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Ian Nathan
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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
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
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February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Your Christmas movie is sorted.
November 26, 2024 at 11:35 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.
November 21, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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...
November 21, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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
November 18, 2024 at 7:31 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
November 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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
Currently deep in production.
November 16, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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.
November 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Looking very handsome at the BFI bookshop.
November 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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
October 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM