I am a sucker for Resnais in this period and I absolutely adored Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime… Bravo @filmsradiance.bsky.social #FilmSky boxd.it/fB5mpZ

Ha! Yes. It’s HUGE but very rewarding. Schama is an elegant writer.

New episode of Bikes and Guitars coming soon. Here’s a tiny snippet of us being us.

He is a very articulate, urbane presenter. Perfect for the format and narrative history

My nine books off the top of my head. 💙📚

Have had my share of strange and wonderful cinemas here in Berlin but this one in a graveyard must top the list...

Fine. I walked for a reasonable distance today. Tiring but necessary. Sitting at home was driving me nuts! Thank you for asking 👍

It possessed a cachet as I grew up (due to the riots and its pop culture referencing by The Smiths), but beyond that, I knew nothing of its workings (weird or no!).

🤣 It has been moved into a shelf that is near to hand… 😎

160 odd pages in and… There’s a LOT of white dudes in this book. To be expected, given the author (maybe), but for somebody with pretensions to voracious cultural appetites, it is still disappointing and very much undercuts his worth as a 20th Century commentator.

Yeah = well I suggest whoever classifies a country as “safe” goes there first with their family.

Agreed. Rarely has there been a more incisive, sometimes barbed, but always humane writer in 20th Century/21st Century prose than Didion.

Eccentric, Kevin. You gain the privilege of the more benign epithet through your erudition and garrulous humour. I’m the crazy one 🤣👍😎

9 non-fiction books that have never been forgotten by me: A People’s Tragedy (Figes) The Big Screen (Thomson) Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion) Citizens (Schama) Natasha’s Dance (Figes) The Story of Looking (Cousins) Ways of Seeing (Berger) The Little Virtues (Ginzburg) This Young Monster (Fox)

I used to find writing so therapeutic. It took time and effort and revision but it soothed sometimes too. I miss writing nonsense for audiences that did not exist 🤣😬