🍺Donald Clarke 🎥
@donaldclarke
Film correspondent and general blowhard for The Irish Times. Bias so-called 'critic'. The Essence of All is the Godhead of the True.
Like a number of other people on the social, I’ve just finished Penguin’s new edition of John Cowper Powys’s A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE. Quite something to connect so forcefully with a sensibility utterly at odds with the everyday contemporary. Deranged. Quite brilliant.
Probably closer to horror than the Touch of Frost mysteries (bottom right) — as played cosily by David Jason in the early nineties.
Ah no. Only just heard that Jimmy Cricket died. Lovely sweet presence. “C’mere I want you.”
I’ve forgotten that adjective rule. But surely this should be “Mammoth Greek Olives”?
The fact that TROY is number one on HBO Max and Nolan is two, three and five should pretty much put to bed any notion THE ODYSSEY isn’t going to make a billion.
Earth hath nothing to show more fair… Yes, I know it’s the wrong bridge.
I reminded myself it’s on Disney+ (funny old world) and am watching it now.
BEST OF 2026 SO FAR (Irish release dates) 10. Nouvelle Vague 9. If I had Legs... 8. Mother Mary 7. Sound of Falling 6. Rose of Nevada 5. Sirāt 4. The Secret Agent 3. Obsession 2. Resurrection 1. The Testament of Ann Lee (I realise this looks like best of Venice and Cannes 2025. But so it goes)
ALSO endorsed! As written by X Trapnel from Dance to the Music of Time.
Double-endorsed. Have you heard Witt Stillman is making a film of it with Laura Carmichael?
If you read around BookTok, you find they’re not just doing this with lengthy 19th century classics. They’re doing it with contemporary “romantasy” stuff. For example…
Ah BlueSky. The caring alternative to Twitter. (Nobody’s asking you to express sympathy. You could just say nothing.)
John Craig interviews Lord Binface. You have to love the classic British by-election.