In fifty years time historians will be asking how the BBC and “mainstream” public discussion got completely sucked into an endless cycle of right wing talking points - if we’re not all living under fascism in a burning world ravaged by climate change…

91. One Battle After Another (2025), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

90. F for Fake (1973), dir. Orson Welles

89. The Trial (1962), dir. Orson Welles

35. I’ve been writing a lot since I moved to Munich but I’ve struggled to read. My mind has once again been BLOWN by teaching Ellis Bell’s perfect novel

88. What Does That Nature Say To You (2025), dir. Hong Sang-soo

87. Mr. Arkadin (1955), dir. Orson Welles

Thanks!

86. Macbeth (1948), dir. Orson Welles

Thanks! It’s only short term but at least it gets me out of the UK got a bit…

Thanks bbz

Thanks!

I’ve been so busy with insecure teaching jobs it has felt like I’ll never finish this book!!!

Only temporary again but it’s an exciting temporary one

Thank you! I’m finishing up my second monograph on political violence and political community in the long nineteenth century and doing a little bit of teaching - it’s only a semester but it’s tiding me over given the bin-fire of UK universities just now

85. All the President’s Men (1976), dir. Alan J. Pakula

84. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), dir. Riccardo Freda

34. Scott was just too huge an omission in my reading which needed fixing. This is also brilliant, on its own terms as an intellectual and artistic achievement, and as a road not taken by the popular novel whose anti-humanism and excess has much to say to the contemporary experimental novel.

83. Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), dir. Vernon Sewell