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Jonathan Bygraves
@iambags.bsky.social
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Now available for pre-order...
Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain - Limited Edition.
Featuring: A Prize of Gold, The Last Man to Hang, Wicked as They Come, Spin a Dark Web, The Long Haul, and Fortune is a Woman. Plus a 120-page book and hours of extras.
Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/28fd32ep
Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain - Limited Edition.
Featuring: A Prize of Gold, The Last Man to Hang, Wicked as They Come, Spin a Dark Web, The Long Haul, and Fortune is a Woman. Plus a 120-page book and hours of extras.
Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/28fd32ep
Delighted to be part of this forthcoming @indicator.bsky.social box set of Columbia Pictures' British noirs, with an essay on Warwick Films' West Berlin-set crime drama A PRIZE OF GOLD (1955):
www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
Where's Emi Martinez when you need him? #WorldCupDraw
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Where's Emi Martinez when you need him? #WorldCupDraw
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If you're looking for an Udo Kier film to watch, may I recommend BACURAU (2019), starts off like a worthy slice of sociopolitical realism and ends up as demented Brazilian neo-western exploitation. Don't read anything else, just see it. Contains one of my favourite film moments of the 21st century.
Bacurau – Official U.S. Trailer
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If you're looking for an Udo Kier film to watch, may I recommend BACURAU (2019), starts off like a worthy slice of sociopolitical realism and ends up as demented Brazilian neo-western exploitation. Don't read anything else, just see it. Contains one of my favourite film moments of the 21st century.
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If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Crying for Freedom: Peter Watkins at 90
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remark...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Truly heartwarming to see the world of magazine publishing covering increasingly diverse interests
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Truly heartwarming to see the world of magazine publishing covering increasingly diverse interests
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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
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🚨Public Service Announcement
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨Public Service Announcement
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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Happy October—here’s a list of 100 avant-garde horror films I recommend, and links to watch the large majority of them.
100 Avant-Garde Horror Films
(and where to see them)
notreconciled.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Happy October—here’s a list of 100 avant-garde horror films I recommend, and links to watch the large majority of them.
New intake of Bristol University students so far not disappointing - just overheard one making reference to their old school chum "Marmaduke" #Marmaduke
September 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New intake of Bristol University students so far not disappointing - just overheard one making reference to their old school chum "Marmaduke" #Marmaduke
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Ellis Rosen is becoming one of my absolute favourite cartoonists.
September 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Ellis Rosen is becoming one of my absolute favourite cartoonists.
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
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A giant has left us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A giant has left us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
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I always think a hundred thousand fascists on the streets is a good time for a nominally left-wing prime minister to say something other than “I get it, I too have a flag in my house”
September 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I always think a hundred thousand fascists on the streets is a good time for a nominally left-wing prime minister to say something other than “I get it, I too have a flag in my house”
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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Hey #FilmNoir fans! Want to know what we're screening at this year's #FilmNoirFest in #Weston?! (31/10/2025 - 02/11/2025)!
Well... here you are! Please, do spread the word.
We recommend buying our festival pass early to avoid disappointment. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
Well... here you are! Please, do spread the word.
We recommend buying our festival pass early to avoid disappointment. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
September 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hey #FilmNoir fans! Want to know what we're screening at this year's #FilmNoirFest in #Weston?! (31/10/2025 - 02/11/2025)!
Well... here you are! Please, do spread the word.
We recommend buying our festival pass early to avoid disappointment. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
Well... here you are! Please, do spread the word.
We recommend buying our festival pass early to avoid disappointment. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
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On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese-American star Anna May Wong upended cinema
A retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the show
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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The Future, created by Betty Bebbington c.1965, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a small number of her mostly abstract surviving works, several of which feature these drifts & vortices of darkness with notations in her own hand
This is one of a small number of her mostly abstract surviving works, several of which feature these drifts & vortices of darkness with notations in her own hand
September 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The Future, created by Betty Bebbington c.1965, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey where she was compelled to live.
This is one of a small number of her mostly abstract surviving works, several of which feature these drifts & vortices of darkness with notations in her own hand
This is one of a small number of her mostly abstract surviving works, several of which feature these drifts & vortices of darkness with notations in her own hand
Delighted to be part of this forthcoming @indicator.bsky.social box set of Columbia Pictures' British noirs, with an essay on Warwick Films' West Berlin-set crime drama A PRIZE OF GOLD (1955):
www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
Now available for pre-order...
Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain - Limited Edition.
Featuring: A Prize of Gold, The Last Man to Hang, Wicked as They Come, Spin a Dark Web, The Long Haul, and Fortune is a Woman. Plus a 120-page book and hours of extras.
Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/28fd32ep
Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain - Limited Edition.
Featuring: A Prize of Gold, The Last Man to Hang, Wicked as They Come, Spin a Dark Web, The Long Haul, and Fortune is a Woman. Plus a 120-page book and hours of extras.
Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/28fd32ep
August 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Delighted to be part of this forthcoming @indicator.bsky.social box set of Columbia Pictures' British noirs, with an essay on Warwick Films' West Berlin-set crime drama A PRIZE OF GOLD (1955):
www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
Going to have a Holter monitor test to see what's been giving me heart palpitations, which I'm imagining is like the film CRANK (2006) if CRANK (2006) involved Jason Statham "eating slightly too many carbs" and "getting out of a chair too fast"
August 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Going to have a Holter monitor test to see what's been giving me heart palpitations, which I'm imagining is like the film CRANK (2006) if CRANK (2006) involved Jason Statham "eating slightly too many carbs" and "getting out of a chair too fast"
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I saw Terence Stamp interviewed at the BFI some years ago. There was a pause after each question that never felt like an awkward silence. Rather he was thinking very carefully about both the question & his answer, which was always worth the wait. I came away admiring him even more than I did already
August 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I saw Terence Stamp interviewed at the BFI some years ago. There was a pause after each question that never felt like an awkward silence. Rather he was thinking very carefully about both the question & his answer, which was always worth the wait. I came away admiring him even more than I did already
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A cracking list from @marbleicehook.bsky.social. The Czech time-travelling farce Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) is the most delightful Hitler-related film you're ever likely to see.
10 great Eastern European sci-fi films
From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from Easter...
www.bfi.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A cracking list from @marbleicehook.bsky.social. The Czech time-travelling farce Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) is the most delightful Hitler-related film you're ever likely to see.