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Terrific piece.
I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
Excellent piece and as an avid reader I hope he’s right. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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If you’re on #Letterboxd do follow @FilmNoirUK’s brand new #FilmNoirFest HQ page: boxd.it/nQctr
#FilmNoir
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On Monday this stag was hounded to exhaustion by the Quantock Staghounds before being shot. Dogs, riders, and even quads hunted the animal, hounding him for three hours until he could move no more. Then the gunman approached and finished him off.
The QSH huntsman Martin Watts, and master Chris Gibbons are both in court later this month for a separate incident where a stag was hunted for over five hours and killed in March 2026. You can read more about that here 👉🏻 huntsabs.org.uk/quantock-hun…
Thanks to Mendip Hunt Sabs, North Dorset Hunt Sabs and Somerset Hunt Sabs for documenting Monday’s cruel hunt.
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In the short run the school protests in France could die down, but the discontent is unlikely to dissipate. After nearly ten years under Emmanuel Macron, the country wants change economist.com/europe/2026/10…
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This is the moment the Quantock Staghounds killed a stag yesterday after a 4 hour chase. The stag had gone far beyond his body's capabilities and could no longer move as a gunman walks right up to him and shoots. The suffering is inconceivable. 🎞️ by @SomersetSabs @mendiphuntsabs
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A hare who was caught and mauled by greyhounds is carried away and put in a box. The Irish Government must urgently ban hare coursing and give full protection to the Irish Hare https://xitter.cf/t.co/sAHRpzfLVr @JamesBrowneTD @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD #AnimalCruelty #BanHareCoursing
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Ireland's cruel hare coursing https://xitter.cf/t.co/ecsk7UJrNK Shame on Heritage Minister @JamesBrowneTD to licensing this barbarity. Irish Hares should be protected, not persecuted #Ireland #AnimalCruelty
Looking forward to reading this, especially having spent nearly 40 years navigating arts politics and politics in the arts. And Wilson is a fine writer - check out Someone Else’s Music: Opera and the British.
Publication day for my new book is Friday but pre-orders are already arriving with readers!
"Admirably spirited" - @dcsandbrook
"Passionate, lucid and inspiring" - @AmandaPCraig
"A brave and necessary book" - @RichardBratby
We showed this many years ago. Terrific film. It’s now coming out on Blu-ray at last.
Flicker Alley presents the Blackhawk Films restoration of King Vidor’s The Crowd. flickeralley.com/products/th…
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Don’t forget we are screening two of Hitchcock’s masterpieces The Lodger (1927) and Vertigo (1958) together on the biggest and loudest screen Bristol has in November. More info: Alfred Hitchcock Double Bill at Bristol Megascreen hdfst.uk/e152362
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TOMORROW!
Last chance to join us at St George’s Bristol for a day of Slapstick Conversations - three special fundraisers with @GraemeGarden1 and @SamiraAhmedUK , @GrumpyOldRick and #BenSadler, and Sounds of the Seventy Year Olds with @G_RhysJones .
Links in bio 🔗
I’ve written a piece for the festival catalogue on this film and look forward to seeing it on the big screen.
With @SWSilents and @flickeralley we have the UK PREMIERE of the new restoration of crime #SilentFilm The Racket (1928) as part of #FilmNoirFest 2026. Live music by @NeilBrandLive.
If you don’t have a #FilmNoir pass; single tickets are now on sale: wsm.merlincinemas.co.uk/film…
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Join the Slapstick team!
We are looking for an organised, experienced Senior Operations Manager based at our Bristol office three days a week to play a key role in delivering our annual Festival and year-round events - full job description and how to apply via the link in bio.
ALT The Slapstick Festival 2026 team and volunteers ‘Work with Slapstick Festival’
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Thanks to @penguinrandom, an audience member at #SlapstickConversations @GrumpyOldRick: Music, Mayhem and the Movies will win a copy of his new book ‘The Wizard of Prog’!
Grab a ticket for Sunday 4th Oct 17:30 at @stgeorgesbris to be in with a chance of winning 👇
ALT Poster for “Slapstick Conversations” with Rick Wakeman, promoting an event on 4th October at 17:30 in St George’s, Bristol, with a chance to win a signed copy of his autobiography.
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Marking its centenary year; we’re planning a special double bill celebrating Fritz Lang’s #SilentFilm masterpiece Metropolis (1927) screening alongside Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). More info: hdfst.uk/e162843
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SOUTHERNERS! To everyone who's been asking when's the next cinema screening of A Hard Day's Night down South - it's BRISTOL Sunday. 12pm for a triple bill, or you can come for a 2pm start for Buster Keaton and the Beatles - introduced by me. Book signing too. Tix below: 🎞️🎸🎥🎶
Join us and @SamiraAhmedUK on Sunday 13th September for a bit of classic #silentfilm mayhem... with a twist! This special #Bristol event includes Buster Keaton AND The Beatles and much more! Part of the @BFI Rip It UP Season.
Tickets and more info here: hdfst.uk/e157636
