Was watching this again last night, a film I can recommend once again now it's back in circulation via Criterion. Often mislabelled as a horror film when it's really more of a weird tale.

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Available anywhere you get your podcasts. A very personal Comfort Blanket series on the films that led to Star Wars. pod.link/1614879928

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Watching I Claudius at the moment. Small observation but the deep silence in the sound mix in between dialogue is kind of amazing, I feel like I'm right there in some vast old BBC studio. And yet I can't say what precisely is different in the silence in a modern TV show.

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every so often I revisit AC/DC ‘Stiff Upper Lip’. It’s a masterpiece of minimalism. The production is *perfect* - so dry; so warm. You can smell the dust roasting gently on the valves…Phil Rudd doesn’t play a single fill. Not one. Whole album. youtu.be/MRl8s2LqBA4?...

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JD Vance weaving through a crowd of people holding a floppy plate of BBQ meats that is folding in the middle, apologising all the time as he goes.

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