Soma Ghosh
@somaghosh.bsky.social
“A 1000 women in one” - The Hay Festival. “A snake and a prostitute”- some guy. ‘A Guardian Best’ Podcaster, Writer, Rural Raver, Filthy Tree Hugger. Film, books, culture, 'Nature' if you must. Words: Little White Lies, The Independent, The Irish Times etc
Shout out to the arts critics whose kids had to write an arts review for today’s English exam and have made it into their pyjamas before 6pm, ready to project on the sitting room wall the best Star Wars film ever (clue: so good it granted New Hope with Andor).
June 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Shout out to the arts critics whose kids had to write an arts review for today’s English exam and have made it into their pyjamas before 6pm, ready to project on the sitting room wall the best Star Wars film ever (clue: so good it granted New Hope with Andor).
Literal literary bliss doesn’t get more fruity, camp or psychologically subtle. I’m so here for you, Marcel
May 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Literal literary bliss doesn’t get more fruity, camp or psychologically subtle. I’m so here for you, Marcel
..when a multicultural work in which you have genre-blended immersive travel, drama and expert discussion with thinkers like @luketurner.bsky.social @sabinastent.bsky.social @jonathanpage-bw.bsky.social is a Guardian Best Podcast: “Yes! we still want the thoughtful, provocative & beautiful!
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
..when a multicultural work in which you have genre-blended immersive travel, drama and expert discussion with thinkers like @luketurner.bsky.social @sabinastent.bsky.social @jonathanpage-bw.bsky.social is a Guardian Best Podcast: “Yes! we still want the thoughtful, provocative & beautiful!
So, in between winning a Welsh creative commission and developing brain fever JUST to be more 19th C, @kwoovo.bsky.social & I made possibly the world’s first multicultural, LGBTQ+ histories of trees podcast ever, on Apple, Spotify, Deezer etc tmw! Drama, discussions, travel & music by Arun Ghosh
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So, in between winning a Welsh creative commission and developing brain fever JUST to be more 19th C, @kwoovo.bsky.social & I made possibly the world’s first multicultural, LGBTQ+ histories of trees podcast ever, on Apple, Spotify, Deezer etc tmw! Drama, discussions, travel & music by Arun Ghosh
The horror & pathos of Frankenstein's monster, in this 1910 film by J. Searle Dawley made in 3 days, and restored on wonderful @archive.org are remarkable. Esp its link to Frankenstein's own darker psyche in this scene where the monster appears to emerge from a womb above Frankenstein on his couch.
April 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The horror & pathos of Frankenstein's monster, in this 1910 film by J. Searle Dawley made in 3 days, and restored on wonderful @archive.org are remarkable. Esp its link to Frankenstein's own darker psyche in this scene where the monster appears to emerge from a womb above Frankenstein on his couch.
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, DOTD. “She could be herself…Free for the strangest adventures.”
March 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, DOTD. “She could be herself…Free for the strangest adventures.”
Sunset over flooded fields, Welsh Marches
February 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sunset over flooded fields, Welsh Marches
And they escaped Big Corp and set up a YMCA in Alaska and lived happily ever after is the detour we all want tonight. #Severance
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
And they escaped Big Corp and set up a YMCA in Alaska and lived happily ever after is the detour we all want tonight. #Severance
She’s my Valentine: glitteringly multifaceted, ferociously intelligent, banging grooves, urgent sensuality & one hell of a production
February 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
She’s my Valentine: glitteringly multifaceted, ferociously intelligent, banging grooves, urgent sensuality & one hell of a production
Not with the hitmen as protagonist, but the hitmen as the tension-ratcheting, catalytic antagonist, Elaine May's Mikey & Nicky, 1976, a box office bomb that meant May didn't direct for 10 years. Totally sleazy-sweaty-glorious.
Peter Falk
John Cassavetes
Ned Beatty as the hitman.
Peter Falk
John Cassavetes
Ned Beatty as the hitman.
February 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not with the hitmen as protagonist, but the hitmen as the tension-ratcheting, catalytic antagonist, Elaine May's Mikey & Nicky, 1976, a box office bomb that meant May didn't direct for 10 years. Totally sleazy-sweaty-glorious.
Peter Falk
John Cassavetes
Ned Beatty as the hitman.
Peter Falk
John Cassavetes
Ned Beatty as the hitman.
Going back to check on my dying Twitter from time to time like a dehydrated overly prostituted failed Influencer swimming to the wreck of the cruise ship in Triangle of Sadness. What a film and what a loss, Charlbi Dean. She was fantastic.
February 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Going back to check on my dying Twitter from time to time like a dehydrated overly prostituted failed Influencer swimming to the wreck of the cruise ship in Triangle of Sadness. What a film and what a loss, Charlbi Dean. She was fantastic.
A reminder from your friendly sky-watching film critic out in the Welsh borders under Milky Way skies that the Dance of the Planets begins tmw. A rare and delightful alignment; the next one is approx 2040. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
January 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A reminder from your friendly sky-watching film critic out in the Welsh borders under Milky Way skies that the Dance of the Planets begins tmw. A rare and delightful alignment; the next one is approx 2040. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Like with Bowie, interesting how relatively little is being said about David Lynch’s commitment to meditation as the key to freely roaming dream worlds from a place of bliss
January 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Like with Bowie, interesting how relatively little is being said about David Lynch’s commitment to meditation as the key to freely roaming dream worlds from a place of bliss
Before Sunrise, Welsh Marches
January 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Before Sunrise, Welsh Marches
New film on photographer Ernest Cole narrated by the divine LaKeith Stanfield. This is one of my favourites for its elegant cruelty. The white topis of the South African cops, the chic white-topped car, a sunlit moment of humiliation as Blacks are asked for passes before being free to move around
January 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New film on photographer Ernest Cole narrated by the divine LaKeith Stanfield. This is one of my favourites for its elegant cruelty. The white topis of the South African cops, the chic white-topped car, a sunlit moment of humiliation as Blacks are asked for passes before being free to move around
Malheureusement, j’adore thin ice (on Hay Bluff, Welsh borders)
January 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Malheureusement, j’adore thin ice (on Hay Bluff, Welsh borders)
New Year’s Resolution to do monthly readings with friends of shooting scripts cos that’s the only way to get films just how you like’em. (Hepburn’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s script)
January 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New Year’s Resolution to do monthly readings with friends of shooting scripts cos that’s the only way to get films just how you like’em. (Hepburn’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s script)
New Year’s party girls atop Hay Bluff, Welsh borders
December 31, 2024 at 3:25 PM
New Year’s party girls atop Hay Bluff, Welsh borders
Whatever else happened in 2024, on its last day I spotted my first holly flower next to a miraculous tiny nest made of moss and that’s made it worthwhile
December 31, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Whatever else happened in 2024, on its last day I spotted my first holly flower next to a miraculous tiny nest made of moss and that’s made it worthwhile
to be fair she did send out the memo…If I’m drinking then I’m drinking …
December 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM
to be fair she did send out the memo…If I’m drinking then I’m drinking …
Solstice! did a non-Pliny ritual of oak and mistletoe, trashing the bull-sacrifice but upping the fertility worship by culling mistletoe in the cider orchard. May this coming new Light bless our creative projects and remind us to be thankful for one more swing around the solar maypole
December 21, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Solstice! did a non-Pliny ritual of oak and mistletoe, trashing the bull-sacrifice but upping the fertility worship by culling mistletoe in the cider orchard. May this coming new Light bless our creative projects and remind us to be thankful for one more swing around the solar maypole
Teetering on the brink of canceldom but just too 90s to resist Christmas biscuits from the Welsh Marches’ best Sri Lankan grocers
December 16, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Teetering on the brink of canceldom but just too 90s to resist Christmas biscuits from the Welsh Marches’ best Sri Lankan grocers
I feel I took a wrong turn out of the helicopter billionaires field at Glastonbury and need to get back to being a profesh +1 for the Christmas season with constant make-up artists & ice baths laid on. we need services, people!
December 5, 2024 at 10:25 AM
I feel I took a wrong turn out of the helicopter billionaires field at Glastonbury and need to get back to being a profesh +1 for the Christmas season with constant make-up artists & ice baths laid on. we need services, people!
Writers-artists-poets heading for a freelancer’s single meal of the day brunch try to do it in Cardiff. This, next to the Uni library, £12
December 4, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Writers-artists-poets heading for a freelancer’s single meal of the day brunch try to do it in Cardiff. This, next to the Uni library, £12
my advice would be keep the husband out of it & keep pouring the milk (Manji, the 1983 version - there are 4 in total)
December 3, 2024 at 12:47 PM
my advice would be keep the husband out of it & keep pouring the milk (Manji, the 1983 version - there are 4 in total)