Anton Bitel
@antbit.projectedfigures.com
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
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The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
"a tale of two sisters fragilely reunited by grief in a liminal, littoral zone": Patricio Valladares’ slow-burning folk horror WHAT THE TIDE DRAGGED IN (Lo Que Trajo La Marea, 2025) streams from 6pm today for @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social's (So)Home Edition. projectedfigures.com/2025/09/02/w...
What The Tide Dragged In (Lo Que Trajo La Marea) (2025) - Projected Figures
Patricio Valladares' slow-burning folk horror WHAT THE TIDE DRAGGED IN is a tale of two sisters reunited by grief in a liminal, littoral zone
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November 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"a tale of two sisters fragilely reunited by grief in a liminal, littoral zone": Patricio Valladares’ slow-burning folk horror WHAT THE TIDE DRAGGED IN (Lo Que Trajo La Marea, 2025) streams from 6pm today for @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social's (So)Home Edition. projectedfigures.com/2025/09/02/w...
Suffering for art: truly honoured to have contributed a booklet essay to this Limited Edition of Pupi Avati's THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976), available from Monday in the US on 4K UHD or Blu-ray via @arrowvideo.bsky.social. www.arrowvideo.com/p/blu-ray/th...
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Suffering for art: truly honoured to have contributed a booklet essay to this Limited Edition of Pupi Avati's THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976), available from Monday in the US on 4K UHD or Blu-ray via @arrowvideo.bsky.social. www.arrowvideo.com/p/blu-ray/th...
"invites the viewer to join its needy protagonist in staring into the abyss and conjuring the monster within": @stefanmacdonald.bsky.social’s monochrome marvel HEAD LIKE A HOLE (2024) screens from 4pm today for @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social's (So)Home Edition projectedfigures.com/2025/04/03/h...
Head Like a Hole (2024) - Projected Figures
Stefan MacDonald-Labelle's monochrome marvel HEAD LIKE A HOLE invites the viewer to join its needy protagonist in staring into the abyss
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November 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"invites the viewer to join its needy protagonist in staring into the abyss and conjuring the monster within": @stefanmacdonald.bsky.social’s monochrome marvel HEAD LIKE A HOLE (2024) screens from 4pm today for @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social's (So)Home Edition projectedfigures.com/2025/04/03/h...
One day, someone will create a perfect, objectively true film list, and nobody will notice. This may well already have happened.
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
One day, someone will create a perfect, objectively true film list, and nobody will notice. This may well already have happened.
From a non-American, vegetarian ingrate constitutionally incapable of happiness: Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
From a non-American, vegetarian ingrate constitutionally incapable of happiness: Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
That sinking feeling: Matt Stuertz’s metacinematic psychodrama HUMAN (2025) is “a long dark night of the soul that will make you 😂, 🤮 and 😮”. Screens online from 9pm tonight for @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social's Home Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/08/22/h...
Human (2025) - Projected Figures
That sinking feeling: Matt Stuertz’s metacinematic psychodrama HUMAN is a long dark night of the soul that will make you 😂, 🤮 and 😮.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
That sinking feeling: Matt Stuertz’s metacinematic psychodrama HUMAN (2025) is “a long dark night of the soul that will make you 😂, 🤮 and 😮”. Screens online from 9pm tonight for @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social's Home Festival. projectedfigures.com/2025/08/22/h...
FOUR PROGRAMME NOTES FOR THE LONDON KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025, includes capsules of: Frosted Window, The Land of Morning Calm, 3670 and Time To Be Strong projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/f...
Four programme notes for the London Korean Film Festival 2025 - Projected Figures
Four programme notes for the London Korean Film Festival 2025: Frosted Window, The Land of Morning Calm, 3670, Time To Be Strong
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
FOUR PROGRAMME NOTES FOR THE LONDON KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025, includes capsules of: Frosted Window, The Land of Morning Calm, 3670 and Time To Be Strong projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/f...
Given how often they shadow-ban or block me for simply posting reviews, I am always kinda pleased when Face***k goes down.
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Given how often they shadow-ban or block me for simply posting reviews, I am always kinda pleased when Face***k goes down.
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Just wrote "slippery soap" when I had meant to write "slipper slope". Tempted to leave it as is...
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Just wrote "slippery soap" when I had meant to write "slipper slope". Tempted to leave it as is...
no worlds without words
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
no worlds without words
TRUMP + PUTIN = TURNIP
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
TRUMP + PUTIN = TURNIP
"society as a sinking ship, and revolution as a mere rearranging of the deckchairs": Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque seaborne satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022) is back in @curzon.com Cinemas today. projectedfigures.com/2023/12/20/t...
Triangle of Sadness (2022) - Projected Figures
Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, society is a shipwreck, and revolution a mere rearranging of the deckchairs
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November 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"society as a sinking ship, and revolution as a mere rearranging of the deckchairs": Ruben Östlund’s broad, grotesque seaborne satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022) is back in @curzon.com Cinemas today. projectedfigures.com/2023/12/20/t...
Face business, falling down: George A. Romero’s dark, violent satire BRUISER (2000) "asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id". Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from @filmsradiance.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/b...
Bruiser (2000) - Projected Figures
Face business, falling down: George A. Romero's dark, violent satire BRUISER asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id
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November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Face business, falling down: George A. Romero’s dark, violent satire BRUISER (2000) "asks what happens when we don the blank mask of our own id". Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from @filmsradiance.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/26/b...
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As today is the (55th) anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s death, my son has proposed that we watch the Paul Schrader biopic this evening. This is why I love my son.
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
As today is the (55th) anniversary of Yukio Mishima’s death, my son has proposed that we watch the Paul Schrader biopic this evening. This is why I love my son.
today I am writing like there’s no tomorrow
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
today I am writing like there’s no tomorrow
"pits an alienated, increasingly injured teenager against an Alpine alien conspiracy": Tilman Singer’s in every sense loopy horror CUCKOO (2024) lives up to its name. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/25/c...
Cuckoo (2024) - Projected Figures
Tilman Singer's in every sense loopy horror CUCKOO pits an alienated, increasingly injured teenager against an Alpine alien conspiracy
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November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"pits an alienated, increasingly injured teenager against an Alpine alien conspiracy": Tilman Singer’s in every sense loopy horror CUCKOO (2024) lives up to its name. projectedfigures.com/2025/11/25/c...
nothing sinister without sister
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
nothing sinister without sister
I've seen the future, and it is old
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I've seen the future, and it is old
"dances a life backwards to the beginning (of the end)": Mike Flanagan’s bittersweetly apocalyptic Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025) is on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD via @studiocanal.co.uk. Short review here: projectedfigures.com/2025/11/24/t...
The Life of Chuck (2025) - Projected Figures
Mike Flanagan's bittersweetly apocalyptic Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK dances a life backwards to the beginning (of the end)
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November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"dances a life backwards to the beginning (of the end)": Mike Flanagan’s bittersweetly apocalyptic Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025) is on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD via @studiocanal.co.uk. Short review here: projectedfigures.com/2025/11/24/t...
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The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
No windswept unless winds wept
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
No windswept unless winds wept
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I'm looking for people who love murder mysteries and whodunnits. It's for a thing! Can you connect us? Thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm looking for people who love murder mysteries and whodunnits. It's for a thing! Can you connect us? Thank you.
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". On UK/Irish digi channels from today via Blue Finch Film Releasing. Astonishing. projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
A Desert (2024) - Projected Figures
Joshua Erkman's metacinematic feature debut A DESERT is an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths
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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". On UK/Irish digi channels from today via Blue Finch Film Releasing. Astonishing. projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...