Claire Vaughan
@pixieglas
🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'. Enthusiast. She / her / hi. Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff. Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
So excited to see one of my favourite films of all time on the big screen at Chapter next weekend. DEATH BY STEREO! The Lost Boys + Evolution of Horror book launch! Get yer tickets whilst you're still able to wear a garlic necklace. @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social www.chapter.cymru/whats-on/evo...
I don't get emotional about celebrities passing very often but, oh! Sam Neill. He gave us some of the most wonderful performances but I've really enjoyed how much he's given of himself in his posts from the farm. Seeing his gentle kindness with animals has been a joy. We've lost a lovely man.
Lupita Nyong'o is simply a very beautiful woman, one of the most beautiful women in the world that is why she was cast as the world's most beautiful woman. The frothing bots on X are racist. Wtf is this headline?? (and no I'm not clicking on the article to read it, this is offensive bullshit)
Watched the Sabrina (1995) remake today. It has such an odd tone, first half drags but Harrison Ford is incredible in it and the cast! It's like all the best character actors turned up to do one line.
I'm so proud of brilliant Dan Young who I've known for more than 20yrs and has just won the The Association of British Theatre Technicians 'Technician of the Year Award'! Dan has always been the friendliest, most professional and creative, warm-hearted person working in Theatre. The absolute best.
Penblwydd hapus! Many happy days spent on the Sound in these beauties.
Fantastic to have a packed crowd on a sunny Sunday for @pritchardswyd.bsky.social and the moving doc The Road of Excess. Diolch o galon i Lee Nabbs from Mockingbird Cinema for taking this wonderful Welsh film on a Q&A tour around the UK. More dates on their site mbentertainment.co.uk/the-road-of-...
I dearly miss living a short run down the lane to the sea in Trebarwith most of the year. But I never miss it during the summer. I reckon I have anxiety forever in summer months due to emmets.
Fab day out with my mate Rich to see the brilliant For Wales See Wales pod. More sunshine, more laughter, more caring about improving Wales. Am byth.
Fantastic night at Chapter with Thighpaulsandra, Xavier Laradji & Jill Westwood with films of COIL. Incredible achievement archiving, digitising from mouldy prints hundreds of hours of footage edited into this beautiful, moving, funny package of films. Diolch o galon @docnrollfilms.bsky.social
They've done Chappell Roan and Charli XCX fan edits of his speeches.
Guys, I've seen a Milifan post from someone claiming to be 19. What is old is new again.
I still can't believe that tomorrow night I'm going to be interviewing my childhood crush, the unbelievably charismatic Tanita Tikaram, on stage at Chapter. Buy a ticket and find out if I turn into a puddle or not. www.chapter.org/whats-on/doc...
Despite everything people (me included) are saying about Labour, the absolutely amazing Shavannah Taj won a Senedd seat yesterday. She is genuinely one of the best people in Wales and she will work hard for making things better for people. Good things today to be hopeful for.
In Wales everything is going to change this election. Be part of the positive and progressive change. I've got a horrible cold and croaked out my address to the polling clerk. You'd have to kidnap me and put me in a coma to stop me voting, it's so important.
Tiktok is weird. I made one short comment on a post showing Welsh actor Luke Evans being brilliant and funny and apparently all the Luke Evanses in every multiverse are following me... (I don't think any of these are the actor Luke Evans).
Paul Robeson, for those who don't know, didn't just sing like thunder was rumbling darkly in your soul and filling you with hope and joy; didn't just have unwavering belief in emancipation from capitalism and historical imperialism and the powers of community. He also looked llike this.
Listening to the latest episode of @thisamericanlife.org and stunned that Americans don't seem to know about Paul Robeson. He's so beloved here in Wales, he's a proper folk hero that so many of our grandparents remember going to see sing and speak. This was such a wonderful episode, so enlightening.
Fantastic lecture @miskatonicihs.bsky.social from @jamesrendell.bsky.social on His House, one of the best films of the 2020s. I've been searching for more writing about it since I saw it in the depths of Lockdown. Diolch i Josh & James. I hope to make it to more events in The Horse Hospital!
Listening to the latest @slate.com Culture Gabfest ep where they are talking about sharing a pic of Dana's Cockapoo and I have never felt more like a meme so much in my life.
The Drama with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson is out today. A delicious treat which I really enjoyed. I have also been enjoying the narrative red carpet Zendaya and Law Roach have put together. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Perfection! (alt text for detail).
We've had a great time at Chapter today with Pigeon Laughs Comedy Festival. Screened a preview of The Golden Cobra season 2 and it was so nice for the Beastly Media team to hear the proper big laughter of a huge audience rather than people watching it at home. Cinema is magic.