AnneBillson

@AnneBillson@mastodon.sdf.org

Film critic, novelist, screenwriter, translator, photographer, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter based in The Low Countries. Likes frites, beer and chocolate.

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First non-grey sky in ages + even got some winter sun on my face. Lovely light in het Stadspark + bonus goose.

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AnneBillson,

@arratoon Words to live by!

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I ranked 20 bathtub scenes from the movies! This was a lot of fun to do. (Eat your heart out, Saltburn.) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/11/the-20-best-bathtub-scenes-ranked

AnneBillson,

@arratoon Thanks! For the past four years I had a bathtub and I think I took only two baths in all that time; mostly it's showers, and now I've moved to a flat without a tub anyway. Can't remember when I last had a bubble bath.

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I wrote about Emma Stone. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/29/entirely-astounding-emma-stones-star-continues-to-rise-with-poor-things?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Look, it's me! And Ava! In the January programme for Antwerpen's De Cinema, where I'll be introducing (in English, alas; my Dutch is still pants) one of my all-time top ten films from Sight & Sound's 2022 poll: Peter Weir's MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD.

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AnneBillson,

@arratoon I don't think you'll regret it! I could easily have watched another three hours of it.

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Happy Psycho Day to all who celebrate.

AnneBillson, to random

@arratoon There's a Waterstone's in Brussels. Also both Brussels branches of Fnac have English language sections, I think.

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    AnneBillson,

    @arratoon There's a Waterstone's in Brussels. Also both Brussels branches of Fnac have English language sections, I think.

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    Hello! I ranked Emma Stone’s 20 best performances! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/02/emma-stones-20-best-performances-ranked?CMP=share_btn_tw

    AnneBillson,

    @arratoon I was prepared to loathe it, but (rather to my annoyance) found it grand entertainment, much more fun than expected. Stone is great, and I was also very impressed with Joel Fry - there's some real poignancy there.

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    Before vs After.

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    AnneBillson,

    @arratoon A very good tip! Thank you.

    AnneBillson, to random

    Spent most of the past month reading this very, very long biography of Madonna for The Times books. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/madonna-a-rebel-life-by-mary-gabriel-review-vqt2kl68g?fbclid=IwAR2XvGw_np3YHQ9gBCkbTBXWALPQtolMYnzjkQGyQmoa4nl1Os96tCgxFOA_aem_AajHUdM1shn1N9pnqgey5PB3cekZ88RfevE-0Rn_d5XjzUJSFbwT4_Li4_EO_D0S42Q

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    It's me! Talking about - what else? - CATS ON FILM! in the latest episode of the excellent Screenshot podcast. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmnz

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    Happy birthday Stephen King. Here he is in 1983, encountering a fish-paste sandwich in the tea room at Brown's hotel, London. (Photographs by Anne Billson)

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    Don't normally drink beer before a film in case I need to go for a pee in the middle, but as Pedro Almodóvar's STRANGE WAY OF LIFE is only 31 minutes long I am permitting myself an Orval in the relative coolth of the foyer at Cartoon's bioscoop.

    AnneBillson,

    @arratoon Yes! You have to approach epic-length films with the discipline of a monk/nun unless you don't mind missing five minutes in the middle.

    AnneBillson,

    @arratoon YES! Last film I saw with an intermission was RRR.

    AnneBillson, to random

    After many heartrending sacrifices & gruelling treks, laden like a sherpa, to boekhandels, kringwinkels & Oxfam shops, these are the only books left to me: double-shelved & in no kind of order. Now to get rid of surplus Billies & bring those cardboard boxes up from the kelder.

    AnneBillson,

    @arratoon I said to myself: I LOVE this book, it's one of my favourites, but will I read it again before I die? Probably not (I'm nearly 70...). And if I REALLY want to reread it, I’ll just have to buy it again. Plus nowadays I tend to read novels on my kindle (especially French ones, because you can look up words instantly). On the other hand, I have way WAY too many big, heavy art books. (The main incentive - I will soon be moving to a much smaller - but nicer - flat.)

    AnneBillson, to random

    Naomi Klein on being mistaken for Naomi Wolf. (Reminder: Klein is fine, but Wolf is oof)
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/26/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-conspiracy-theories

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    Poeka on The Brushing Chair.

    AnneBillson, to random

    Not sure I want to join a social media platform called Threads.

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