My essay for the box set of Tod Browning (THE MYSTIC, THE UNKNOWN, and the immortal FREAKS) is up at the @criterion website. I was delighted to go long on the great Browning and his carnie soul. https://t.co/GPImvX68GX

this is awful, and they should all do what i do: keep two massive ikea boxes full of surplus SCART cables and move them from flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat to flat over 20 years

When @SightSoundmag asked me last week to pen an obituary for Terence Davies, I was decimated. I also knew nothing I wrote in the space allotted could do justice to the films or to the human being. It was an honor to have lived with his cinema. https://t.co/S8j6NqXiTX

The landmark British Chinese film Ping Pong is currently available to stream for free via Channel 4! Can't express how groundbreaking this movie is, a madcap 80s Chinatown mystery that's taken decades for the film industry to catch up with Watch here: https://t.co/AMlb8O6jfG

In honor of Werner Herzog's birthday, let us recall that time he saved Joaquin Phoenix from going up in flames:

My video essay on Asian-American director Wayne Wang is screening this week alongside LIFE IS CHEAP BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE as part of @CineRedis's touring programme - catch it here: Weds 23/07 @edfilmfest @Omni_Edinburgh Thurs 24/07 @IFI_Dub https://t.co/FhYHKfAWeB

We screened SORCERER here in Bristol many moons ago, and I can still vividly recall the combination of whimpering and nervous laughter of the surly men sat in the row behind me throughout *that* bridge scene. RIP 👑

If you’re interested in seeing Life is Cheap… let your local cinema/festival know that the film can be booked as part of #CineRedis23 tour w/a video essay intro c/o @iambags following the UK premiere @wshed For more info on booking & support available: https://t.co/uvdO4ihQTQ

Start your week with the trailer of Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive, a stylistically daring & vibrant pulp trip through 1990s #HongKong See it newly restored @edfilmfest @IFI_Dub, @StoryhouseLive & more venues tbc #CineRedis23 https://t.co/AIyaG9Ix85

Announcing the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize✍️ 👥 For UK-based entrants aged 18-30 inclusive 🔖 5000 words max, all writing backgrounds welcome 🤝 £2,000 prize to be awarded ✅ Open now, entries due by 5pm GMT, Nov 6, 2023 Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/OiboMZq8LF

Anyone still on twitter is not allowed ask why the family in the horror movie doesn’t just move house

Tonight! Myself and @iambags will be introducing one of the weirdest and coolest Japanese crime films of the 60s, Branded to Kill, at @CineRedis in the former IMAX at Bristol Aquarium. https://t.co/0vblKjYCtN

Just one week to go until Seijun Suzuki’s wild BRANDED TO KILL (1967) screens in a new 4K restoration on Bristol’s biggest screen @BristolAquarium Fri 28 July 8.30pm introed by @christinalefou & @iambags Book: https://t.co/f6MGzkWxAG

@wshed @CineRedis @_bamcreate It's quite a lineup at @CineRedis, also ft Seijun Suzuki's classic of weird Japanese crime cinema, Branded to Kill, on a former IMAX screen! Introduced by myself and @iambags: https://t.co/0vblKjYCtN

Delighted to unveil the participants in this year's @CineRedis Film Critics' Workshop! So looking forward to working with them over the coming weeks: https://t.co/tcWf4gAdt2

📢 One month to go until the UK Premiere of the new 4K restoration of Branded to Kill at #CineRedis23 on a very BIG screen (the former IMAX at @BristolAquarium ) Fri 28 July 8.30pm with @christinalefou, @iambags & @FilmNoirUK 🩸 Tickets are now onsale: https://t.co/vonWQzdmej

Happy 109th birthday to the very great and very dead horror author Robert Aickman. Here is my @letterboxd list of films that possess the same strange ambiguities, disturbing illogicalities, and psychological unpleasantness as his short stories:

Get ready for Seijun Suzuki’s #NeoNoir #FilmNoir masterpiece Branded to Kill (1967) on the biggest screen in the south west (the former #Bristol IMAX) with special intros by @iambags and our very own @christinalefou! Fri 28 July, 20:30, part of @CineRedis: https://t.co/ef7TZ1W6Ol