The J4MB Files #629: Greg Ellis, Hollywood actor, interview w/ Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson (ICMI21)

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New shock poll puts Reform as BIGGEST party in Wales and at 21% nationwide in latest blow to Labour and Conservatives

Excellent. Video interview of Nigel Farage included (6:42). The start of the article:

“Reform polled higher than any other party in Wales this weekend, latest research from Opinium has shown.

The respected pollsters found Nigel Farage’s party to be polling 28 per cent in Wales, larger than Labour’s 26 per cent and the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on 13 per cent each.”

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Film festival fiasco as director Marek Żydowicz laments ‘mediocre’ work by women (quite rightly)

Interesting (Times, £). An extract from Screen Daily, Backlash to Camerimage director’s “misogynistic” op-ed on women in cinematography:

“There has been industry backlash [J4MB translation: Feminist harpies (I repeat myself) have been screeching again] to Camerimage director Marek Żydowicz’s op-ed in Cinematography World, which the British Society of Cinematographers has described as ”misogynistic” and “aggressive” in tone.

Ahead of the 2024 Camerimage film festival, which runs November 16-23, Żydowicz wrote an op-ed for Cinematography World which outlined his view on how the industry is changing and how film festivals can react to this. The magazine has released a statement explaining that the views of the piece are the author’s own, and not endorsed by it, and Żydowicz has apologised for the “misunderstanding”. [J4MB emphasis: Rookie mistake. No misunderstanding, no need to apologise.]

In the article, Żydowicz writes about the growing number of women cinematographers and directors, and comments: “Can we sacrifice works and artists with outstanding artistic achievements solely to make room for mediocre productions?”.”

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The J4MB Files #628: Lori DeBolt & Melissa McFadden interview w/ Chris Votey, Vernon Meigs (ICMI21)

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Sisters Jean (54) and Sara Barnbrook (51), Leeds Girl Guides leaders, swindled £480,000 of public money

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“It seems the Girl Guides, bastion of feminism, is not so sugar and spice. Funny how an actual custodial sentence gets given when HMRC is defrauded, but not when the fairer sex “glassed” a guy or beat up another with her shoe (a couple of the suspended sentences cases in the chronicle of soft justice for women listed on this site). And of course the excuses – oh so predictable – supposed “coercive control” from a past partner and “PTSD” because of course they couldn’t simply be greedy for money, the fairer sex. Again would an article about hundreds of thousands taken in fraud call them “sneaky pair” had it been two middle aged men who’d taken close to £500,000 to have a great lifestyle?”

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