Marc David Jacobs

Perennially phoneless freelance film nerd and ex-@ScotsQueerFilm unprofessionalist. Supports trans rights, feminism, Scottish independence and @SilverFernsNZ.

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From groundbreaking bisexual polyamory to jeeps full of muscle men with crabs, come celebrate John Schlesinger's queer legacy in a joyful and irreverent #BFIFlare talk (by me!), featuring rare glimpses into several films the director wasn't allowed to make:https://t.co/KbJ3VCJNts

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Walking anywhere in London this week

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If you are using AI search tools to find the results of Brent's 2026 local elections, please be aware that it may not give you reliable information. We are still counting.

The latest results can be found at https://t.co/9vCEt7xOr3 - this is the best source for official info.

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Simply impossible not to love any bookshop that has its own Bashevis section, even when there's only one book in it.

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RIP Glen Baxter. Farewell, Colonel.

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A wee archival highlight from my BFI Flare talk yesterday - John Schlesinger reveals how Laurence Olivier inadvertently ended up making Marathon Man less gay:

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(Really good of The Guardian to use this picture where Schlesinger looks EXACTLY like my dad. Gonna try not to unpack that one too much lol)

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It's live!! The John Schlesinger centenary retrospective that @ClaireNico and I have produced is underway, with screenings planned from Canterbury to Inverness.

Full details on our website, with more confirmed venues coming soon: https://t.co/e02HlBGyp5

https://t.co/xTqm2rXysg

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@djmackler @RomanPBone1 @ClaireNico It absolutely does from us!! Delighted we're getting to show it at the @CinemaMuseum on 26th March, and from their own 35mm print as well: https://t.co/LWKDobH8M8

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It's live!! The John Schlesinger centenary retrospective that @ClaireNico and I have produced is underway, with screenings planned from Canterbury to Inverness.

Full details on our website, with more confirmed venues coming soon: https://t.co/e02HlBGyp5

https://t.co/xTqm2rXysg

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@themoderns_ @ClaireNico Aw, thanks so much Annabel!! That's so kind of you. And yes, Terminus is brilliant, isn't it? Fingers crossed, maybe we'll get to screen it somewhere near Waterloo station at some point!

[Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm]

@MarcDavidJacobs @ClaireNico @RobertElms @BBCRadioLondon All the details of the John Schlesinger centenary season can be found here ... https://t.co/Xclfouu4dW

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The forthcoming nationwide tour of the John Schlesinger centenary season, curated by @MarcDavidJacobs & @ClaireNico, featured on @RobertElms @BBCRadioLondon show on Sunday ... (at 1hr 40mins in on this programme) ... https://t.co/5yDetUfCQZ

[Time Out Film @TimeOutFilm]

Look out for a special John Schlesinger season @arthouseN8 Feb-March. ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘Marathon Man’, ‘Billy Liar’ are all screening in a celebration of the Londoner’s work.
📌 https://t.co/p6qPnlrUpk

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Well, at least the lovely @LumoTravel staff are having a good day.

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What an honour to sit down with the globetrotting
@ksalisbury (of Not Your China Doll fame!) and have a proper ramble through so many of the forgotten sides of early British cinema, from anti-Sinophobic student campaigns to acrobats-turned-actor-producers:
https://t.co/1pyrIwT0jJ

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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971, dir John Schlesinger)

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The two most telling Terence Davies quotes from tonight's event:

'Success is transient - only failure endures.'

'It's better to be completely forgotten than half-remembered.'

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A thrill to be in a sold-out crowd at yesterday's 35mm screening of The Neon Bible - a film whose lacklustre reputation belies both its brilliance and importance in Terence Davies's development, with its careful staging and shifting moods carried through long takes like this one:

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In which I stun the nation by being the first random punter allowed to snout around in Terence Davies's personal archives, and make a heartbreaking discovery about the possible inspiration behind that unforgettable montage sequence from The House of Mirth: https://t.co/KDiF85920j

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And, true to form, there are already far more obituaries for Peter Watkins today, now that he is dead, than there were celebrations for him on Wednesday, when he was still alive.

Why should we celebrate
These dead men more than the dying?
- TS Eliot, Little Gidding (1942)

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A fitting critical tribute to the great Peter Watkins on this, his 90th birthday.

And, wholly in keeping with his career-length neglect, this appears to be today's only marker for one of the greatest living British directors: one who hasn't been able to make a film for 25 years.