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@lizslayed @BFI I know this because I picked up this book a few years ago from a charity shop. And I’ve just learned that it now sells for £150-£200! Btw Seven Pillars of Wisdom is really worth reading if you have the time (it’s long, lots of descriptions of sand…)

@lizslayed @BFI Yeah I love that. Sadly the Aqaba sequence wasn’t shot on location as the city looked too developed, it was filmed in Almeria (same region as many spaghetti westerns!). And Seville stands in for Cairo and Damascus. But almost all the desert sequences were shot where they’re set.

It was an incredible experience watching Lawrence of Arabia at @BFI. It’s such a masterpiece, every shot is perfection and Peter O’Toole is mesmerising, truly one of the greatest performances of all time. A film everyone should experience in the cinema at least once.

@Baratnas @SuzieWo20886208 Kings of the Road?

@SuzieWo20886208 I saw my first filmed (in black and white) scene of a grown man taking a shit in a field on Channel 4.

Back in around 1996/7 (yes it's 30years ago!) Channel 4 was still quite an alternative arty channel. Between 11pm and 5am it used to show arty foreign and British films, which I recorded on VCR whilst asleep. They had few ad breaks at that ungodly hour as well. Good drama!

@TheMovieMermaid @MissAmeliaNancy @paulkleinyoo What, the Peter Ustinov aged starfest or the Branagh monstrosity? Either way, @paulkleinyoo ??!?

@MissAmeliaNancy @paulkleinyoo Paul is also a proud Death on the Nile enjoyer

The thing with “bad” movies is a lot of them get re-assessed so someone like me who had been banging the drum for Scooby Doo or Coyote Ugly gets lost in the noise. But I do really love Wonder Woman 1984

@dunearrival The @ThePCCLondon is great. I’m all for an audience expressing their enjoyment but the superior performative cackling that inflicts cinemas screening older films is a disease.

shoutout to prince charles cinema for having a disclaimer about not cackling like idiots at every single line in an old movie. anti-shoutout to everyone in my screening who didn’t listen

Laura Dern this evening at the @bfi introducing David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE on what would have been his 80th birthday. She came across so very positive and sweet, with fond memories of working with Lynch. The first time I’ve seen it on the big screen in 19 years.

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@ThatMasonBoiii I expect so.

@DaveFilmBlog What you said about that sounded really unique and one of a kind! I bet everyone who was there is thinking about that gig today

I’m so glad I was able to see (for the first and last time) Bob Weir at the Royal Albert Hall last June, an extremely rare UK visit, one of his very final performances. I’ve been listening to the Dead since I was a teenager, probably my favourite band.

@Lulamaybelle @LAFilmCritics @martysupreme @A24 That’s great - the text and presenting the award!

Tonight, I’m thrilled to be presenting our @LAFilmCritics’ award for Best Film Editing to MARTY SUPREME’s Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie. Here’s my essay I wrote in this year’s program. I could gush about this movie all night.

@chrisconnor96 I wasn’t as enthusiastic about No Other Choice as others were, but I don’t understand why it’s being virtually ignored. The Secret Agent was brilliant. Weird.

The real shame this awards season is the second successive complete shutout for Park Chan-wook. This one is more accessible than Decision to Leave and still likely to get precious little. Not to mention The Secret Agent's drop off too.

Do Academy members have to watch them all before they’re allowed to vote for the Oscars?

@thedailyjaws @RichardDreyfuss Hooper drives the boat, Chief!

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@chrisconnor96 @ThatMasonBoiii @Milo_AFC I think so. The first five have been published but only the first three yet translated to English. The premise sounds like that of Groundhog Day but it’s very much more than that.

@ThatMasonBoiii @DaveFilmBlog @Milo_AFC Planned to be 7 parts I think.

Things are getting better with this series I’ve been devouring vol 3.

@chrisconnor96 @Milo_AFC I’ve just finished part 3. They’ve been great so far.

@Milo_AFC Really liked the first one

A power cut on one of the coldest nights of the year. Great.

@girlpatbateman I had a ticket but missed it, now glad. I’ve seen others post about yesterday. I don’t recall this behaviour at Lynch screenings in the 90s and 00s. Shitty audiences who see everything with performative cackling smug ‘irony’ are terrible. Does @BFI need to do conduct warnings?

Really awful experience :(

Everything is made from glass in this lovely 12 minute short animation from Karel Zeman, who later made the astonishing The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. Available for a week from @lecinemaclub. lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/in…