David Morrison
@david-morrison.bsky.social
Digital Production Editor at BFI. Just as likely to post about other stuff. Film, architecture, art, design etc.
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Modern house on film: 10 films featuring modernist homes
As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
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Since I’m as likely to post about modernist architecture as film, may as well start with this recent article where I squeezed the current obsession into the day job: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/modern...
Went to Bristol recently and one of the advantages of a niche interest in modernism is that while the suspension bridge was heaving, both Clifton Cathedral and All Saints (with windows by John Piper) had not a soul to be seen.
October 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Went to Bristol recently and one of the advantages of a niche interest in modernism is that while the suspension bridge was heaving, both Clifton Cathedral and All Saints (with windows by John Piper) had not a soul to be seen.
Finally published in the Guardian, writing about Helsinki (no, I’m counting it!). Didn’t win the £200 though. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
‘Like it had been put on Earth specially for me’: readers’ favourite European city breaks
From the later summer glow of Marseille to polar nights in Tromsø, our tipsters choose their favourite cities
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October 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Finally published in the Guardian, writing about Helsinki (no, I’m counting it!). Didn’t win the £200 though. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Glad to see The Bear still experimenting with form and further developing its characters. Season 4 felt like they were back in the game, though for me nothing can still quite match Jimmy’s banana.
July 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Glad to see The Bear still experimenting with form and further developing its characters. Season 4 felt like they were back in the game, though for me nothing can still quite match Jimmy’s banana.
For anyone interested in art or architecture the Do Ho Suh exhibition at Tate is a must. The sheer painstaking patience of the man is incredible. A genuinely original show themed around the memories of places we’ve lived. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home
The internationally renowned South Korean’s diaphanous houses, coming to Tate Modern, embody the emotional imprint of where he has lived
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July 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
For anyone interested in art or architecture the Do Ho Suh exhibition at Tate is a must. The sheer painstaking patience of the man is incredible. A genuinely original show themed around the memories of places we’ve lived. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Looks like there are 3 tickets left. Run, don’t walk! bsky.app/profile/antb...
"Just passin' through": Monte Hellman's TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1971) is a stripped-down, well-tooled and finely tuned run (on empty) down a road to nowhere. Screens 6.20pm tonight in NFT3, BFI Southbank, for #Moviedrome. Sublime cinema! projectedfigures.com/2021/04/21/t...
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Projected Figures
Monte Hellman's existential road movie TWO-LANE BLACKTOP encapsulates a mobile generation lost in the rootless, directionless Seventies
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July 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Looks like there are 3 tickets left. Run, don’t walk! bsky.app/profile/antb...
Visited Villa Stenersen in Oslo recently, designed by Arne Korsmo for Munch’s biographer. It’s well worth a trip.
July 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Visited Villa Stenersen in Oslo recently, designed by Arne Korsmo for Munch’s biographer. It’s well worth a trip.
A long time ago i made the mistake of asking the price of a small print of Yoshitomo Nara in a gallery, thinking i might get it as a gift for my partner. I did not get the gift. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down houses
The Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that also includes more sombre – and still angry – work made since the Fukushima disaster
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June 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A long time ago i made the mistake of asking the price of a small print of Yoshitomo Nara in a gallery, thinking i might get it as a gift for my partner. I did not get the gift. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Cinema Rediscovered returns to Bristol with an 80+ event line-up of global film gems…
Last chance to pick up an early bird pass!
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Last chance to pick up an early bird pass!
www.watershed.co.uk/news/cinema-...
Cinema Rediscovered returns with an 80+ event line-up of global film gems
Cinema Rediscovered returns to venues in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wed 23 - Sun 27 July 2025.
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May 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Cinema Rediscovered returns to Bristol with an 80+ event line-up of global film gems…
Last chance to pick up an early bird pass!
www.watershed.co.uk/news/cinema-...
Last chance to pick up an early bird pass!
www.watershed.co.uk/news/cinema-...
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Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
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Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
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May 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
BFI Film on Film Festival opens for booking next week. Quite like the sound of a rare screening of Frank Perry’s (of The Swimmer fame) Fire Island set Last Summer. Oh, and i guess there’s also Star Wars from an original 1977 print. Might be popular? whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
BFI Film on Film Festival 2025
Welcome to the BFI Film on Film Festival where every film, without exception, is projected from a print.
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April 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
BFI Film on Film Festival opens for booking next week. Quite like the sound of a rare screening of Frank Perry’s (of The Swimmer fame) Fire Island set Last Summer. Oh, and i guess there’s also Star Wars from an original 1977 print. Might be popular? whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Having visited Picker House today, it was every bit as good as it looks. Impeccably kept modernist time capsule with an art collection including Hepworth, Calder, Miro, Rodin, Sutherland and more (or Moore). Worth booking one of the limited tours. www.stanleypickertrust.org/about
April 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Having visited Picker House today, it was every bit as good as it looks. Impeccably kept modernist time capsule with an art collection including Hepworth, Calder, Miro, Rodin, Sutherland and more (or Moore). Worth booking one of the limited tours. www.stanleypickertrust.org/about
Found a new house to add to this thread, and not one i’d ever heard of before - Picker House in Kingston. www.stanleypickertrust.org
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April 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Found a new house to add to this thread, and not one i’d ever heard of before - Picker House in Kingston. www.stanleypickertrust.org
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Love this local cinema in Stockholm that I covered for @dezeen.com: www.dezeen.com/2025/04/04/i...
April 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Love this local cinema in Stockholm that I covered for @dezeen.com: www.dezeen.com/2025/04/04/i...
It was only at the last line - ‘Dezeen has seen internal documents showing what appear to be designs for a building styled on a giant meatball‘ - that i realised what day it is. bsky.app/profile/cajs...
IKEA scoop on @dezeen today! www.dezeen.com/2025/04/01/i...
IKEA to build two-kilometre-long store that is "impossible to get lost in"
IKEA is working on plans for a linear store that would depart from the Swedish home-furnishings retailer's usual labyrinthine layout, Dezeen can reveal.
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April 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
It was only at the last line - ‘Dezeen has seen internal documents showing what appear to be designs for a building styled on a giant meatball‘ - that i realised what day it is. bsky.app/profile/cajs...
Went on a walk in Hampstead yesterday and discovered what has to be the nicest council estate I’ve ever seen. History of it here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/t...
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Went on a walk in Hampstead yesterday and discovered what has to be the nicest council estate I’ve ever seen. History of it here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/t...
Finally watched Close Your Eyes, and when Ana Torrent intones ‘Soy Ana’, echoing her debut over 50 years ago, it hit me like a wave, returning me not just to Erice’s earlier masterpiece but also to a 30th anniversary San Sebastián screening attended by the actress. Where did all the years go?
March 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Finally watched Close Your Eyes, and when Ana Torrent intones ‘Soy Ana’, echoing her debut over 50 years ago, it hit me like a wave, returning me not just to Erice’s earlier masterpiece but also to a 30th anniversary San Sebastián screening attended by the actress. Where did all the years go?
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IKEA x Severance www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/03/ikea...
March 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
IKEA x Severance www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/03/ikea...
It’s Eric Rohmer’s birthday, which can mean only one thing: I get to reshare my favourite BFI article, by @sam-wigley.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/features/80s...
80s fashion choices in the films of Eric Rohmer
Get inspiration for the 80s look with our trendspotter’s guide to the clothes in Eric Rohmer’s films of the 1980s.
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March 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s Eric Rohmer’s birthday, which can mean only one thing: I get to reshare my favourite BFI article, by @sam-wigley.bsky.social. www.bfi.org.uk/features/80s...
Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is playing at BFI next Thursday. Still feels so ahead of its time and well worth seeing on the big screen. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
March 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is playing at BFI next Thursday. Still feels so ahead of its time and well worth seeing on the big screen. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
About 15 years ago their original EP was worth over £100. I remember showing someone my still sealed copy (which i’d got for free) when asked what the most valuable record i owned was. As i showed them i promptly dropped it, knocking about £50 off its value. bsky.app/profile/theq...
The #BetaBand have reunited for a run of shows across the UK and North America later this year. They're also reissuing 1998's The Three E.P.'s in a deluxe vinyl set
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March 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
About 15 years ago their original EP was worth over £100. I remember showing someone my still sealed copy (which i’d got for free) when asked what the most valuable record i owned was. As i showed them i promptly dropped it, knocking about £50 off its value. bsky.app/profile/theq...
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This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.
February 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.
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Come work with us at MUBI! We're looking for a staff writer to join our Platform Editorial team in London. Please see the listing for more details ✍️ jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUBI/3fdfcbe...
February 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Come work with us at MUBI! We're looking for a staff writer to join our Platform Editorial team in London. Please see the listing for more details ✍️ jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUBI/3fdfcbe...
Although you shouldn’t expect a fictional narrative to stick to the details of someone’s (in this case Breuer’s) life, this article does touch on many of the things wrong with The Brutalist. Kept wanting Paul Thomas Anderson to step in and do it properly. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism
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February 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Although you shouldn’t expect a fictional narrative to stick to the details of someone’s (in this case Breuer’s) life, this article does touch on many of the things wrong with The Brutalist. Kept wanting Paul Thomas Anderson to step in and do it properly. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
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Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether
The Strange World Of… #Fugazi
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The Strange World Of… #Fugazi
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February 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether
The Strange World Of… #Fugazi
https://buff.ly/42Gt7PS
The Strange World Of… #Fugazi
https://buff.ly/42Gt7PS