Michael Docherty
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Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.
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all time great email reply, rip
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
all time great email reply, rip
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My Top 25 First Watches of 2025 (non-2025 release or premiere year) in this thread:
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
My Top 25 First Watches of 2025 (non-2025 release or premiere year) in this thread:
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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
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Faye Wong in Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004)
She was BOTD in 1969
She was BOTD in 1969
August 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Faye Wong in Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004)
She was BOTD in 1969
She was BOTD in 1969
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CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
December 18, 2024 at 2:25 AM
CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
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‘“Badlands” may be the most serene film he ever made. A philosopher might have stopped then and there. But he was tickled by the idea of life as a moviemaker.’
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson · Cool Tricking: Terrence Malick melts away
Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
‘“Badlands” may be the most serene film he ever made. A philosopher might have stopped then and there. But he was tickled by the idea of life as a moviemaker.’
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson on Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A friend recently found out I hadn’t read Lonesome Dove and gave me one of those looks that said, “Have I misjudged you all these years?”
He was right. It is amazing. Like Cormac McCarthy if he wasn’t depressed.
He was right. It is amazing. Like Cormac McCarthy if he wasn’t depressed.
“Lonesome Dove was the kind of book Michael Korda had in mind when he said McMurtry would eventually write ‘the Moby-Dick of the plains’—a physically big book centered on a big subject.” —Thomas Powers
A Mighty Theme | Thomas Powers
Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is “the Moby-Dick of the plains”—the great book about the American West.
buff.ly
April 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A friend recently found out I hadn’t read Lonesome Dove and gave me one of those looks that said, “Have I misjudged you all these years?”
He was right. It is amazing. Like Cormac McCarthy if he wasn’t depressed.
He was right. It is amazing. Like Cormac McCarthy if he wasn’t depressed.
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I painted a cat in a bookshelf! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
April 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I painted a cat in a bookshelf! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
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Hp Lovecraft's "Rats is Stored in the Walls"
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hp Lovecraft's "Rats is Stored in the Walls"
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I was delighted to talk to 5-time Japanese Academy Award winner Sakura Ando last week, star of 100 YEN LOVE, SHOPLIFTERS, and GODZILLA MINUS ONE, who was in town for a 4-film retrospective of her work, as part of the 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
How Sakura Ando defied traditions to become one of Japan’s top actresses
The Godzilla Minus One and Shoplifters actress reflects on her career, juggling parenting, and future aspirations as she visits Hong Kong.
www.scmp.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I was delighted to talk to 5-time Japanese Academy Award winner Sakura Ando last week, star of 100 YEN LOVE, SHOPLIFTERS, and GODZILLA MINUS ONE, who was in town for a 4-film retrospective of her work, as part of the 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
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Had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Japanese actress Sakura Ando (LOVE EXPOSURE, 100 YEN LOVE, SHOPLIFTERS, GODZILLA MINUS ONE) last night about her eclectic career, studying English in Colchester & much more besides. She’s in town for an HKIFF retrospective. Feature for SCMP to come!
April 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Japanese actress Sakura Ando (LOVE EXPOSURE, 100 YEN LOVE, SHOPLIFTERS, GODZILLA MINUS ONE) last night about her eclectic career, studying English in Colchester & much more besides. She’s in town for an HKIFF retrospective. Feature for SCMP to come!
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mfw there’s a new From Software game
April 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
mfw there’s a new From Software game
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Fascinating interview with Michael Mann by one of the best film writers out there about one of my favourite Mann's, Thief
March 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Fascinating interview with Michael Mann by one of the best film writers out there about one of my favourite Mann's, Thief
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Doctor: You have eight hours, fifty two mins, and 27 seconds to live
Me:
Me:
March 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Doctor: You have eight hours, fifty two mins, and 27 seconds to live
Me:
Me:
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Kyle MacLachlan’s beautiful tribute to David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Kyle MacLachlan’s beautiful tribute to David Lynch
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Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship, pg. 333
December 17, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship, pg. 333
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Amazing FREE Carl Th. Dreyer online series from the Danish Film Institute
The Silent Dreyer
THEME. Carl Th. Dreyer’s film career spanned six decades, and it all began with Danish silent film. This article analyses Dreyer's career and the significance of silent films for the development of hi...
www.stumfilm.dk
December 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Amazing FREE Carl Th. Dreyer online series from the Danish Film Institute
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Rewatching THE THIN RED LINE and realizing my issue with Malick has been that I've always found the poetic existential stuff deeply moving but unsatisfying--but now I see the issue is that his protagonists have an inability to understand they, and we, are in history, and that it makes demands of us
December 16, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Rewatching THE THIN RED LINE and realizing my issue with Malick has been that I've always found the poetic existential stuff deeply moving but unsatisfying--but now I see the issue is that his protagonists have an inability to understand they, and we, are in history, and that it makes demands of us
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John Wayne's image, and these days his bad politics, have obscured the fact that he was an incredibly vulnerable actor
Rewatching the John Wayne western Rio Bravo, which you might imagine to be a cornerstone of anti-woke, and if you did you’d be surprised how much of the running time is three middle aged men talking about their feelings & how to process trauma. Also ‘horny confused John Wayne’ scenes.
December 15, 2024 at 3:12 PM
John Wayne's image, and these days his bad politics, have obscured the fact that he was an incredibly vulnerable actor