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
- 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
- Compliment retweet, apols
- Ooh yes, VERY good example
- 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
