Jonathan Bygraves

My essay for the box set of Tod Browning (THE MYSTIC, THE UNKNOWN, and the immortal FREAKS) is up at the @criterion website. I was delighted to go long on the great Browning and his carnie soul. criterion.com/current/posts/…

this is awful, and they should all do what i do: keep two massive ikea boxes full of surplus SCART cables and move them from flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat over 20 years

@rickburin Smog's "Whenever I get dressed up / I feel like an ex-con trying to make good" is a perennial fave

When @SightSoundmag asked me last week to pen an obituary for Terence Davies, I was decimated. I also knew nothing I wrote in the space allotted could do justice to the films or to the human being. It was an honor to have lived with his cinema. bfi.org.uk/news/terence-d…

The landmark British Chinese film Ping Pong is currently available to stream for free via Channel 4! Can't express how groundbreaking this movie is, a madcap 80s Chinatown mystery that's taken decades for the film industry to catch up with Watch here: channel4.com/programmes/pin…

In honor of Werner Herzog's birthday, let us recall that time he saved Joaquin Phoenix from going up in flames:

My video essay on Asian-American director Wayne Wang is screening this week alongside LIFE IS CHEAP BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE as part of @CineRedis's touring programme - catch it here: Weds 23/07 @edfilmfest @Omni_Edinburgh Thurs 24/07 @IFI_Dub twitter.com/CineRedis/stat…

@DanielNothing Have you seen the De Palma-filmed (very loose) adaptation? sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/mcvdncsq

Hey 'boffins': is there a good filmed version of The Bacchae (play, not opera) in English I can access online/ buy on DVD? It's not for a thing, I'd just like to see one.

We screened SORCERER here in Bristol many moons ago, and I can still vividly recall the combination of whimpering and nervous laughter of the surly men sat in the row behind me throughout *that* bridge scene. RIP 👑

@E_Film_Blog I always think Val Lewton's films are particularly good on this, especially both Cat Peoples

I'm making a list of films that are about or most precisely evoke loneliness. Pretty broad field for now, open to your interpretation. I'm looking for as many additions as possible! letterboxd.com/michael_ewins/…

If you’re interested in seeing Life is Cheap… let your local cinema/festival know that the film can be booked as part of #CineRedis23 tour w/a video essay intro c/o @iambags following the UK premiere @wshed For more info on booking & support available: watershed.co.uk/cinema-redisco…

Start your week with the trailer of Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive, a stylistically daring & vibrant pulp trip through 1990s #HongKong See it newly restored @edfilmfest @IFI_Dub, @StoryhouseLive & more venues tbc #CineRedis23

Announcing the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize✍️ 👥 For UK-based entrants aged 18-30 inclusive 🔖 5000 words max, all writing backgrounds welcome 🤝 £2,000 prize to be awarded ✅ Open now, entries due by 5pm GMT, Nov 6, 2023 Learn more and apply here: stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the-s…

Anyone still on twitter is not allowed ask why the family in the horror movie doesn’t just move house

@Fullerov Thank you and great to see you again after so long!

What a weird and wonderful watch this was at Watershed last night. Great to have an introduction from @iambags as had been ages since I heard one.

Tonight! Myself and @iambags will be introducing one of the weirdest and coolest Japanese crime films of the 60s, Branded to Kill, at @CineRedis in the former IMAX at Bristol Aquarium. watershed.co.uk/whatson/12008/…

Just one week to go until Seijun Suzuki’s wild BRANDED TO KILL (1967) screens in a new 4K restoration on Bristol’s biggest screen @BristolAquarium Fri 28 July 8.30pm introed by @christinalefou & @iambags Book: watershed.co.uk/whatson/12008/…

@DanielNothing @yermam It's like that Orson Welles line about the Cole Porter biopic, ''the only suspense is will he or won't he accumulate $10 million?''

@yermam I can understand something like the Theranos thing being made into a drama...that was dramatic! But too many of these thing are just silly foregone conclusions. "oh man, I hope this invention of mine isn't just a passing phase. I hope people remember my name...Simon Internet"

Ah fuck.