David Allison
@davidovitch
TV Screenwriter in Leeds - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz). New series WINTER (ITV/PBS) currently filming. Agent/bio: International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show:
PETER'S FRIENDS. I foolishly took some American friends to see it in Washington DC and I've never felt so ashamed to British in my life. Every single character in it needed to be murdered in cold blood.
My #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: 1. Obtuse, woozy Cornish fishing misery-fest 2. Stunning, terrifying instant horror classic 3. Soapy but charming 'n' sexy period throuple romp 4. Handsome, confident and brilliant re-framing of a literary classic letterboxd.com/davidovitch #Letterboxd #Filmsky
I remember the first time I saw Hockney's East Yorkshire landscapes in Salt's Mill in Saltaire, the very landscape I grew up in and not one I particularly loved. He had somehow rendered its rural nothingness into a place full of wonder and magic. It moved me to tears that he saw what I hadn't.
90+13 equaliser! And we’ve only gone and done it! Congrats @yorkcityfc-unoffic.bsky.social, you absolute beauties 🔴🔵 #YCFC
My #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: 1. A surprisingly conventional but coolly effective early-ish Truffaut. 2. Incredibly enjoyable, quite silly Gosling sci-fi guff. 3. Another stone-cold Bong Joon Ho classic. SO SO GOOD. 4. Underwhelming Oscar bait misery porn. #Letterboxd #Filmsky
The crocuses in Roundhay Park this morning were irresistibly cheerful.
Hell of a @letterboxd.social #LastFourWatched. An uneven, slightly nasty 70s Robert Redford thriller, a stylish coming-of-age Joachim Trier debut, a delightful 60s technicolor Finney and Hepburn marital battle, and Powell & Pressburger's Scottish masterpiece took my breath away. #letterboxdfriday
The @letterboxd.social Wuthering Heights reviews do not disappoint. God I love film nerds.
A slightly disappointing revisit to a 90s arthouse classic, some overwrought Shaker nonsense, a stunning 40s Olivia de Havilland melodrama and a surprisingly moving (if rather implausible) comedy. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
My daughter's friend - from the same local state school - has had a torrid time at Oxford, her Leeds accent constantly mocked, to the extent she's had to change the way she speaks. This was posted on her college's official social media account yesterday. I have no words 😡
Hi Richard, just been alerted to your polls by @bantammac.bsky.social. Here’s my top 10:
Hello all. Always a bit sad that the music chat on here isn't as lively as it was in the old place, used to love sharing our end of year musical round-ups. Anyway, in the spirit of that old Twitter tradition, here are my TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2025. What humdingers did I miss?
An embarrassment of riches this year at @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social, but here are my top 5: 1. Sentimental Value 2. The Secret Agent 3. It Was Just An Accident 4. Pillion 5. A Poet Honourable mentions: Nouvelle Vague, Rains Over Babel See you next year, LIFFers! #LIFF2025
18. THE SECRET AGENT. A breathtaking epic set during the military junta in 70s Brazil with the bones of a political thriller but told with a freshness that made me want to jump with joy. Wagner Moura (aka Pablo Escobar, Narcos fans!) gives the performance of a lifetime. A masterpiece 5/5 #LIFF2025
17. MIRRORS No3. Well it had to happen at some point: a stone cold Euro-stinker, a lifeless and deeply pretentious German dirge full of unlikeable and utterly unbelievable characters played by dead-eyed actors who looked bored out of their minds. I certainly was. 1/5 #LIFF2025
16. THE GREEN RAY (1986). Haven't watched much Rohmer, for my sins, but this was a delight. Talky as hell and not a whole lot happens, but it's a really subtle portrait of a woman trying to escape her own loneliness and you just want live inside the whole thing. 4/5 #LIFF2025