Brian Davey
@brianmdavey.bsky.social
Writing & reviews in The Dublin Review, Stinging Fly and CIRCA Art Mag.
still enjoying The Chair Company but the needle drops are way too jarring
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
still enjoying The Chair Company but the needle drops are way too jarring
Reposted by Brian Davey
YES
Watching the Chair Company and I think Tim Robinson could actually do a decent adaptation of Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED.
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
YES
Watching the Chair Company and I think Tim Robinson could actually do a decent adaptation of Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Watching the Chair Company and I think Tim Robinson could actually do a decent adaptation of Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED.
Reposted by Brian Davey
EDVARD MUNCH (1974)
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
EDVARD MUNCH (1974)
Luc Moullet on cinephilia as the preserve of the man-child
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Luc Moullet on cinephilia as the preserve of the man-child
Rest in peace Peter Watkins. A filmmaker whose work was stridently intellectual and genuinely radical. But even at their most righteously indignant, his films felt like they came from a place of deep humanity. They could be remarkably tender too.
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Rest in peace Peter Watkins. A filmmaker whose work was stridently intellectual and genuinely radical. But even at their most righteously indignant, his films felt like they came from a place of deep humanity. They could be remarkably tender too.
"Everything that happens in our society—war, conquest, science, consumption, love, and child-rearing—are marked by the fact that they happen in capitalist time".
Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Future of Magazines… and the World
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.
www.thenation.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Everything that happens in our society—war, conquest, science, consumption, love, and child-rearing—are marked by the fact that they happen in capitalist time".
Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney:
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
lászló krasznahorkai
lászló krasznahorkai how to pronounce
lászló krasznahorkai best book
lászló krasznahorkai shortest book
family guy peter griffin funniest moments compilation
lászló krasznahorkai how to pronounce
lászló krasznahorkai best book
lászló krasznahorkai shortest book
family guy peter griffin funniest moments compilation
October 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
lászló krasznahorkai
lászló krasznahorkai how to pronounce
lászló krasznahorkai best book
lászló krasznahorkai shortest book
family guy peter griffin funniest moments compilation
lászló krasznahorkai how to pronounce
lászló krasznahorkai best book
lászló krasznahorkai shortest book
family guy peter griffin funniest moments compilation
my good pals and former video store colleagues, Reece and Bjorn, kindly invited me back on their podcast to talk about Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM (1999). Check it out 👇👇👇
open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...
open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
my good pals and former video store colleagues, Reece and Bjorn, kindly invited me back on their podcast to talk about Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM (1999). Check it out 👇👇👇
open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...
open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...
The Imagination is Currently Closed
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Imagination is Currently Closed
Sigmund Freud in a letter to Stefan Zweig:
‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’
‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Sigmund Freud in a letter to Stefan Zweig:
‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’
‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’
New writerly achievement unlocked (bought a copy of a lit journal I contributed to from a secondhand charity shop)
September 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
New writerly achievement unlocked (bought a copy of a lit journal I contributed to from a secondhand charity shop)
I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm at a loss for something to watch, I'll generally throw on the B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? documentary
August 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm at a loss for something to watch, I'll generally throw on the B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? documentary
Aki Kaurismäki on Terrence Malick: "The first one [Badlands] was OK. That was in the 1970s. After that they were Christian bullshit."
August 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Aki Kaurismäki on Terrence Malick: "The first one [Badlands] was OK. That was in the 1970s. After that they were Christian bullshit."
I feel like sitting in the middle seat on a aeroplane has supplanted the word "moist" as the most common thing people pretend to hate
August 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I feel like sitting in the middle seat on a aeroplane has supplanted the word "moist" as the most common thing people pretend to hate
Reposted by Brian Davey
Very moved by this sentence from an old obituary for Roger Shattuck:
"A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".
"A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".
July 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Very moved by this sentence from an old obituary for Roger Shattuck:
"A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".
"A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".
A real rogues gallery of chancers in this list (apart from Mary Gaitskill, she's cool)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Where authors gossip, geek out and let off steam: 15 of the best literary Substacks
More and more writers are publishing newsletters – but which are worth your time? From Margaret Atwood to Hanif Kureishi, George Saunders to Miranda July, here’s our guide to the best
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A real rogues gallery of chancers in this list (apart from Mary Gaitskill, she's cool)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
MUSEUM HOURS (2012)... what a picture
June 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
MUSEUM HOURS (2012)... what a picture
Do you even know if Tintin is supposed to be his first name? Or is it his surname? What about Captain Haddock's first name?
June 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Do you even know if Tintin is supposed to be his first name? Or is it his surname? What about Captain Haddock's first name?
fuck Mubi and their stupid statement. Cancelled my subscription today
June 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
fuck Mubi and their stupid statement. Cancelled my subscription today
I could easily be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. No problem
June 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I could easily be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. No problem
Very moved to learn that Sir Thomas Browne, author of Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial, coined the word "swaggy."
June 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Very moved to learn that Sir Thomas Browne, author of Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial, coined the word "swaggy."