Tom F
@pileofwheat.bsky.social
Feet in Oxfordshire, heart in the cinema, brain in the recycling
JAPANESE GIRLS AT THE HARBOUR (1933). After having seen MR THANK YOU and CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE, interesting to get not another odyssey from Shimizu but a grounded melodrama, a journey in time not space, where presences echo in spaces unchanged and nothing can ever be the same again.
August 26, 2023 at 8:43 PM
JAPANESE GIRLS AT THE HARBOUR (1933). After having seen MR THANK YOU and CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE, interesting to get not another odyssey from Shimizu but a grounded melodrama, a journey in time not space, where presences echo in spaces unchanged and nothing can ever be the same again.
Possible message from god on the house behind ours. Trying to make it out. Might be “loser”
August 22, 2023 at 6:48 PM
Possible message from god on the house behind ours. Trying to make it out. Might be “loser”
NIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS (1931). Jean Renoir’s Simenon adaptation has some of the misty indeterminacy and the isolated provincial fatalism of Dreyer’s VAMPYR, which it preceded by a year
July 15, 2023 at 9:34 PM
NIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS (1931). Jean Renoir’s Simenon adaptation has some of the misty indeterminacy and the isolated provincial fatalism of Dreyer’s VAMPYR, which it preceded by a year
ME AND MY GAL. first walsh. it’s got more than enough drunken slapstick but also the kind of totalising joyousness of Ford’s 30s comedies (it shared writers with DOCTOR BULL and PILGRIMAGE) but also left hooks including a bank heist that fizzes like the ones in michael mann’s THIEF.
July 13, 2023 at 9:16 AM
ME AND MY GAL. first walsh. it’s got more than enough drunken slapstick but also the kind of totalising joyousness of Ford’s 30s comedies (it shared writers with DOCTOR BULL and PILGRIMAGE) but also left hooks including a bank heist that fizzes like the ones in michael mann’s THIEF.
Crossed the soggy wolds this afternoon to see our favourite local pigs
July 9, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Crossed the soggy wolds this afternoon to see our favourite local pigs
Waiting for my stewed rhubarb to finish microwaving
July 8, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Waiting for my stewed rhubarb to finish microwaving