Darrel Bristow-Bovey
@dbbovey.bsky.social
Screenwriter (most recently White Lies), author, public speaker, rugby watcher, lover of old movies
Latest book: Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
Latest book: Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
Darren Scott died this week. Many legends attached themselves to him, but i know this one is true, because I was there.
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Darren Scott’s Suitcase
I don’t know if Darren Scott really did invent the Suitcase. I haven’t thought of Suitcases in a long time, but now that I have, they’re a whooshing Proustian flashback to Johannesburg and the medi…
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May 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Darren Scott died this week. Many legends attached themselves to him, but i know this one is true, because I was there.
bristowbovey.com/2025/05/29/d...
bristowbovey.com/2025/05/29/d...
Thrilled Anora won the Oscar. One of my best movie-going experiences last year was watching it in Deauville, with a full house of 1500 people roaring with laughter, Francis Ford Coppola in the next row, a French woman in the row in front of me, breathless with anxiety and shouting at the screen.
March 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Thrilled Anora won the Oscar. One of my best movie-going experiences last year was watching it in Deauville, with a full house of 1500 people roaring with laughter, Francis Ford Coppola in the next row, a French woman in the row in front of me, breathless with anxiety and shouting at the screen.
They say that looking for delight makes you more likely to see it, more likely to live a life of delight. For the past several years of a very peripatetic life, I have been recording a delight a day, sometimes more: bristowbovey.com/daily-deligh...
Daily Delights
14 February 2025 (Friday) – Athens The bakery on the ground floor has filled its display windows with great big heart-shaped walnut cakes, iced all round in bright love-red or pure snowy whit…
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February 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
They say that looking for delight makes you more likely to see it, more likely to live a life of delight. For the past several years of a very peripatetic life, I have been recording a delight a day, sometimes more: bristowbovey.com/daily-deligh...
Favourite 10 movies watched in January:
The Apartment (1960)
Algiers (1938)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Little Darlings (1980)
The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Happy Prince (2018)
The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968)
Flight Risk (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
The Apartment (1960)
Algiers (1938)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Little Darlings (1980)
The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Happy Prince (2018)
The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968)
Flight Risk (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
February 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Favourite 10 movies watched in January:
The Apartment (1960)
Algiers (1938)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Little Darlings (1980)
The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Happy Prince (2018)
The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968)
Flight Risk (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
The Apartment (1960)
Algiers (1938)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Little Darlings (1980)
The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Happy Prince (2018)
The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968)
Flight Risk (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
White Lies is recommended by the Sunday Times, which means I finally have some return on my Times subscription.
January 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
White Lies is recommended by the Sunday Times, which means I finally have some return on my Times subscription.
It's winter in Morocco.
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's winter in Morocco.
Ireland will continue to be a good team for a while yet, but you do get the impression their golden age is just gently on the wane. It will happen to us all, one day.
November 30, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Ireland will continue to be a good team for a while yet, but you do get the impression their golden age is just gently on the wane. It will happen to us all, one day.
My first post here! Let's try out the piece I wrote this week about werewolves and playing rugby against England.
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Boks need to moer the English – in English!
Staying calm when South Africa takes on England is like trying to appease a werewolf when there's a full moon.
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November 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
My first post here! Let's try out the piece I wrote this week about werewolves and playing rugby against England.
www.vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-...
www.vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-...