Janice Tong

Cinephile + list maker + reader of poetry = me :)

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Just to be clear - given recent drivel on line - Comet 3I/Atlas is a comet, made of carbon dioxide and water ices and bits of other stuff. It is entirely natural in origin, its orbit is as expected and it will whizz around the sun and then disappear off into the galaxy again. If it ever encounters another inhabited solar system in the far future I hope the living things there are more sensible than us and enjoy it for what it is - a visitor from elsewhere in the galaxy - a pristine lump of rock and ices which formed around a distant, maybe long-dead star billions of years ago and many light years away, just passing through. Isn’t that wonderful enough?

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Nuri Bilge #Ceylan's #aboutdrygrasses is an exceptional #film, both languorous and torturous in pace (3hrs 14mins) and in its depiction of the #humancondition ... #Read my #filmreview here: https://t.co/nQbAInLF0V

#cinema #moviereviews #MovieReview #Cannes

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

🎞Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is an auteur whose films defy genre conventions. His latest film: Evil Does Not Exist✨ poses a thought experiment about the visible and the invisible. Read my review here: https://t.co/R5Pk83A4tS
#japanesefilm #moviereview #filmreview #movies #hamaguchi #film

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Check out my latest #moviereview: the #epic The Three Musketeers: D'artagnan and Milady by Martin Bourboulon with Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Vincent Cassel at the @af_fff_aus this year!
https://t.co/J30q6vEFfl
#films #filmreview #frenchfilms #cinemafrancais #moviestowatch #movies

[Women Film Directors @women_direct]

An incredible 1975 roundtable with directors Liliane de Kermadec, Marguerite Duras, Chantal Akerman and Delphine Seyrig.

They talk about their main problem making films is getting them funded. Duras says in 8 years of directing she never got a salary for it.

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Defending Cinephilia 2023 : On Wandering Paths summing up of all that is luminous over the last 12 months on screen. https://t.co/KCet4SLKsY
#movies #film #movie #Cinema #Netflix #koreandrama #anime

[Reconsidering Cinema @coenesqued2]

Elevator To The Gallows (1958) score was composed and performed by Miles Davis in a one session recording while he watched a screening of the film. He took notes while watching the rough cut and then invited 4 fellow musicians without preparation to record it in one go. Genius.

[Lamp 染谷大陽 @lamp_someya]

one month left

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

What a lovely morning here at Sydney Harbour waterfront! About to meet our team to go to hear @jamesclear speak about #atomichabits 🙌🏻

#team #teamwork #microchange #onepercent #newhabits

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

@philipisfat @davidcinema Fallen Angels dir. Wong Kar-wai

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Sir Salman Rushdie…need I say more?

#defiance #freedom #writing #penismightier #thenewyorker #thenewyorkermagazine #saturdaymorning https://t.co/0bdtM6ibQQ

[Phil Barnett @squinancywort1]

If heaven exists I think it will be a bluebell wood, it will always be late April, and the sun will always be just coming up.

There will be a joyous dawn chorus and the sound of nearby running water.

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Read my review on Jean Eustache's iconic 1973 film The Mother and the Whore - first screening in Australia this Thursday night at Ritz Cinema Randwick. Strap in for 3 hr 40 mins with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun.

#frenchfilm https://t.co/v3NjaBAbiN

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Jean Eustache’s iconic 3hr 40mins film The Mother and the Whore is FINALLY screening in Australia! Restored in 4K ♥️One session only @randwickritz Thur 27th Apr 7pm. Read my write-up on the film here: https://t.co/8NokIhdVnM
#jeaneustache #Frenchfilm #cinema #films #NEWWAVE #film

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

All objects, big or small, cast shadows and so do mountains. However, one particular peak displays a peculiar behavior – it cast shadows not only on the ground, but also up in the clouds. This photo of Mt Rainier was captured by Lisa Bishop

[source: https://t.co/gREzHTumjy]

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

2 reviews: Cédric Jimenez's blockbuster, November, follows the anti-terrorism unit's work after the Bataclan attack. Mia Hansen-Løve’s very personal film, One Fine Morning, pays tribute to her late father. #frenchfilms #movies #leaseydoux #jeandujardin https://t.co/E3TApRiD5k

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes is an exception film; we enter into a poetic world -- through the litter, pollution and injury -- we find the ourselves in the heart of the spiritual. #allthatbreathes #filmreviews #movies #documentary #wildlife https://t.co/7rVfhv5J9o

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

French Film Fest highlight: Alice Diop's first feature is a tour de force - plays out political, mythic & motherhood in the guise of a real-life court case - infanticide. Medea & Duras; language & memory all come together in this film. #filmreview #movies https://t.co/ZNg70zb5eD

[Janice Tong @nightfirehorse]

First two films from AFFF: heart-breaking autobio work, Winter Boy, Christophe Honoré, one of the most inventive French dir alive today; and Louis Garrel's hit comedy The Innocent. #frenchfilmfestival #filmreviews #films #frenchfilm #movies #comedy #drama https://t.co/r142GHgQdM