Where have they gone? –
The shadows under the eaves?
Dark goodnight
And we who remain sit in
A gentle silence
For, at hand, the twilight.
– Terence Davies, Where have they gone?

It’s been 24 hours and I’m still struggling to find the right words to write what Terence Davies and his movies meant to me. There hasn’t been a death that has hit me so hard in a long time not least because he was talking about working…

Sometimes you get a cold and then you keep getting sick every time you leave the house for more than 10 minutes so you start rereading the Nibelungenlied and the next thing you know you’re a few thousand pages into a deep dive and looking up old norse translations with detailed explanations. Okay maybe this isn’t a universal experience. What I’m trying to say here is I need to go outside before I end up spending the weekend watching the…

Eggers was always somebody whose attention to detail and historical accuracy I admired but whose movies never actually touched me in any way. He definitely wouldn’t have been my choice if somebody had asked me who could make a Dracula movie that I – a known Dracula hater – would actually enjoy but here we are. I do wish he would get over his insistence on using natural light for everything because even seeing Nosferatu under the best conditions there…