Saoirse Selway
@saoirseonline
Filmmaker, writer, editor, musician, dreamwaver! Previous short films Rot & Dead Head. Upcoming The Cephalopod.
We'll be launching a crowdfunder for The Cephalopod in the next few days! We've already recorded with some find actors but if we want to finish this one we'll need another 6-10k probably, so we're aiming high! Watch this space!
#NowWatching The Hand of Night (aka: Beast of Morocco) in 480 of God's Own P
My month in music for June 2026. What's your favourite album here?
I didn't actually cry but fuck like I may as well have done. This got me bad. It's the first time I saw real honest to god trans people depicted honestly on screen. Cultures like this to support queer people are a dying breed and I haven't really found one in my lifetime. It effected me beyond words
RALPH INESON: (The Witch, Nosferatu, The Green Knight) is playing our monster, The Cephalopod. This man was also a joy to work with and it felt like he really understood the project. His voice is not to be forgotten.
KATE DICKIE: (Red Road, The Witch, Game of Thrones), has wrapped on the role of ANGELA, our female lead. Katie a dream of an actor to work with. She will work incredibly hard for what she knows you want. It felt like working with someone truly on my wavelength.
My Month in Music for Febuary 2026 What's your favourite album here?
My month in music for January 2026. What's our favourite album here?
I think you all need to see these photos I took especially the first two
I've already got through two of the books from my reading this list year because I deviated so hard from it last year that it's embarassing. Also I'll say again, recommend me books!
My month in music; December 2025 What's your favourite album here?
The top spot goes to a tender exploration of childhood. Sciamma shows up on screenplay duties and renders a quiet anger at what these children have to deal with. It takes a lot to make my Dad cry and this manages it. Children deserve more movies that show them the scope of emotion this does.
Very few films this year have filled me with as much joy for not only humanity but cinema itself than Tampopo. It feels free to where it wants, show you what it wants to show you, get lost in cul de sacs or take flights of fancy as the camera takes you from the story to an accent flavour. Lovely.
A famously unfinished masterpiece. The cracked and fragmented nature of this peice lends it a political relevance that elevates it and givers its unhinged, chaotic nature only a more mind scrabbling tenor. If you can keep up with the many revalations of this one, you're a smarter girl than I...
Do you hate capitalism? I do! And this movie does too! I previously loved Sayles entries like Lone Star and The Brother from Another Planet, but this tops both of them. The painterly eye, the epic sweep, the sombre performances. This is a Great American Movie of the kind people asking for.
Another film on the top of this list for how it spoke to me personally, But I'm A Cheerleader is a charming slice of 90s indie rebellios filmmaking, a satire of hetero normativity and gender construction with tender, heart tingling romance under the center. It's the only thing I've liked Ru Paul in
Fallen Leaves is a heart rending romance from the Finnish master, Aki Kaurismäki. Told with the simplicity and precision that only Kaurismäki can, so many scenes from this movie stand out to me, even now, for their pure melancholy and simple heart ache. This is one for the yearners.
Why didn't Stanley Tucci direct more movies? This film made my heart sing. Conventional kind of story but not one told enough, and here told with so much heart and passion and soul. Ugh, it's a delight. If you haven't seen it, treat yourself, watch it tonight. You will feel better about the world.
The movie that ranks the highest purely off the classical craftmanship and sharpness of script, All About Eve is a classic for a reason. It feels like a story you've heard before (Showgirls, hello), but this is the best version of that story I have yet seen. Electric performances all around.
The final film by David Lynch, the maestro of cinema, Inland Empire is not for everyone. Similarly to The Return, Inland Empire finds Lynch signing off with his most challenging work, his work that experiments the most, work that finds him challenging the boundaries he himself set.
Another film that spoke to me specifically, Secretary explores loss of control, and taking control, and how that sits in mental illness, gender, and sexuality. It goes to places you wouldn't expect, and Maggie Gyllenhaal's chracter feels like such a fleshed out, real character. I found it magnetic.
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea starts with a premise that is outrageous and politically provocative, it gets you ready for a movie similar to The Cremator that will stare stright into the face of fascism, but this film is more interested in laughing in the face of fascists.
Velvet Goldmine reimagines with the 70s glam rock scene with an eye that really understands it, where it stands in the legacy of fan culture, masculinity, and queerness. I worry slightly that the reason its reception was rough might be becuse people weren't ready for the questions it was asking.