Ian Nathan
@iannathan.bsky.social
Author, presenter, filmmaker. Out now: documentary Aliens Expanded, The Legend of Mad Max, and Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker. In production on The Thing Expanded. Writing about Martin Scorsese. Watch me on Classic Movies on Sky Arts
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Ian Nathan
@iannathan.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Out now
Almost without my knowing, this became the most personal thing I have ever written. I guess, these films just do that to you.
#newbookrelease
Almost without my knowing, this became the most personal thing I have ever written. I guess, these films just do that to you.
#newbookrelease
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On Let's Talk with Giles Brown, after 10.00CET - @iannathan.bsky.social on 'Martin Scorsese: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)', and @johnnicholraf.bsky.social with 'The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance'
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
On Let's Talk with Giles Brown, after 10.00CET - @iannathan.bsky.social on 'Martin Scorsese: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)', and @johnnicholraf.bsky.social with 'The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance'
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Spent the day working through the assembly for The Thing Expanded with @iannathan.bsky.social - Terror is taking shape.
@davidweiner.bsky.social @joshuahweiss.bsky.social @james-evans.bsky.social
@davidweiner.bsky.social @joshuahweiss.bsky.social @james-evans.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Spent the day working through the assembly for The Thing Expanded with @iannathan.bsky.social - Terror is taking shape.
@davidweiner.bsky.social @joshuahweiss.bsky.social @james-evans.bsky.social
@davidweiner.bsky.social @joshuahweiss.bsky.social @james-evans.bsky.social
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Chuffed to bits to see Aliens Expanded receive a Best Documentary nomination at the Rondo Hatton awards.
@iannathan.bsky.social
Go team!
#rondohattonawards
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Go team!
#rondohattonawards
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March 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Chuffed to bits to see Aliens Expanded receive a Best Documentary nomination at the Rondo Hatton awards.
@iannathan.bsky.social
Go team!
#rondohattonawards
rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...
@iannathan.bsky.social
Go team!
#rondohattonawards
rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...
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March 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There will be countless tributes, and rightly so. But Hackman was about the work. So today, simply put on The French Connection, or The Conversation, or Unforgiven, or Superman, or The Royal Tenenbaums et al. Remind yourself what screen presence truly means.
February 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
There will be countless tributes, and rightly so. But Hackman was about the work. So today, simply put on The French Connection, or The Conversation, or Unforgiven, or Superman, or The Royal Tenenbaums et al. Remind yourself what screen presence truly means.
Limited time deal on Amazon - down to £16.61.
Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll.
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Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll.
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February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Limited time deal on Amazon - down to £16.61.
Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll.
amzn.eu/d/dwlaAgc
Snag yourself the full history of visual rock'n'roll.
amzn.eu/d/dwlaAgc
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Superb work by @iannathan.bsky.social one of the more accessible reads about the much missed David Lynch and his films and lovingly put together.
January 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Superb work by @iannathan.bsky.social one of the more accessible reads about the much missed David Lynch and his films and lovingly put together.
Get back to work.
I am excited to get stuck in to editing The Thing Expanded this year with the team at CreatorVC. It's good to be back.
@iannathan.bsky.social and I are currently looking through the interviews and it's going to be a good one!
"Trust is a tough thing to come by these days"
@iannathan.bsky.social and I are currently looking through the interviews and it's going to be a good one!
"Trust is a tough thing to come by these days"
January 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Get back to work.
Is there a Carry-On discourse?
December 31, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Is there a Carry-On discourse?
Bleasdale on Bleasdale.
Understudy - moi.
Understudy - moi.
Many people asked how I’d do a Writers on Film on The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick. Here’s the answer @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social
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John Bleasdale on The Magic Hours
Puntata podcast · Writers on Film · 02/12/2024 · 1 h 9 min
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December 9, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Bleasdale on Bleasdale.
Understudy - moi.
Understudy - moi.
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You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
November 27, 2024 at 2:04 PM
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry?
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Fair contracts and decent pay for authors.
No AI training without the creator’s consent.
Artists and translators on the cover.
No NDAs for ghostwriters.
Public service announcement.
If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!).
#aliens #aliensexpanded
If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!).
#aliens #aliensexpanded
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Public service announcement.
If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!).
#aliens #aliensexpanded
If you missed out first time around - our flash sale gives you another chance to own the four-hour plus (before credits) magnitude of Aliens Expanded on blu-ray (and we got everyone!).
#aliens #aliensexpanded
Your Christmas movie is sorted.
November 26, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Your Christmas movie is sorted.
A great interview on why Spielberg is not quite the director we think he is. #Spielberg
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The Spielbergian manifesto: New book looks at the many films of Steven Spielberg
WPR’s “BETA” spoke with film critic Ian Nathan about the giant success of 1975's summer blockbuster, "Jaws," the groundbreaking cinematography of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and Steven Spiel...
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November 23, 2024 at 12:56 PM
A great interview on why Spielberg is not quite the director we think he is. #Spielberg
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What a pleasure, to wax lyrical about arguably Malick's most complete film and the lager context of the MCU (Malick's Cinematic Universe). BTW: John's new book is a marvel.
The Magic Hours. Episode 2. Ian Nathan joins me to talk about second film Days of Heaven @iannathan.bsky.social #moviesky #filmsky #malick open.spotify.com/episode/3iw0...
The Malick Hours: DAYS OF HEAVEN
Writers on Film · Episode
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November 22, 2024 at 10:15 AM
What a pleasure, to wax lyrical about arguably Malick's most complete film and the lager context of the MCU (Malick's Cinematic Universe). BTW: John's new book is a marvel.
I am delighted to be talking all things Max with Iain Smith (producer of Fury Road) at tonight's special @TheActionFest screening of Mad Max 2 at the BFI Southbank.
FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.
FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.
November 21, 2024 at 12:29 PM
I am delighted to be talking all things Max with Iain Smith (producer of Fury Road) at tonight's special @TheActionFest screening of Mad Max 2 at the BFI Southbank.
FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.
FYI: I will also be signing copies of my book, The Legend of Mad Max, at the BFI Bookshop from 6.30pm.
Alert: my Quentin Tarantino book is available in the #BlackFriday groove for only £11.20.
Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy.
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Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy.
www.amazon.co.uk/Quentin-Tara...
November 21, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Alert: my Quentin Tarantino book is available in the #BlackFriday groove for only £11.20.
Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy.
www.amazon.co.uk/Quentin-Tara...
Gourmet expensive stuff, but at a price Bonnie would buy.
www.amazon.co.uk/Quentin-Tara...
To me, the Indy films never fit the bill of blockbuster. They are too knowingly a pastiche, too gloriously enriched by tradition, and (in terms of the original trilogy), a love song to physical stunts. #Spielberg
November 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To me, the Indy films never fit the bill of blockbuster. They are too knowingly a pastiche, too gloriously enriched by tradition, and (in terms of the original trilogy), a love song to physical stunts. #Spielberg
I like many things about The Fabelmans, but it felt needless. Spielberg had poeticised his suburban childhood to immortal effect in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Don't wish away the potency of the fairy tale. #Spielberg
November 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
I like many things about The Fabelmans, but it felt needless. Spielberg had poeticised his suburban childhood to immortal effect in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Don't wish away the potency of the fairy tale. #Spielberg
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"So many entries in his storied canon are resident in my cerebral cortex like the replicant fail-safes of Blade Runner or Christopher Nolan’s implanted ideas in Inception."
A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment.
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A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment.
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Raised By Spielberg
He may not know it, but Steven Spielberg was my second dad
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October 21, 2024 at 7:31 PM
"So many entries in his storied canon are resident in my cerebral cortex like the replicant fail-safes of Blade Runner or Christopher Nolan’s implanted ideas in Inception."
A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment.
open.substack.com/pub/iannatha...
A Substack read on why my new Spielberg book is my most personal accomplishment.
open.substack.com/pub/iannatha...
The start of something big. Spielberg's second and third feature films set the manifesto for the greatest career in postwar cinema. Genre infused with a sense of luminous mystery. #spielberg
November 16, 2024 at 4:07 PM
The start of something big. Spielberg's second and third feature films set the manifesto for the greatest career in postwar cinema. Genre infused with a sense of luminous mystery. #spielberg
Currently deep in production.
November 16, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Currently deep in production.
It’s on mornings like these, after a couple of cups of coffee, that I wonder whether Marty McFly was modelled on Marty Scorsese. They are both fixated with the past.
Then I move on.
Then I move on.
November 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM
It’s on mornings like these, after a couple of cups of coffee, that I wonder whether Marty McFly was modelled on Marty Scorsese. They are both fixated with the past.
Then I move on.
Then I move on.
Book news.
A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025.
Without a doubt, our greatest living director.
From Thames & Hudson.
A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025.
Without a doubt, our greatest living director.
From Thames & Hudson.
November 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Book news.
A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025.
Without a doubt, our greatest living director.
From Thames & Hudson.
A fully-updated edition of my Ridley Scott: A Retrospective will be out on April 10, 2025.
Without a doubt, our greatest living director.
From Thames & Hudson.