#neil brand

[silentlondon]

Booking now: Neil Brand's An Evening with Laurel and Hardy

Excuse me while I push at an open door. Who here would like to see one of the world’s finest silent film experts and accompanists host a show dedicated to the comic brilliance of Laurel and Hardy? Ah, that’s all of you. Well good news, friends, as Neil Brand is taking his An Evening with Laurel and Hardy show on the road across Britain. And I mean across Britain. Brand, his piano, and his…

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The Sound of TV - Episode 1

Documentary series about the music used in television. Neil Brand explores the enduring power of the television theme tune, from Coronation Street to Game of Thrones.

The Sound of TV with Neil Brand Episode 2 - YouTube

The Sound of TV with Neil Brand Episode 3 - YouTube

[pseudowho]

To work out whether or not a man actually respects womens' fundamental human rights, all you have to do is give him power and opportunity, and wait.

[veryintricaterituals]

One detail that I haven't seen people talking about in regards to the new Neil Gaiman article is the fact that he was actively raping a gay woman while filming Good Omens season 2, you know the season with the lesbian story arc! I can't stop thinking about it, as a lesbian myself, I'm speechless: the cognitive dissonance, the hypocrisy, the virtue signaling, what a disgusting piece of shit

[kevindavidday]

gonna start compiling andreil sleeping fanart...one thing this fandom loves is making these boys cuddle and sleep

[orbiterfr]

Small detail that I love in dead poets society that's irrelevant but is important to me:

they're all wearing converses.

[copias-juicebox]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[millportisntreal]

I haven’t Jeanneil posted in a while SOOO imagine Jean and Neil escaping the Nest and learning about pop culture and technology together. Neil gets them an iPod to share and downloads the top 40 songs on iTunes. They go to a movie theater and see Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean (Neil prefers Spider-Man and Jean prefers Pirates). They both feel a weird sort of empathy with Britney Spears shaving her head (don’t they know about being exploited and feeling the need for one thing they can control?). Jean getting into Radiohead and Neil getting into Fall Out Boy. Both of them renting movies from Blockbuster to watch on a shitty tv together

[embracing-the-ineffable]

Ahahaha I had never seen this Good Omens season 1 promo video before but there's a hilarious cameo from Neil Gaiman and I was NOT READY 🤣

The surprise for me was half the fun, so a pic of his cameo is below the cut!

I can't stop laughing 🤣

[graceofgondor]

since a couple of you (@nectarinesinthesun444 @perksofbeingpoet) asked, I figured it was worth posting

my dps ✨️hot takes✨️

disclaimer bc people get mad: these are just my opinions, if you disagree, that's okay!! people are allowed to coexist with different opinions. this is a post for friendly discussion only. please don't start discourse or block me just bc you disagree, I enjoy the fact that we all interpret this media in our own way. thank you.

alot of people flat out don't understand charlie as a character and mischaracterize him as a result. (hint: if you see him as just the funny one you need to watch the movie again)

I dislike movie knox just about as much as book knox. he's still entitled and selfish, and I don't think he deserved redemption. (I simply cannot see him in a fanon lens, I just don't like him)

I do however, wish he was written better. In that his character became all about chris, and less about his friends, which lost his character a bit, because occasionally I do see the potential.

while i like her more... i dislike chris. I obviously feel bad for what happened to her, but she is kind of a shitty friend if you think about it. she was constantly ditching ginny for boys (ergo: why i don't ship them) and quite literally cheated on her boyfriend, who was in fact, her friends brother.

relating to that, chet may be a meathead asshole just in general, but he did absolutely nothing wrong when it came to knox and that is a hill i will DIE on.

oh!! hey!! we shouldn't joke about the paddling scene!! literally ever!!!

the "except sex" line is taken way too far. it's not (canonically) gay. boys joke about sex. let's move on.

relating to that... i don't fault anyone for shipping anything legal—but some ships simply have no evidence in canon. (knarlie, chrisginny) and I'm absolutely terrified to say that... but it's true

in that same vein, many people mistake charlie's disapproval toward knox's methods with chris (especially the phone call scene) as jealousy—when in reality, it's just that—disapproval. this is a bit of an inconsistency issue, because this was much more evident in the book/original script—that charlie tended to push knox around a bit, especially about that, but regardless it's still disdain.

charlie isn't in love with everyone. he's just like that.

also— sexuality headcanons are also obviously fine. but if you say charlie is bi/gay/etc. ONLY (allow me to repeat—ONLY) because of his flamboyant tendencies, that is extremely stereotypical and rubs me so far the wrong way.

its okay to not like cameron for what he did. obviously he's not pure evil, but people are allowed to dislike a character for doing a bad thing. its not okay to be ignorant, but it is, in fact, okay to understand and still dislike a character.

already went over this kind of, but literally every poet (+the girls) gets mischaracterized and/or generalized on a large scale. like, why is half the fandom convinced pitts is braindead? and somehow, todd is incapacitated and has anxiety about everything?? I feel like the movie makes a point to say that these characters are nuanced and multifaceted, and yet they continue to be shoved into one box like two-dimensional high school archetypes.

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[silentlondon]

Shhh… Chichester International Film Festival celebrates the silents

This August, silent film fans in search of a summer holiday should take trip to sunny West Sussex, and the Chichester International Film Festival. The festival is now in its 31st year, and in 2023 Roger Gibson steps down as Artistic Director and Programmer of the festival, a post he has held for many years. It’s no coincidence that there are a few of his favourite films in the programme,…

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Sound of Cinema: The Music that Made the Movies - 1. The Big Score (BBC)

3-part BBC documentary series. Celebrating the art of the cinema soundtrack, Neil Brand explores the work of the great movie composers and demonstrates their techniques. Neil begins by looking at how the classic orchestral film score emerged and why it's still going strong today.

Sound of Cinema: The Music that Made the Movies - 2. Pop Goes the Soundtrack (BBC) - YouTube

Sound of Cinema: The Music that Made the Movies - 3. New Frontiers (BBC) - YouTube

[aledethanlast]

I think if I had to make exactly one change to aftg I would make Neil...not a pyromaniac, but definitely a habitual arsonist. Would it be fucked up for his preferred mode of violence to be his last connection to his mother? Yes. But imagine how funny these books would be if Neil had to constantly argue himself out of burning Evermore down and running for the hills before anyone can stop him.

[toddtakefive]

breaking my silence: i think a lot of anderperry angst mischaracterizes them so badly it’s impossible to take seriously or enjoy. neil in particular is almost always made into some raging asshole for… some reason? and it makes him so unrecognizable it’s almost insulting to his character

[berryberrytaeberry]

SAD BOI NEIL JOSTEN EDIT IS FINALLY HERE!