Nick James
@filmnickjames.bsky.social
Writer, former Editor of Sight and Sound magazine. A rock singer last century. A choir member now.
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... Here is my Sight and Sound review of Gianfranco Rosi’s BELOW THE CLOUDS.
Below the Clouds review: Shadows over Naples
Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... Here is my Sight and Sound review of Gianfranco Rosi’s BELOW THE CLOUDS.
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when she had her job at msnbc i was always frustrated because i could see her biting her tongue and then finally boiling over and they could not contain her, now that she is free and easy she is a lot more fun to watch. and i am "spicy" AF 🤍☪️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
when she had her job at msnbc i was always frustrated because i could see her biting her tongue and then finally boiling over and they could not contain her, now that she is free and easy she is a lot more fun to watch. and i am "spicy" AF 🤍☪️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
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9/3/93: Kieslowski's astonishing Blue, w/Juliette Binoche
Our feature on Blue, the 3 Colors & Mr. K via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
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Our feature on Blue, the 3 Colors & Mr. K via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
9/3/93: Kieslowski's astonishing Blue, w/Juliette Binoche
Our feature on Blue, the 3 Colors & Mr. K via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
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@filmnickjames.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@davidehrlich.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/features/gen...
Our feature on Blue, the 3 Colors & Mr. K via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
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@filmnickjames.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@davidehrlich.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/features/gen...
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BOTD Nicolas Roeg!! MCCT5: 5)Walkabout 4)Performance 3)Bad Timing 2)Man Who Fell to Earth 1)Don't Look Now
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How Nicolas Roeg Broke Movies—and Rebuilt Them in His Own Image
At their best, the director’s masterpieces like ‘Walkabout’ and ‘Don’t Look Now’ added up not to a complete picture but a kind of Rorschach test
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August 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
BOTD Nicolas Roeg!! MCCT5: 5)Walkabout 4)Performance 3)Bad Timing 2)Man Who Fell to Earth 1)Don't Look Now
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@filmnickjames.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Jason Wood: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
@brofromanother.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2018/11/26/m...
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@filmnickjames.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Jason Wood: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
@brofromanother.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2018/11/26/m...
David Stratton, Australia’s star TV critic of films, was already white-haired and grandfatherly when I met him in the 1990s. I broke bread with him often and he was great, encouraging, supportive company, full of tales of festivals in the 1960s laced with wicked humour. I already miss him. RIP
August 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
David Stratton, Australia’s star TV critic of films, was already white-haired and grandfatherly when I met him in the 1990s. I broke bread with him often and he was great, encouraging, supportive company, full of tales of festivals in the 1960s laced with wicked humour. I already miss him. RIP
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BOTD Peter Yates!! D key 60s/70s films incl Robbery, Bullitt, Friends of Eddie Coyle, more.
From us: "On Location in the New Hollywood": drive.google.com/file/d/1OHuj...
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Peter Yates, 1929-2011
Nick James on the transatlantic genre specialist, from Summer Holiday to Bullitt and The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BOTD Peter Yates!! D key 60s/70s films incl Robbery, Bullitt, Friends of Eddie Coyle, more.
From us: "On Location in the New Hollywood": drive.google.com/file/d/1OHuj...
More:
@peterhartlaub.bsky.social: www.sfgate.com/movies/artic...
@filmnickjames.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
From us: "On Location in the New Hollywood": drive.google.com/file/d/1OHuj...
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@peterhartlaub.bsky.social: www.sfgate.com/movies/artic...
@filmnickjames.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Here's my slightly belated review of F1 The Movie for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social . www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
F1 the Movie review: maximum thrills, minimal story
Brad Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a veteran racer and former gambling addict who is lured back to the track for one last Grand Prix season in this high-octane, logo-strewn blockbuster-advert for Formula...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Here's my slightly belated review of F1 The Movie for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social . www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Today my book on Michael Mann's film Heat is published. Anyone who loves it will find plenty to enjoy and argue with in this quick hit of a read. It's not just a fan's appreciation, but a probing critical study. My thanks to @rebbarden.bsky.social and the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social team.
June 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Today my book on Michael Mann's film Heat is published. Anyone who loves it will find plenty to enjoy and argue with in this quick hit of a read. It's not just a fan's appreciation, but a probing critical study. My thanks to @rebbarden.bsky.social and the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social team.
Here’s my BFI tribute to the great documentarian Marcel Ophuls www.bfi.org.uk/features/mar...
Marcel Ophuls obituary: veteran documentary-maker behind the monumental The Sorrow and the Pity
Ophuls’ most notorious documentary is his four-hour epic The Sorrow and the Pity, which controversially unpicked the reality of France’s history under Nazi occupation.
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May 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Here’s my BFI tribute to the great documentarian Marcel Ophuls www.bfi.org.uk/features/mar...
This second edition of my BFI book on Heat is published 12th June is proofread and edited to a higher standard than the first; the stills are better quality and in an afterword I ponder changes in film reviewing fashions, Heat's continuing influence, the Heat 2 novel Mann is hoping to film and more.
May 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This second edition of my BFI book on Heat is published 12th June is proofread and edited to a higher standard than the first; the stills are better quality and in an afterword I ponder changes in film reviewing fashions, Heat's continuing influence, the Heat 2 novel Mann is hoping to film and more.
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal may be just one of tens of thousands of victims of Israeli state violence but his symbolic importance is huge. Please sign this petition. www.change.org/p/global-fil...
Sign the Petition
Global Filmmakers call for the release of Hamdan Ballal
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March 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal may be just one of tens of thousands of victims of Israeli state violence but his symbolic importance is huge. Please sign this petition. www.change.org/p/global-fil...
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Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Global Filmmakers call for the release of Hamdan Ballal
chng.it
March 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM
I was lucky to get this image on my iPhone yesterday while visiting @londonzoo.bsky.social with my granddaughter Alba.
March 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I was lucky to get this image on my iPhone yesterday while visiting @londonzoo.bsky.social with my granddaughter Alba.
This splendid edition also contains my review of Walter Salles's excellent film I'm Still Here, starring the phenomenal Fernanda Torres.
David Lynch, 1946-2025
Our new issue pays tribute to one of cinema's true visionaries, with a previously unpublished interview with Lynch, filmmaker tributes and more
See what else is inside below and here: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Order your copy here: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Our new issue pays tribute to one of cinema's true visionaries, with a previously unpublished interview with Lynch, filmmaker tributes and more
See what else is inside below and here: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Order your copy here: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
February 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This splendid edition also contains my review of Walter Salles's excellent film I'm Still Here, starring the phenomenal Fernanda Torres.
“where is Sadiq Khan? Why isn’t Labour speaking about this rapacious gutting of London’s heartland, which began when Boris Johnson was mayor?” Kate Mossman with a must-read in New Statesman on the @princecharlescinema.com #SavethePCC
The Prince Charles Cinema and the death of the West End
No city has as flagrant a disregard for its own culture as London.
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February 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When I joined this platform 2 months ago I anticipated some of the political pain Americans would go through (and yes, some is coming the UK’s way soon, I’m sure) but the flow of alarm and numb despair at so much wilful destruction here is truly hard to witness. I wish you all strength.
February 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
When I joined this platform 2 months ago I anticipated some of the political pain Americans would go through (and yes, some is coming the UK’s way soon, I’m sure) but the flow of alarm and numb despair at so much wilful destruction here is truly hard to witness. I wish you all strength.
Londoners and visitors, please sign the petition.
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Londoners and visitors, please sign the petition.
This new 'bookazine' from @sightsoundmag.bsky.social is an unmissable goldmine for Akerman fans. Among many treats it contains my 2001 interview with her for La Captive, in which she was on brilliant, incisive form.
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This new 'bookazine' from @sightsoundmag.bsky.social is an unmissable goldmine for Akerman fans. Among many treats it contains my 2001 interview with her for La Captive, in which she was on brilliant, incisive form.
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having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia
January 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia
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Thank the lord for Private Eye
January 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Thank the lord for Private Eye
This obituary is for someone very dear to me, my wife Kate Ogborn’s mother Jane, a wise literary intellect who eventually accepted me into the most impressive and beloved clan it has been my honour to know. My thanks to Kate’s brother Miles for a fine summation. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Jane Ogborn obituary
Other lives: Teacher committed to making English literature accessible to all
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This obituary is for someone very dear to me, my wife Kate Ogborn’s mother Jane, a wise literary intellect who eventually accepted me into the most impressive and beloved clan it has been my honour to know. My thanks to Kate’s brother Miles for a fine summation. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The irreplaceable David Lynch has gone. RIP 💔
January 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The irreplaceable David Lynch has gone. RIP 💔
Shallow thought: if I finish the 33 books I’m half way through it could seem like I will have read a hell of a lot this year. Except that, with some of them, not picked up for more than a year, I might have to start again.
January 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Shallow thought: if I finish the 33 books I’m half way through it could seem like I will have read a hell of a lot this year. Except that, with some of them, not picked up for more than a year, I might have to start again.