Caspar Salmon
Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
- LA PAGA: really liked this short, stark, bitter black and white film from the 60s, set in Venezuela, screening in a restored version as part of Cannes Classics. Class warfare, poverty, potatoes: some of the images are really beautiful here, and there's a vein of despairing absurdity. #Cannes2025
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- Devastated to discover that I missed this group beatboxing the theme from Mission Impossible on the red carpet yesterday. Very cool! #Cannes2025
- First day in Cannes for your intrepid journalist Caspy - think Tintin but with changing outfits - and the office handing out our press passes opens half an hour *after* today's first film. Ah Cannes, you minx! Never change, O crazèd sorceress! #cannes2025
- In fact it was more of a *hound* whistle
- Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
- Yes, I would say it's a coincidence that a French film director is called Amélie. R u OK babe
- I'm not going to watch Andor because I would rather die the death of Grenouille at the end of Perfume, but I take your word that it's good and am very happy for all of you
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- Compliment retweet, apols
- Ooh yes, VERY good example
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- Here's my latest film column for @animusmagazine.bsky.social, answering a reader's question about loneliness on film. These columns are now free to read, but you can get them earlier with a subscription. Enjoy! And keep the questions coming! X animus-magazine.ghost.io/psycho-48/?r...
- Nadia Whittome leave the Labour party challenge
- Reposted by Caspar SalmonHow nice to be told by Keir Starmer that my mother who delivered babies, as a midwife, worked nights and damaged her back lifting patients as a nurse, was a pillar of her community as a health visitor has caused “incalculable damage” to the UK !
- This guy got married today, to a woman he's been shagging for a month
- Flashback to earlier today when, in short succession, my 11yo asked me if I have friends with different political opinions to my own, and my 7yo tugged my sleeve to ask if I wanted to join him in doing the loser dance at a Tesla we were walking past
- Saw Morrissey's autobiography on a shelf today and had a little dip into it to see what it's like. It's like this
- Very good and well-argued thread about a series of films I personally can't stand but hey that's just me:
- Morons
- I love my children, and I consider Bob Mortimer to be very funny, but having two children aged 7 and 11 who are currently influenced by Bob Mortimer in their comedy is, in some ways, less than ideal
- People will tell you that there are colours that "don't suit you". This is true, but who gives a shit. Also! Try to notice a few things in the world every day, some little thing of interest or beauty that can catch your attention and hold it for a bit.
- Reposted by Caspar SalmonWhy isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?
- Reposted by Caspar SalmonWhenever I have to succinctly describe an historical event or character in a TV/music review I'm always reminded of the inexplicably revered Nick Kent rock memoir, Apathy For The Devil in which he wrote that Geoffrey Chaucer was “rightly renowned as one of England’s first book-writers”.
- Think you might be rather overestimating the number of people who hate James Corden, buddy. A lot of people loved the car thing
- Sometimes you read a film synopsis, and... no
- This is a good and sensitive piece, and I don't want to disparage it or its writer. But I note that my bugbear comes up here, which is that "male"/"men" is commonly understood to stand for heterosexual men. This happens all the time and it always undermines or subverts the gist of the piece.
- Why is male friendship so difficult? My piece for @thetimes.com Magazine tomorrow www.thetimes.com/article/a391...
- I understand that we hold these guys and their organisation to rather less exacting standards, but still
- God, if I were in the mafia I just wouldn't be able to enjoy it for even a day. Yes, maybe you're the boss for a bit, and you've got some money - but personally I would constantly be afraid that somebody would kill me
- Really didn't expect things to kick off
- STOP SAYING RESTAURANTEUR
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- I appreciate this, and it's certainly defensible, but I do think we have to distinguish between real ships and pretend ships
- Top 20 maybe
- Reposted by Caspar SalmonCan't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
