didn't make a note of it and have now forgotten what it is. DUH. Fairly recent but prob not spanking new.
February 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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BILLSON FILM DATABASE (kindle or pbk)
"Essential reading"
"the best film guide ever"
"The wittiest & funniest film reviews I've ever read"
"I would love to argue movies with this woman in a bar that stayed open late"
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546443118
February 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Anne Hathaway recently posted on her insta that more people should see her 2016 movie Colossal (available for free on Netflix in the USA or to rent from streaming platforms here). So I did. And she is right. boxd.it/d967Gv
A ★★★★½ review of Colossal (2016)
What starts as a strange tale of how a woman’s alcoholism in America appears to be connected to a rampaging monster in downtown Seoul becomes something at once darker, more surprising and yet sadly mo...
boxd.it
February 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM