Big Jim

Culture hero @NewLeftReview @TheBafflerMag

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers https://t.co/labvLbmMxg

[斎藤幸平 @koheisaito0131]

舐めんなよ、クソが

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

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[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

Owen Hatherley on John Berger:

‘I have always found much of this subsequent work harder to take, caught between being moved by its hard humanity and irritated by its sententiousness.’

https://t.co/TVPRoMFORb

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

James Wham (@James_Wham) on Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent':

'These stories started as a joke, of course, a bit of mischief, but the perna cabeluda soon became a metonym for unacknowledged state violence – a way of speaking the unsaid.'

https://t.co/TfPVV0XqlG

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

i wrote about Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour for @thebafflermag

https://t.co/DzDxGejrAA

[Neil Young 1971 @BohemiaStable]

one of the most entertaining, wide-ranging and perceptive writers on film (and other subjects), James Wham @James_Wham reports from Karlovy Vary @KVIFF on *that* Kafka-retro for @FilmComment.
https://t.co/kltBh1GYIN

[Big Jim @James_Wham]

@BohemiaStable @KVIFF @FilmComment Far too kind - thank you.

[Ryan Coleman @repulsivecream]

wonderful piece of criticism. clean, analytical information-rich, always specific in its insights.

[Big Jim @James_Wham]

I wrote about Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his new film, About Dry Grasses - with word on the superfluous man, Turkish intellectuals, hope and hopelessness, a French clown - for Sidecar @NewLeftReview

https://t.co/ONHGCsnaVd

[Leo Robson @leorobsonwriter]

For the London-based monthly @Lit_Review, I asked @James_Wham — one of the most entertaining and intellectually inventive film critics around — to write a piece about Frank Herbert and Dune II. It’s excellent
https://t.co/fqrABF8Hm1

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

“Is Miyazaki a sleeper agent of the Freudo-Marxists, or is this just the nature of children’s films?”

@James_Wham @NewLeftReview on #TheBoyAndTheHeron

https://t.co/4xECMed9ng

[Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach @Greg_Gerke]

Exemplary review-no hype. Clean, cold cuts of sentences. An ultimately disappointing film for me that didn't seem to know if wanted to be funny or not, but Reichardt is never funny. Williams is still our best current actress. @James_Wham https://t.co/zmgaB5QJlV

[Neil Young 1971 @BohemiaStable]

finally got around to reading @James_Wham's 3,000-word Cannes dispatch "Côte d’Illusion" (about this year's festival, etc etc etc etc).... and can now recommend you do the same.
https://t.co/Ss0zIlxICb

[Big Jim @James_Wham]

Wrote about one of my favourite films from Cannes - Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) - for @NewLeftReview

https://t.co/ad7ByzPboI

[Christina Newland @christinalefou]

My favourite piece I've read about Cannes - this year or any. Barbed, funny, brilliant. https://t.co/kkCWnrDYhU

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

On #Cannes2023

@pietrobianchi_ (@e_flux) https://t.co/P5mRQSfOkZ

@JordanCronk (@Artforum) https://t.co/vj9BseeG0K

@caitdoherty (@NewLeftReview) https://t.co/cIpuOeKBAd

@devikagirgayi (@FilmComment) https://t.co/ecrY4gOmdI

@James_Wham (@thebafflermag) https://t.co/caVBViULBC

[edo @edogoesboating]

Big Jim has Cannes’s number

[Big Jim @James_Wham]

Went back to Cannes this year and had the strange sense of history repeating. Here's me from 1834, 1939, 2023, and some far-off century, for @thebafflermag

https://t.co/8V4PjcSAdR