Dominic Busby
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A thing what I wroted. Usual caveat: everything in these BFI listpieces has to be currently in print in English-friendly form, preferably on a UK label, but I reckon I'd have gone for most of these even if I'd had a completely clear run at the entire corpus of Hungarian cinema.
10 great Hungarian films
From a seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece to one of the most beautiful colour films ever made: as a trio of István Szabó films arrive on Blu-ray, we present a 10-film primer on the glories of Hungarian...
www.bfi.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A thing what I wroted. Usual caveat: everything in these BFI listpieces has to be currently in print in English-friendly form, preferably on a UK label, but I reckon I'd have gone for most of these even if I'd had a completely clear run at the entire corpus of Hungarian cinema.
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The first must-read best-of film list of the year is here, and it’s John Waters’. Spots one and two won me over completely (even if he sees fit to put the terrible Empire in there at number ten). ❤️🔥
The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters
All the brutalist sci-fi, cockeyed cunnilingus, and sequel horror you need to have seen this year.
www.vulture.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The first must-read best-of film list of the year is here, and it’s John Waters’. Spots one and two won me over completely (even if he sees fit to put the terrible Empire in there at number ten). ❤️🔥
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💥NEW EPISODE!💥 Kicking off our new Tastemakers bonus series, Tim sits down with John Ramchandani, Head of Video Production and Online Programming at the BFI, to discuss the BFI's role in curating titles for home entertainment release.
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
💥NEW EPISODE!💥 Kicking off our new Tastemakers bonus series, Tim sits down with John Ramchandani, Head of Video Production and Online Programming at the BFI, to discuss the BFI's role in curating titles for home entertainment release.
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Scorching actress
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Scorching actress
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
Too much for censored Hollywood to handle, really
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Time to give thanks that I’m not a teenager anymore.
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
The Plague – Review
Charlie Polinger’s The Plague follows a boys’ water-polo camp where a rumour about illness reshapes the group into insiders and outsiders. A cool, unsettling study of othering, built from sharp obs…
whitlockandpope.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Time to give thanks that I’m not a teenager anymore.
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
THE PLAGUE is the most coolly vicious American horror film in years; it gets under your skin like a mystery infection.
If you like Haneke, Hadzihalilovic, Ducournau, Larry Clark or Charles Burns, be sure to see Charlie Polinger’s superb debut!★★★★
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‘An eerie and unwholesome spell is cast in this film’ @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social Five-Star review of a film that ravishes with every frame. THE ICE TOWER is out today at BFI and beyond. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale
Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unwholesome story of yearning
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
‘An eerie and unwholesome spell is cast in this film’ @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social Five-Star review of a film that ravishes with every frame. THE ICE TOWER is out today at BFI and beyond. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
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Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson.
Give it a read:
Give it a read:
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems. boxd.it/2OA
Dark Mirrors: handcuffing ten film noir classics to ten neo-noir masterworks • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
As Noirvember carries on strong, Travis Woods presents a film noir double feature syllabus, pairing ten of the genre’s classics with searing neo-noir gems.
boxd.it
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson.
Give it a read:
Give it a read:
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"One of the greatest Blu-ray labels ever..."
Elliot Coen at Boutique Blu-rays dedicates a whole episode to Second Run in celebration of our 20th anniversary - we're suitably chuffed and delighted!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-k...
Elliot Coen at Boutique Blu-rays dedicates a whole episode to Second Run in celebration of our 20th anniversary - we're suitably chuffed and delighted!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-k...
Underrated Boutique Blu-ray Label Every Collector Should Know
YouTube video by Boutique Blu-rays with Elliot Coen
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"One of the greatest Blu-ray labels ever..."
Elliot Coen at Boutique Blu-rays dedicates a whole episode to Second Run in celebration of our 20th anniversary - we're suitably chuffed and delighted!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-k...
Elliot Coen at Boutique Blu-rays dedicates a whole episode to Second Run in celebration of our 20th anniversary - we're suitably chuffed and delighted!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-k...
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Frank & Eleanor Perry's Last Summer (1969). Every performance is great but Catherine Burns manages something beyond description as Rhoda.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Frank & Eleanor Perry's Last Summer (1969). Every performance is great but Catherine Burns manages something beyond description as Rhoda.
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Just arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue!
If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more!
Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more!
Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
October 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue!
If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more!
Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more!
Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
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Had the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorite filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt, about one of the best movies of the year, The Mastermind. Read it on @letterboxd.social Journal here: boxd.it/2Mu
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Had the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorite filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt, about one of the best movies of the year, The Mastermind. Read it on @letterboxd.social Journal here: boxd.it/2Mu
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Another stunning O’Connor performance, another Reichardt dream.
The Mastermind review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Mastermind review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Mastermind review – another Reichardt dream
An art theft spells disaster for Josh O'Connor in Kelly Reichardt's excellent Vietnam-era heist dramedy.
lwlies.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Another stunning O’Connor performance, another Reichardt dream.
The Mastermind review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Mastermind review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
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There’s a lot to say, and unpack, regarding the unsanctioned demolition of the east wing of the White House this week. A big part of that, for me at least, is the legacy of presidents watching films in its movie theater and documenting it, including Carter watching AUTUMN SONATA with 50 staff.
Every Single Movie That Jimmy Carter Watched at the White House
What did Jimmy watch?
gizmodo.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
There’s a lot to say, and unpack, regarding the unsanctioned demolition of the east wing of the White House this week. A big part of that, for me at least, is the legacy of presidents watching films in its movie theater and documenting it, including Carter watching AUTUMN SONATA with 50 staff.
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Letterboxd was released 14 years ago today 🧡💚💙
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Letterboxd was released 14 years ago today 🧡💚💙
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Just saw ROOFMAN: there was a time when you could go to the multiplex any weekend and see something straightforwardly grownup with this much comfy storytelling nous and easy-breezy star power, but now it feels like something rare, which gets it sized up as a prestige item, which isn’t quite right.
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just saw ROOFMAN: there was a time when you could go to the multiplex any weekend and see something straightforwardly grownup with this much comfy storytelling nous and easy-breezy star power, but now it feels like something rare, which gets it sized up as a prestige item, which isn’t quite right.
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Hot off the presses . . . in the latest episode of That '70s Movie Podcast, we take on The Parallax View, the middle entry in the paranoid trilogy via Alan J. Pakula and Mr. Gordon Willis, starring Warren Beatty
open.spotify.com/episode/1IO6...
open.spotify.com/episode/1IO6...
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hot off the presses . . . in the latest episode of That '70s Movie Podcast, we take on The Parallax View, the middle entry in the paranoid trilogy via Alan J. Pakula and Mr. Gordon Willis, starring Warren Beatty
open.spotify.com/episode/1IO6...
open.spotify.com/episode/1IO6...
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"Basically like a French New Wave film meets a Spaghetti Western"
Thanks again to @chrisryan77.bsky.social for the shout-out on the recent The Big Picture episode on Physical Media.
Although SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG is OOP on our direct site, copies can still be found via other retailers
Thanks again to @chrisryan77.bsky.social for the shout-out on the recent The Big Picture episode on Physical Media.
Although SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG is OOP on our direct site, copies can still be found via other retailers
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Basically like a French New Wave film meets a Spaghetti Western"
Thanks again to @chrisryan77.bsky.social for the shout-out on the recent The Big Picture episode on Physical Media.
Although SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG is OOP on our direct site, copies can still be found via other retailers
Thanks again to @chrisryan77.bsky.social for the shout-out on the recent The Big Picture episode on Physical Media.
Although SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG is OOP on our direct site, copies can still be found via other retailers
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Coming next week to the Little White Lies podcast...an interview with our day one 🥰
September 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Coming next week to the Little White Lies podcast...an interview with our day one 🥰
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Ahead of our new Blu-ray release of WENDY AND LUCY on 6th October, here's director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams talking about the film following it's 2008 premiere at the New York Film Festival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOM...
WENDY AND LUCY Q&A: Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams
YouTube video by Film at Lincoln Center
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Ahead of our new Blu-ray release of WENDY AND LUCY on 6th October, here's director Kelly Reichardt and actor Michelle Williams talking about the film following it's 2008 premiere at the New York Film Festival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOM...
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Watching Alien Covenant. What a hall of mirrors! It posits that humanity played Frankenstein in creating AI, and AI in turn was so disgusted by us that it created new predators to wipe us out. Bonus: you get to see an android tell another, identical android "no one will ever love you like I do."
September 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Watching Alien Covenant. What a hall of mirrors! It posits that humanity played Frankenstein in creating AI, and AI in turn was so disgusted by us that it created new predators to wipe us out. Bonus: you get to see an android tell another, identical android "no one will ever love you like I do."
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*Thrilled* to be part of the NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER UHD 4K release out via Transmission (a @filmsradiance.bsky.social imprint label). This edition includes my essay on the vigilante film subgenre of the 1970s/80s.
GET IT!
www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/nig...
GET IT!
www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/nig...
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
*Thrilled* to be part of the NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER UHD 4K release out via Transmission (a @filmsradiance.bsky.social imprint label). This edition includes my essay on the vigilante film subgenre of the 1970s/80s.
GET IT!
www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/nig...
GET IT!
www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/nig...
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Watch the trailer for Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, starring Josh O'Connor and Alana Haim 🧠
In theaters October 17.
In theaters October 17.
August 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Watch the trailer for Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, starring Josh O'Connor and Alana Haim 🧠
In theaters October 17.
In theaters October 17.