Together at last.

Of love in the first degree.

On Joseph Losey's underheralded 1951 remake of M, now streaming: tinyurl.com/yck2b9tt

Just keep casting people for Knives Out but never make it, Too Many Cooks style

Gorbachev: he's not dead, he's resting.

A Saga MAD MAX.

Mo Ana, Mo Problems.

Request to followers who are Net-savvier than me (i.e. most of you): I would be very interested in seeing a meme laying out how the characters in PANCHAYAT (Prime Video) would have voted in this round of Indian elections.

Caught up with the BFI's restoration of BILLY CONNOLLY: BIG BANANA FEET (now showing, streaming and out on DVD): tinyurl.com/46m3dffr

It helps of course when the subject is so unique and with such uncompromising vision, but Will has captured something quite remarkable here in a way that only he could.

Oozing with heart, laughter and pathos, this is simply one of the greatest music books I have ever read

#bestfilminlondontoday May 29 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London movies. Max Ophüls: 'I'll get my revenge in 20 years in the cine-clubs!' Masterpiece LOLA MONTÈS Institut français UK Cine Lumiere capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/05/capita…

Niche, I know, but - among its other strengths - this runs away with the prize for most unexpected celeb talking head in a Steve Lamacq-narrated music doc made for BBC Choice Wales in 2000: youtube.com/watch?v=fEI1zN…

ROCKY AUR RANI (Prime Video)/STILL UP S1 (Apple TV+)/PONNIYIN SELVAN (Prime Video)/GURUVAYOOR AMBALANADAYIL (in cinemas).

Watching Baradwaj Rangan's typically excellent interview with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, I realised SLB talks about his art and influences in much the way Terence Davies used to - the hypersensitivity to textures, etc. (It's almost the same speaking voice.) youtube.com/watch?v=XeL6vk…

'You can go mental with the away kit.' Dutch kit designer Floor Wesseling.

On George Miller's FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA, now showing: tinyurl.com/2wax3bsj

One of the great short films. Maybe even the greatest?

Fascinated by the mental loop-de-loops required to go from 'being invited to talk about JAWS' to 'banging on about *that*'. (But some minds have clearly been rewired to make *everything* an excuse to bang on about that.)