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.
ProjectedFigures.com
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
Tallinn graffito
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Tallinn graffito
"as this monochrome film shows two men boldly if vainly resisting tyranny, actions and words are seen as recto and verso from the same manuscript of history": Lee Joon-ik's Occupation-era DONGJU (2016) screens 11.45am, BFI Southbank for London Korean Film Fest projectedfigures.com/2017/10/08/l...
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"as this monochrome film shows two men boldly if vainly resisting tyranny, actions and words are seen as recto and verso from the same manuscript of history": Lee Joon-ik's Occupation-era DONGJU (2016) screens 11.45am, BFI Southbank for London Korean Film Fest projectedfigures.com/2017/10/08/l...
"an exhilarating, exhausting tribute to Verhoeven’s infectious movie-making mania": Eastwood Allen & Christopher Griffiths' ROBODOC: THE CREATION OF ROBOCOP (2023) is on @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Can) from today projectedfigures.com/2024/12/22/s...
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"an exhilarating, exhausting tribute to Verhoeven’s infectious movie-making mania": Eastwood Allen & Christopher Griffiths' ROBODOC: THE CREATION OF ROBOCOP (2023) is on @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Can) from today projectedfigures.com/2024/12/22/s...
Korean cruising: with a protagonist who is both Northern defector and gay, Park Joon-ho's intersectional feature debut 3670 (2025) simultaneously celebrates coming out and fitting in. Screens 8.30pm tonight at BFI Southbank for the London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/3670/
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Korean cruising: with a protagonist who is both Northern defector and gay, Park Joon-ho's intersectional feature debut 3670 (2025) simultaneously celebrates coming out and fitting in. Screens 8.30pm tonight at BFI Southbank for the London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/3670/
"a baroque melodrama about more than one broken family," Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s restorative LA MADRE MUERTA (THE DEAD MOTHER, 1993) is "classically crafted and at times near Hitchcockian in its suspense". Screens 7pm today at the Aaaargh Retro Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2024/12/15/s...
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"a baroque melodrama about more than one broken family," Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s restorative LA MADRE MUERTA (THE DEAD MOTHER, 1993) is "classically crafted and at times near Hitchcockian in its suspense". Screens 7pm today at the Aaaargh Retro Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2024/12/15/s...
Honoured to have contributed a video essay ("Internal Anguish and Images of Womanhood") to this Limited Edition Blu-ray of Michelle Garza Cervera's HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN (2022), coming 26 Jan 2026, via @arrowvideo.bsky.social. Kat Ellinger and @kathughes.bsky.social are on it too!
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Honoured to have contributed a video essay ("Internal Anguish and Images of Womanhood") to this Limited Edition Blu-ray of Michelle Garza Cervera's HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN (2022), coming 26 Jan 2026, via @arrowvideo.bsky.social. Kat Ellinger and @kathughes.bsky.social are on it too!
"a tragedy of buried identities and lived lies": Jane Schoenbrun's queer horror fantasy I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) screens 8.45pm at the @princecharlescinema.com www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"a tragedy of buried identities and lived lies": Jane Schoenbrun's queer horror fantasy I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) screens 8.45pm at the @princecharlescinema.com www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
"overflows with Beckettian absurdity, as these men, perhaps liars (and literal gaslighters), look, while waiting for ‘relief’, into the abyss of both their elemental isolation and infernal companionship": THE LIGHTHOUSE, 8.30pm at @princecharlescinema.com projectedfigures.com/2024/06/23/s...
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"overflows with Beckettian absurdity, as these men, perhaps liars (and literal gaslighters), look, while waiting for ‘relief’, into the abyss of both their elemental isolation and infernal companionship": THE LIGHTHOUSE, 8.30pm at @princecharlescinema.com projectedfigures.com/2024/06/23/s...
In this economy, what?
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
In this economy, what?
In a late-night rant on TruthSocial, Trump may, hilariously, have complained about this photograph's unflattering if honest presentation of his combover - but there is another detail in the framing of his face that I like even more...
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In a late-night rant on TruthSocial, Trump may, hilariously, have complained about this photograph's unflattering if honest presentation of his combover - but there is another detail in the framing of his face that I like even more...
"an ageing assassin struggling to determine how she wants to go out": Min Kyu-dong’s vigilante action thriller THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE (2025) screens 3.15pm today at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/13/t...
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"an ageing assassin struggling to determine how she wants to go out": Min Kyu-dong’s vigilante action thriller THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE (2025) screens 3.15pm today at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/13/t...
"All at once nightmarish cannibal horror and romantic comedy, good-natured fairytale, and hyper-stylised allegory of French wartime collaboration and resistance": Caro & Jeunet's DELICATESSEN (1991) screens 10.15am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"All at once nightmarish cannibal horror and romantic comedy, good-natured fairytale, and hyper-stylised allegory of French wartime collaboration and resistance": Caro & Jeunet's DELICATESSEN (1991) screens 10.15am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social
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FRANKENSTEIN Q&A
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
FRANKENSTEIN Q&A
Cartoon by Leigh Rubin. (h/t Paolo Soares on Face***k)
October 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Cartoon by Leigh Rubin. (h/t Paolo Soares on Face***k)
"Part fraught, food-focused domestic drama, part folk horror": see @peterhengl.bsky.social's FAMILY DINNER (2022) "building its sense of dread from the outset but only gradually putting all the pieces on the table." On @arrowplayer.bsky.social from today projectedfigures.com/2022/09/01/b...
October 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
"Part fraught, food-focused domestic drama, part folk horror": see @peterhengl.bsky.social's FAMILY DINNER (2022) "building its sense of dread from the outset but only gradually putting all the pieces on the table." On @arrowplayer.bsky.social from today projectedfigures.com/2022/09/01/b...
"Rupert Russell’s documentary shows true crime intersecting with folk horror in a real yet mythic space of British (agri)culture": THE LAST SACRIFICE (2024) is coming to various UK venues around Halloween via @anti-worlds.bsky.social
Review: projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/t...
Review: projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/t...
October 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Rupert Russell’s documentary shows true crime intersecting with folk horror in a real yet mythic space of British (agri)culture": THE LAST SACRIFICE (2024) is coming to various UK venues around Halloween via @anti-worlds.bsky.social
Review: projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/t...
Review: projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/t...
"I cannot act in your world": Anthony Hickox's HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH (1992) "goes through the mythic motions". On Tubi UK from today projectedfigures.com/2024/12/16/s...
October 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"I cannot act in your world": Anthony Hickox's HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH (1992) "goes through the mythic motions". On Tubi UK from today projectedfigures.com/2024/12/16/s...
Face in the trees. It's Dani's sister. You can even see the hose pipe in her mouth.
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Face in the trees. It's Dani's sister. You can even see the hose pipe in her mouth.
shamelessly stolen from Face***k
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
shamelessly stolen from Face***k
So who was raptured?
September 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
So who was raptured?
NYT thinks it is
September 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
NYT thinks it is
Trump uses the Royal Visit to announce his wife's involvement in the SPY VS. SPY relaunch
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump uses the Royal Visit to announce his wife's involvement in the SPY VS. SPY relaunch
September 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM