Are you coming to @cineredis.bsky.social? At 14:05 on Saturday 25 July I will be introducing QUEEN KELLY at the Watershed. Afterwards, around 4pm, I will be selling/signing copies of my book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY and raising a glass to the whole endeavour. I hope to see you there!

This book has been out in the world for a while month now. Thank you to everyone who bought it, read it or shared it. I am so excited for more people to enjoy it and to see the jaw-dropping movie that inspired it. @milestonefilms.bsky.social @stickingplacebk.bsky.social

Really chuffed to write about the goddess Kay Kendall in this lavish @hammerfilms.bsky.social edition of MANTRAP. Fellow contributors include noir experts @jamesmjharrison.bsky.social and @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social on the audio commentary

Delighted to receive my contributor’s copy of this gem from @indicator.bsky.social My essay is in good company with a commentary by @cinemelo.bsky.social and an appreciation of Sam Wood by Neil Sinyard

Of course I did pop out to buy the paper today.

Achievement unlocked

Exciting to hold a sample of my new book, published on 27 March. “I drank down this intoxicating account of Swanson, Stroheim and Kennedy in avid gulps, my eyes bulging with revelation at every turn of the page. Long live Queen Kelly!” - Guy Maddin stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.” My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less. stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

If you love the Stanwyck version you will ADORE this one. Take two handkerchieves, and put your mum on speed-dial

More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Celebrating publication of this fabulous @edinburghup.bsky.social volume edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail. I wrote about legendary Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune, naturally.

30-Second Cinema was published in English in 2019. It has now been translated into French, German, Canadian French, Chinese and Vietnamese. Well travelled! Thanks to brilliant @christinalefou.bsky.social, @phlode.bsky.social, @nikkibaughan.bsky.social, @antbit.bsky.social & Kelli Weston.

Chaplin's revelatory A WOMAN OF PARIS, a film that changed the cinema for the better, is coming out from @criterion.bsky.social in March. Honoured to say I wrote the essay for this one. www.criterion.com/films/27582-...

The poster for this year’s Pordenone Silent Film Festival is here and it is glorious. The image is from Ernst Lubitsch’s THREE WOMEN (1924) starring Marie Prevost.

Gena Rowlands and Shelley Duvall share the cover of Monthly Film Bulletin, March 1981

A pinch-me moment, or several, last night in NFT1 at BFI Southbank. It was an honour to present on one of my all-time favourite films on that stage, but it was really a thrill to host the panel of Sally Potter, Judith Mackrell and Helen Persson.

Asta Nielsen and HAMLET in Istanbul at Beykoz Kundura with accompaniment by world-renowned jazz artist Okay Temiz and Turkish pianist Kubilay Kan www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMX...

And I will be giving in-person intro at the Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings for a special screening of the simply perfect I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! on 19 November www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/i-k...

If you're in Hastings, I will be introducing three films at the fantastic Electric Palace Cinema: video intros for A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH on 5 November and THE RED SHOES on 17 December www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/a-m...

To celebrate the re-released of THE RED SHOES, on 8 December at BFI Southbank I will host an event called The Red Shoes in the Spotlight. I'll give an illustrated talk and, excitingly, be joined by very special guests to discuss the wonders of this magnificent film whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

On 16 November at BFI Southbank, I will be joining @boltonsmotors.bsky.social, Sarah Street and @lillcrawf.bsky.social to discuss the wonderful women of The Archers films in Centre Stage: The Leading Women of Powell + Pressburger whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Also today at Festival Lumiere I revelled in a “picturesque” new restoration of Raymond Bernard’s 1946 ADIEU, CHERIE - a glittering romantic comedy featuring Danielle Darrieux, Louis Salou, Jacques Berthier’s cheekbones and a gasp of an ending.

I have arrived in Lyon for Festival Lumière on Jonathan Glazer day: a powerful screening of THE ZONE OF INTEREST, followed by a masterclass with the man himself

Delighted to be celebrating publication day for my second BFI Film Classic. It was a challenge and an honour to get this book on THE RED SHOES over the line in time for the film's 75th anniversary and the beautiful BFI Powell and Pressburger extravaganza that is taking place nationwide this autumn.

You need more Dorothy Arzner in your life, so pre-order this snazzy Blu-Ray of her pre-Code drama HONOR AMONG LOVERS. Commentary by Eloise Ross, Ginger Rogers expertise by @boltonsmotors.bsky.social and a little essay by me www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...

Author copies have arrived and I am thrilled. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-shoes...

I wrote about Brigitte Helm, iconic star of the Weimar screen silentlondon.co.uk/2023/09/12/b...

Happy to say that I will be joining Lisa Mullen @lillcrawf and Matthew Sweet for a discussion of THE RED SHOES on Free Thinking, Radio 3 on 14 September. Let's dance! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...