PeterLondonFilmWriter81

@PeterLondon81Writer
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Film writer and film essays. I write pop culture essays about film, theatre, literature, television, often through a queer lens
#filmwriter #essayist #filmlover #popculture
My substackhttps://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h
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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Feb 16

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/watching-amelie-on-valentines-day?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

A great film for Valentines Day

#amelie #frenchcinema #romanticcomedy

Watching 'Amélie' on Valentine's Day

'Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain' is one of the funniest, smartest, romantic films to watch on Valentine's Day

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Feb 16

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/galaxy-quest-is-wonderful-satire?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My take on the cult comedy classic/satire Galaxy Quest

#galaxyquest #timallen #timallenigourneyweaver #SigourneyWeaver #comedy

'Galaxy Quest' is Wonderful Satire and Camp

When William Shatner hosted Saturday Night Live in December of 1986 during the show’s eleventh season, he starred in one the most memorable sketches of SNL‘s forty-eighth history.

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Feb 7

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/re-watching-but-im-a-cheerleader?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

Watched the cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader and stayed for a fabulous Q&A with filmmaker Jamie Babbit
#queer #queercinema #natashalyonne #butimacheereleader #CultClassics #JamieBabbit

Re-watching 'But I'm a Cheerleader

Prince Charles Cinema in London hosted a screening of the film followed by a Q&A with the film's director, Jamie Babbit

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 31

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/shopping-for-used-books-around-bloomsbury?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

I share the titles I picked up on a shopping trip in Bloomsbury

#books #bookshoppingspree #bloomsbury #bookhaul

Shopping for used books around Bloomsbury

Currently, I am reading Ian Patterson’s Books: A Manifesto or How to Build a Library.

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 30

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/she-was-a-comedic-chameleon-the-comic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

#catherineohara #ripcatherineohara #comedygreat

She was a comedic chameleon: The comic genius of Catherine O'Hara

Catherine O'Hara was the brightest comedy star

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 29

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/cult-classics-revisited-the-mirror?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My essay on a campy - if ridiculous - take on Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd with a pre-Jessica Fletcher as Miss Marple
#agathachristie #missmarple #angelalansbury

Cult classics revisited: 'The Mirror Crack'd'

Because of PBS, ITV, and Masterpiece Theatre, Agatha Christie stories have long become exclusive to television.

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 27

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/tracy-and-hepburn-class-up-desk-set?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My take on a minor classic of the Tracy-Hepburn filmography. Though it will never rank high among the duos work, Desk Set does bring up pointed questions about the automation of the workforce and its effect on labour. We are reading headlines about AI supplementing people and this film depicts a similar anxiety in the 1950s.

Tracy and Hepburn class up "Desk Set"

It’s interesting when older movies have themes that can transcend the trappings of their time - in Walter Lang’s 1957 Desk Set, it’s the fear of incoming technology that will displace human workers.

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 25

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/loving-bookshops-reading-books-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

An essay about loving books and loving reading - New Yorker Helene Hanff's ingratiating memoir depicting her 20-year friendship with a book manager of a London bookshop, even though they never met in real life and Hanff never made it to London until she got her book published in the '70s.

#84charingcrossroad #helenehanff #booklover

Loving bookshops, reading, books, and London with Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road

After reading Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road I was struck at the long friendship that the author forged with Frank Doel, the manager of the late/great London bookshop, Marks & Co.

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 24

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/before-only-murders-in-the-building?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

An essay I wrote about Manhattan Murder Mystery and how its premise predicted Only Murders in the Building

#dianekeaton #woodyallen #manhattanmurdermystery #comedy #OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding

Before 'Only Murders in the Building', there was Woody Allen's 'Manhattan Murder Mystery'

In its fifth season, Only Murders in the Building is a critical and popular phenomenon.

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PeterLondonFilmWriter81Jan 24

https://open.substack.com/pub/peteronfilm/p/candy-bergen-and-jackie-bisset-trade?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5zer1h

My review essay of George Cukor's soapy, campy kitschfest

#CandiceBergen #JacquelineBisset #georgecukor #camp #comedy

Candy Bergen and Jackie Bisset trade barbs and tears in the soapy "Rich and Famous"

George Cukor was known as a “woman’s director,” helming films with such legendary and grand actresses as Katherine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, and Audrey Hepburn.

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