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
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Magic, madness, metempsychosis: David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) "mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown". Screens 5.30pm today at NFT1, BFI Southbank. projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...
INLAND EMPIRE (2006) - Projected Figures
David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE a self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness, mesmerising in its overlapping Tinseltown stories
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January 18, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Magic, madness, metempsychosis: David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) "mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown". Screens 5.30pm today at NFT1, BFI Southbank. projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...
Writing wrongs: Alexandra Spieth’s metafictive slasher I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU DIE (2026) "has a blocked, lovesick writer seeking the perfect ending for his final girl(friend)". World première was last night at @danceswithfilms.bsky.social NYC
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I Know Exactly How You Die (2026) - Projected Figures
In Alexandra Spieth’s metafictive I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU DIE, a blocked, lovesick writer seeks the perfect ending for a final girl(friend)
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January 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Writing wrongs: Alexandra Spieth’s metafictive slasher I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU DIE (2026) "has a blocked, lovesick writer seeking the perfect ending for his final girl(friend)". World première was last night at @danceswithfilms.bsky.social NYC
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Is he dead yet?
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Is he dead yet?
Used judiciously and sparingly, Trump's tariffs might have been an effective tool, but thrown out scattergun whenever the Dear Leader's feelings are hurt just makes America look like an unreliable business partner, and the world will just seek trade elsewhere. America is isolating herself.
January 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Used judiciously and sparingly, Trump's tariffs might have been an effective tool, but thrown out scattergun whenever the Dear Leader's feelings are hurt just makes America look like an unreliable business partner, and the world will just seek trade elsewhere. America is isolating herself.
stop buying American
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
stop buying American
"imports and builds from the horrific trappings of Suspiria in order to portray a timeless intergenerational clash": Daniel Lerch's feature debut SATURNALIA (2025) screens 9.45pm tonight at Dances With Films NYC. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social. dmovies.org/2025/06/20/s...
Saturnalia - DMovies
First-time American director imports and builds from the horrific trappings of Suspiria in order to portray a timeless intergenerational clash - world premiere takes place at Raindance
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January 17, 2026 at 9:12 AM
"imports and builds from the horrific trappings of Suspiria in order to portray a timeless intergenerational clash": Daniel Lerch's feature debut SATURNALIA (2025) screens 9.45pm tonight at Dances With Films NYC. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social. dmovies.org/2025/06/20/s...
"confounds psychological and supernatural in the shadows of an abandoned hospital": Nicholas Pineda’s found-footage debut feature INFIRMARY (2026) had its world première last night at @danceswithfilms.bsky.social NYC.
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Infirmary (2026) - Projected Figures
Nicholas Pineda’s found-footage debut feature INFIRMARY confounds psychological and supernatural in the shadows of an abandoned hospital
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January 17, 2026 at 9:08 AM
"confounds psychological and supernatural in the shadows of an abandoned hospital": Nicholas Pineda’s found-footage debut feature INFIRMARY (2026) had its world première last night at @danceswithfilms.bsky.social NYC.
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Ben Wheatley returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with an experimental sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.
@antbit.projectedfigures.com reviews BULK, now touring screens across the UK. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@antbit.projectedfigures.com reviews BULK, now touring screens across the UK. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Bulk review: Ben Wheatley’s mercurial multiverse
The British director returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Ben Wheatley returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with an experimental sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.
@antbit.projectedfigures.com reviews BULK, now touring screens across the UK. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@antbit.projectedfigures.com reviews BULK, now touring screens across the UK. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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It has been a year now since David Lynch passed. Here is the obituary that I wrote at the time. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/16/d...
David Lynch (1946-2025) - Projected Figures
Obituary for David Lynch (1946-2025) - director and disturber, musician and mannerist, artist, unsettler and ant wrangler
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January 16, 2026 at 10:08 AM
It has been a year now since David Lynch passed. Here is the obituary that I wrote at the time. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/16/d...
Creatures of the...: @ryanprows.bsky.social's criss-crossing genre-switching cops-and-gangs caper NIGHT PATROL (2025) "shows LA and America falling prey to white supremacy and monstrous patriarchy". In US cinemas from today. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/14/n...
Night Patrol (2025) - Projected Figures
Ryan Prows’ criss-crossing cops-and-gangs caper NIGHT PATROL shows LA and America falling prey to white supremacy and monstrous patriarchy
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January 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Creatures of the...: @ryanprows.bsky.social's criss-crossing genre-switching cops-and-gangs caper NIGHT PATROL (2025) "shows LA and America falling prey to white supremacy and monstrous patriarchy". In US cinemas from today. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/14/n...
Hammer time: Park Chan-wook's OLDBOY (2004) is "a tour-de-force of vibrant filmmaking from start to finish, manipulating the viewer like a master hypnotist, before revealing its final, awful dilemma."
Screens 10.50pm tonight at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2013/12/03/o...
Screens 10.50pm tonight at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2013/12/03/o...
OldBoy (2004) - Projected Figures
Park Chan-wook's mesmerising revenger's tragicomedy OLDBOY shows just how far-reaching the tentacles of mad vengeance can be.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Hammer time: Park Chan-wook's OLDBOY (2004) is "a tour-de-force of vibrant filmmaking from start to finish, manipulating the viewer like a master hypnotist, before revealing its final, awful dilemma."
Screens 10.50pm tonight at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2013/12/03/o...
Screens 10.50pm tonight at BFI IMAX. projectedfigures.com/2013/12/03/o...
"a whole universe of untold depths and hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated": David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD (1977) screens 6.10pm tonight at NFT 2, BFI Southbank. Freakish cinematic perfection. projectedfigures.com/2015/03/14/e...
Eraserhead (1977) - Projected Figures
unwrap this baby and discover untold depths & hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated. Eraserhead is freakish perfection.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:26 AM
"a whole universe of untold depths and hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated": David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD (1977) screens 6.10pm tonight at NFT 2, BFI Southbank. Freakish cinematic perfection. projectedfigures.com/2015/03/14/e...
"a land... in transition and a soul in transmigration": Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s languorous, Palme d'Or-winning psychodrama UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010) is on MUBI UK & Ireland from today. My old capsule: projectedfigures.com/2026/01/16/u...
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Projected Figures
In Apichatpong Weerasethakul's languorous UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, a land is in transition and a soul in transmigration
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January 16, 2026 at 8:15 AM
"a land... in transition and a soul in transmigration": Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s languorous, Palme d'Or-winning psychodrama UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010) is on MUBI UK & Ireland from today. My old capsule: projectedfigures.com/2026/01/16/u...
“I don’t give a fuck about your war, or your President”: John Carpenter's dystopian action SF blaxploitation oater ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) turns its back on America's corrupted, fascist future. On @studiocanal.co.uk Presents from today. projectedfigures.com/2019/04/14/e...
Escape From New York (1981) - Projected Figures
John Carpenter's post-Watergate, pre-9/11 ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK offers bleak futurism while looking ruefully back to values from an older American playlist
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January 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM
“I don’t give a fuck about your war, or your President”: John Carpenter's dystopian action SF blaxploitation oater ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) turns its back on America's corrupted, fascist future. On @studiocanal.co.uk Presents from today. projectedfigures.com/2019/04/14/e...
(Un)sympathetic magic: Kenichi Ugana’s satirical J-horror THE CURSE (2025) "updates familiar possession tropes to the online age of the smart phone". In Japanese theatres from today. projectedfigures.com/2025/09/19/t...
The Curse (2025) - Projected Figures
(Un)sympathetic magic: Kenichi Ugana's satirical J-horror THE CURSE updates familiar possession tropes to the online age of the smart phone
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January 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
(Un)sympathetic magic: Kenichi Ugana’s satirical J-horror THE CURSE (2025) "updates familiar possession tropes to the online age of the smart phone". In Japanese theatres from today. projectedfigures.com/2025/09/19/t...
When regimes deliberately murder their own youth, they no longer have a future.
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 AM
When regimes deliberately murder their own youth, they no longer have a future.
Trump now has in his possession a Nobel Peace Prize that he categorically did not earn and that is only in the most narrow of technical senses 'his', and looks an idiot.
Machado gave up her Nobel Peace Prize, and looks an idiot.
Machado gave up her Nobel Peace Prize, and looks an idiot.
January 16, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Trump now has in his possession a Nobel Peace Prize that he categorically did not earn and that is only in the most narrow of technical senses 'his', and looks an idiot.
Machado gave up her Nobel Peace Prize, and looks an idiot.
Machado gave up her Nobel Peace Prize, and looks an idiot.
Is he dead yet?
January 16, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Is he dead yet?
Given the proximity of a world war, I just want everybody to know that I love you all, and it won't be personal when the killing starts.
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Given the proximity of a world war, I just want everybody to know that I love you all, and it won't be personal when the killing starts.
"lets Hitchcock’s many mediated personae guide us through modernity’s reduplicating anxieties": Johan Grimonprez’s film essay DOUBLE TAKE (2009). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/15/d...
Double Take (2009) - Projected Figures
Johan Grimonprez's film essay DOUBLE TAKE lets Hitchcock's many mediated personae guide us through modernity's reduplicating anxieties
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January 15, 2026 at 7:50 AM
"lets Hitchcock’s many mediated personae guide us through modernity’s reduplicating anxieties": Johan Grimonprez’s film essay DOUBLE TAKE (2009). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/15/d...
"a young boy and his family sleepwalking through turbulent Titoist reform in Yugoslavia": Emir Kusturica’s tragicomic coming-of-age national allegory WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS (Otac na sluzbenom putu, 1985). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/15/w...
When Father Was Away on Business (1985) - Projected Figures
Emir Kusturica's WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS shows a young boy and his family sleepwalking through Titoist reforms in Yugoslavia.
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January 15, 2026 at 7:24 AM
"a young boy and his family sleepwalking through turbulent Titoist reform in Yugoslavia": Emir Kusturica’s tragicomic coming-of-age national allegory WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS (Otac na sluzbenom putu, 1985). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/15/w...
Reposted by Anton Bitel
Reposted by Anton Bitel
