Matt Page (he/him)
@mattpagefilm.bsky.social
Author/speaker on film. Wrote the BFI book "100 Bible Films". Also has soft spots for Italian cinema, silent movies, Pasolini, Rossellini, Straub/Huillet & HItchcock. Love a good podcast. NFP data geek by day.
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100 Bible Films (BFI Screen Guides) : Matthew Page: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Happy New Year everyone!
If your New Year's resolution was to read more books, or learn more stuff, then my book 100 BIBLE FILMS might be just the ticket.
It's wide-ranging, easy to read & beautifully illustrated. It also won an academic choice award.
Hope you have a smashing 2025!
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If your New Year's resolution was to read more books, or learn more stuff, then my book 100 BIBLE FILMS might be just the ticket.
It's wide-ranging, easy to read & beautifully illustrated. It also won an academic choice award.
Hope you have a smashing 2025!
amzn.eu/d/hKHgjQG
Weather's funny isn't it? We should talk about it more.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Weather's funny isn't it? We should talk about it more.
Just watching SAINT MAUD (Rose Glass, 2019) set and shot, with a good deal of intention, in Scarborough on the N Yorkshire coast. Does anyone know of any other films set / shot there?
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just watching SAINT MAUD (Rose Glass, 2019) set and shot, with a good deal of intention, in Scarborough on the N Yorkshire coast. Does anyone know of any other films set / shot there?
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Big news for April 2026!
If you have an interest in any aspect of film culture in the UK before 1930 consider sharing it at our groovy geeky event!
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 (Call for Papers)
The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. As usual, this one day event will feature a range of papers of original rese…
atthepictures.photo.blog
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Big news for April 2026!
This is the kind of shot that makes me want to co-author a paper on ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976).
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is the kind of shot that makes me want to co-author a paper on ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976).
The new Robin Hood series sounds interesting if only because it’s set during the rule of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Robin Hood review – Sean Bean gifts us the most gloriously bad TV offering of the year
It ticks every box you could wish for in your olde worlde trash: Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham, faerie smut … and not a bad wig in sight! Hurrah!
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The new Robin Hood series sounds interesting if only because it’s set during the rule of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
One to watch
"Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece" Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford) talks about silent cinema's depictions of Ancient Greece in this free online lecture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/housman-le...
Housman Lecture 2025
Presented by Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford): Cinematic gateways to ancient Greece
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
One to watch
The loss of an icon. Prunella Scales was more than a match for John Cleese playing Sybil in FAWLTY TOWERS
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The loss of an icon. Prunella Scales was more than a match for John Cleese playing Sybil in FAWLTY TOWERS
I followed this up by watching CARRIE (De Palma, 1976) unintentionally creating a weird double bill of 1976 films set in America about young women and the chasm between them and their mothers.
Eerie moment when the Twin Towers creep into the edge of the incredible final shot of Chantal Akerman's NEWS FROM HOME (1976).
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I followed this up by watching CARRIE (De Palma, 1976) unintentionally creating a weird double bill of 1976 films set in America about young women and the chasm between them and their mothers.
Eerie moment when the Twin Towers creep into the edge of the incredible final shot of Chantal Akerman's NEWS FROM HOME (1976).
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Eerie moment when the Twin Towers creep into the edge of the incredible final shot of Chantal Akerman's NEWS FROM HOME (1976).
Wait. Cheryl Hines who played Larry's wife Cheryl in the early season of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? That both makes CURB seem more believable & life less believable.
October 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Wait. Cheryl Hines who played Larry's wife Cheryl in the early season of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? That both makes CURB seem more believable & life less believable.
This seems to be the 1st English post about the incredible L'AGNELLO (The Lamb, Mario Piredda, 2019) which is available on @netflix.com. Wonderful compositions, scenery & an amazing central performance from 1st timer Nora Stassi.
October 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This seems to be the 1st English post about the incredible L'AGNELLO (The Lamb, Mario Piredda, 2019) which is available on @netflix.com. Wonderful compositions, scenery & an amazing central performance from 1st timer Nora Stassi.
It's been a long time since I last saw Rossellini’s ERA NOTTE A ROMA but this still makes me eager for a rewatch
Giovanna Ralli on the set of ESCAPE BY NIGHT 1960▪️ Director Roberto Rossellini▪️Photograhed📷Aldo Durazzi▪️
October 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It's been a long time since I last saw Rossellini’s ERA NOTTE A ROMA but this still makes me eager for a rewatch
This raises the question, if the Oscars had a "knitwear" category what would some of its past winners be?
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This raises the question, if the Oscars had a "knitwear" category what would some of its past winners be?
Time to watch Marco Bellocchio's
BUONGIORNO, NOTTE (Good Morning, Night), one of those films I own two copies of but haven’t seen yet…
BUONGIORNO, NOTTE (Good Morning, Night), one of those films I own two copies of but haven’t seen yet…
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Time to watch Marco Bellocchio's
BUONGIORNO, NOTTE (Good Morning, Night), one of those films I own two copies of but haven’t seen yet…
BUONGIORNO, NOTTE (Good Morning, Night), one of those films I own two copies of but haven’t seen yet…
Managed to get a copy of “Judeophobia and the New Testament” by @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social, @evandeneykel.bsky.social & @drmjcwarren.bsky.social. Read most of part 1 already and there’s some great stuff in there, from a good mix of scholars.
October 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Managed to get a copy of “Judeophobia and the New Testament” by @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social, @evandeneykel.bsky.social & @drmjcwarren.bsky.social. Read most of part 1 already and there’s some great stuff in there, from a good mix of scholars.
Today would have been the great Angela Lansbury’s 100th birthday, so here she is, 76 years ago starring as Delilah's doomed sister Semadar in DeMille's SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949).
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today would have been the great Angela Lansbury’s 100th birthday, so here she is, 76 years ago starring as Delilah's doomed sister Semadar in DeMille's SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949).
Great charity shop find today. A massive book of mainly images from lots of epic films (pre-1974). £5
[bluray disc included for scale]
[bluray disc included for scale]
October 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Great charity shop find today. A massive book of mainly images from lots of epic films (pre-1974). £5
[bluray disc included for scale]
[bluray disc included for scale]
Nice to flick on the TV and see @neilkbrand.bsky.social talking about Julie Andrews on Channel 5
October 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Nice to flick on the TV and see @neilkbrand.bsky.social talking about Julie Andrews on Channel 5
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Here's a brief intro for Scared by the Bible. Please pass along to anyone you know who might be interested in this book! youtu.be/URDPKuVZuGY
Scared by the Bible - Author Intro
YouTube video by Brandon Grafius
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Here's a brief intro for Scared by the Bible. Please pass along to anyone you know who might be interested in this book! youtu.be/URDPKuVZuGY
October 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Here are the five most selected films for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1907!
Thank you to my guests for the season:
@mattpagefilm.bsky.social
@lizclarke100.bsky.social
Sean Guinan
Agata Frymus
Randy Haberkamp
Thank you to my guests for the season:
@mattpagefilm.bsky.social
@lizclarke100.bsky.social
Sean Guinan
Agata Frymus
Randy Haberkamp
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Here are the five most selected films for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1907!
Thank you to my guests for the season:
@mattpagefilm.bsky.social
@lizclarke100.bsky.social
Sean Guinan
Agata Frymus
Randy Haberkamp
Thank you to my guests for the season:
@mattpagefilm.bsky.social
@lizclarke100.bsky.social
Sean Guinan
Agata Frymus
Randy Haberkamp
Make a band more alcoholic:
Radiomead
Radiomead
make a band more alcoholic:
Poitínage Fanclub
Poitínage Fanclub
Make a band even more alcoholic:
Tears for Beers
Tears for Beers
September 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Make a band more alcoholic:
Radiomead
Radiomead
Share some of the best eyes in movies
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Share some of the best eyes in movies
Share some of the best eyes in movies
September 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Share some of the best eyes in movies
I'm watching the Monica Vitti film "La ragazza con la pistola" (Mario Monicelli, 1968) and the rugby scene is surprisingly not-awful.
September 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'm watching the Monica Vitti film "La ragazza con la pistola" (Mario Monicelli, 1968) and the rugby scene is surprisingly not-awful.