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Anne Billson

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Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.

Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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A big bonjour from the totally normal-looking La fiancée (1894) by Émile Fabry (1865-1966). (I haven't been able find out whether this was his fiancée or someone's else's.) #LesBelges

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Probably a hotel in London.

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AJ MacReady's avatar AJ MacReady @ajmacready.bsky.social
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I always dug the flick. but this cut is sick as FUCK (seriously, so cool. you should give it a shot if you haven't.) so imma watch it again tonite! this is a good idea, damn

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Toby Miller's avatar Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social
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There’s a picture book waiting to spring from my neighbour’s phone autocorrecting Cat Bed to Cathedral. “She’s in her cathedral” is a nice image on which to end the day.

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Goodnight skyline. Today I spent 7 hours in the Louvre, documenting every moon in the building. I am completely done in.

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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I'm reasonably sure you are correct. Edibles, I bet. But am quite taken with the idea of "sympathy terror."

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Suppose I’m watching Equaliser 3 tonight then

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Equaliser 3? This is hilarious. Not even Texas Chain Saw or early Cronenberg, or Grave of the Vampire, which really did very nearly make me faint at the Holloway Odeon in 1975? Also I had to walk out of Lucky Luciano because I was so stoned I became convinced my head was going to fall off.

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Can someone tell him that it is not Caturday yet?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly's avatar The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social
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Got my days wrong and ended up-

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luke the myoclonic jerk's avatar luke the myoclonic jerk @coolhand.bsky.social
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Ok everyone start checking Newskies and dig out your welcome packets

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Belgian art celebrates the UK new order with typical understatement: Nature ou Abondance (circa 1895) by Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) #LesBelges

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Pop has seemingly totally forgotten she’s actually already had breakfast and a walk

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Lindsay Goldwert 's avatar Lindsay Goldwert @lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social
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Trash Cat tried to declare independence but was foiled by tyranny

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Christ Attacked By a Mob (1889) by Henry de Groux (1866-1930). Expelled from Belgian avant garde Groupe des XX after insulting Van Gogh, moved to Paris & (among other exploits) fled from a psychiatric clinic in Florence to walk to Marseilles. Another day in the life of #LesBelges

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So much for Belgian football. Anyhow, here's L'homme qui passe (charcoal) by Georges Le Brun (1873-1914) who died on the Yser front at the age of 41. #LesBelges

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La démoniaque (1893) by Joseph Middeleer (1865-1939), not best known for his Symbolist paintings. But it is inscribed in Belgian Law that even its social realist or landscape painters uphold the national psyche by producing occasional evidence of artistic nuttiness. #LesBelges

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Whenever she got obstinate and refused to move, I found I only had to move my hand towards my pocket and she would suddenly become biddable! (I felt a bit mean doing that so she would still get the treat, sooner or later.)

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Marie Phillips's avatar Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social
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We have got 5m leads for them so they can go all over the garden. You just have to supervise so they don’t get wrapped around a tree. Hildy is obsessed with the long grass

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Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.

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Farran Smith Nehme's avatar Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
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"I turned to my husband and said, 'Oh, boy, that's a little suggestive, isn't it?' And my husband said, 'You got it, honey.' " —on first seeing the famous "train in a tunnel" ending of North by Northwest Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint.

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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What a jungle princess! She who must be obeyed.

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Good girl! And now - post-poll treats! x

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Richard Littler's avatar Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social
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Government should function effectively in the background like white goods. But for the past years it's been like your fridge-freezer noisily demanding attention every 5 mins, switching off for hours at a time, fiddling its definition of 'cold', and eating your food then blaming the washing machine.

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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La démoniaque (1893) by Joseph Middeleer (1865-1939), not best known for his Symbolist paintings. But it is inscribed in Belgian Law that even its social realist or landscape painters uphold the national psyche by producing occasional evidence of artistic nuttiness. #LesBelges

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Let's hear it for Belgium's most famous 20th century artist, René Magritte (1898-1967)! Le Blanc-seing (the Blank Check), from 1965. #LesBelges

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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I know Carolus, but don't think I've tried this particular one. 11%? Probably too strong for me! Last time I accidentally tried an 11% it literally made my head spin... Be careful... but enjoy!

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About a dozen people showed up for the impromptu cat tour, led by John Edwards, who organizes the yearly event, seven years ago. Over a two-mile walk, the group stopped to see some 20 cats peeking through their windows. Now, hundreds of people attend.

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How to give up smoking, 1950s style (from Tears Before Bedtime, by Barbara Skelton)

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Both those films look sensational on the big screen.

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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You might feel underwhelmed. For me, it was a film that gained in stature each time I saw it (see also: Vertigo). I liked it just fine the first time, but it's only once you know what's going on that it reaches its full tragic dimension on both political and personal levels.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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I thought everything that was going to be said about All You Need is Death had been said, but this extraordinary, long piece just went live on Italy24 and it has left me feeling, as they say, seen.
news.italy24.press/movies/19017...

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Let's hear it for Belgium's most famous 20th century artist, René Magritte (1898-1967)! Le Blanc-seing (the Blank Check), from 1965. #LesBelges

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Dipped briefly back into twitter & saw one of the few accounts I miss from there, John Frankensteiner, posting about how Towne hated the movie Greystoke so much he credited his script to his dog, who then went on to win an Oscar.

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Anne Billson's avatar Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
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Yeah, I read that, but I'm the opposite of you: I don't think it did CT justice tbh.

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Towne started out as an actor on films like Corman's CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961) which has the goofiest, Cookie Monster-est monster ever. (I think he's the guy saying "You're a crazy mixed-up kid") www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-7j...

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One of Towne's first screenplays was for Roger Corman's THE TOMB OF LIGEIA (1964). A Major Cat Movie! (& in one scene you can see an anonymous hand holding the cat in position). Elizabeth Shepherd, still with us, was original choice to play Emma Peel in THE AVENGERS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imbd...

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