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Dave McAllister
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Film enthusiast. My reviews at www.davefilmblog.com
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Thanks for the reference. I agree, it’s hardly Bergman’s finest work, a curio really.
At 90 years old, Peter Watkins death yesterday was hardly unexpected but it’s still sad that such an astonishing and bold film maker is still on the margins in our culture. His intelligent, often challenging and innovative films are unique. Here’s an obit: www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Andrew an interesting critic with a deep knowledge of horror so this should be good.
Do you like WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR? 👀
How about BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW? 👀
Do you like a horror of stillness, dissociation and dread, like the worst trip you’ve ever had? Hurrah! come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social in London on September 30th (payday!) and gaze into the abyss with us. 😱
Shoegaze Horror: Bad Vibes, Liminal Loops and Deadly Dissociation (London) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Enter the dreamlike, destabilising world of Shoegaze Horror, where cinema trades story for sensation and transforms atmosphere into dread.
miskatonicinstitute.com
A thrill to meet Alex Cox and Nick Freand Jones after an event discussing Moviedrome, the BBC film programming that turned me on to the weird and wonderful in cinema. I even found my old Moviedrome booklets and got them signed!
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead at the Royal Albert Hall complete with London Philharmonic Orchestra was brilliant. Lots of tie dyes in the audience. The only performance in Europe.
Here’s hoping this year’s Grateful Dead Meet Up At The Movies returns to the UK. Picturehouse did a great job hosting the last two. You can sign up for updates here: www.meetupatthemovies.com
The Grateful Dead Movie
Sign up for more information on the official website. For a limited time only in theaters & IMAX® August 14
www.meetupatthemovies.com
David Cronenberg’s THE SHROUDS is surprisingly effective as both a personal meditation on grief and also an almost absurdist comedy. Like the best of speculative sci fi, it’s a reflection of contemporary concerns, and is very much a film about ideas.
This nugget says a lot: “in keeping with its idiosyncratic way of operating, they’ve had to call in a ghost hunter to investigate the source of a mystery flood that has been blighting the building. It turns out that the cinema is home to numerous ghosts, but none are responsible for water damage.”
A brilliant day at bfi Film On Film festival today, well worth hiding from the sunshine! Preminger’s ADVISE & CONSENT, Iranian film A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE, Hitchcock’s 1934 version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH and Georgian film PIROSMANI. More tomorrow.
A Sunday afternoon treat at the Garden Cinema. My DVD of the wonderful Fishing with John has never been able to play the first Dennis Hopper episode. Eventually I got to see it! Next in this double bill is the UK premiere of a mythical doc called Tarpon.
As a violin player, I'd ask you please consider signing the petition to save Newark musical instrument school, the last string instrument making school in the UK. It's not just about making new instruments, it's about having skilled people who can do repairs. www.change.org/p/save-the-n...
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M: Julien. I'm Marie
J: Marie?
M: Marie, the one you loved.
J: I doubt it, Mademoiselle. You're not at all my type
M: That's what you think. Give me a little time.

Many thanks to the ICA staff who did live English subtitle matching throughout. Final two Rivette films in the season this weekend.
For those who need translation of the last scene when the subtitle projector packed in at the ICA's rare screening of Jacques Rivette's HISTOIRE OF MARIE ET JULIEN:
Julien: What time is it
Marie: Pretty early
J: I mean … what are you doing here, who are you? How did you enter?
(cont...)
I don’t think he always chose the films but he always had something gleefully interesting to say about them.
The BFI have announced a Moviedrome season starting July!!!!
As a teen, I religiously tuned in every Sunday night to watch these weird, cult movies introduced by Alex Cox.
Now I’ll see them on the big screen with Cox and producer Nick Freand Jones introducing!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Moviedrome: Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen | BFI Southbank
whatson.bfi.org.uk
UK premiere of David Cronenberg's THE SHROUDS!! This is now on sale to Members (any remaining tickets on sale to public tomorrow lunchtime). I know it's had mixed reviews, but I can't wait.
Another BLEAK WEEK addition.

David Cronenberg's THE SHROUDS.

Monday 16th June.

Tickets on sale next week.
For the next six days you can watch Bi Gan’s debut film KAILI BLUES for free at Le Cinema Club. His latest film RESURRECTION will debut shortly at Cannes. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
Le Cinéma Club | KAILI BLUES
A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.
www.lecinemaclub.com
An astonishing final show. A delicate shimmering first set ebbing and flowing beautifully finishing with a touch of darkness. Then what a final set, epic, intense and with such energy. This has been a brilliant residency. Thanks @cafeotodalston.bsky.social and The Necks!