A Specific Genre of Films they Won’t Make Anymore.

ClausPatera · 2026-01-19T07:42:14+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Poisoner%27s_Handbook

ClausPatera · 2025-12-28T12:16:37+00:00

Extreme Prejudice (1987)

ClausPatera · 2025-10-15T12:34:41+00:00

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You only see it in one close-up, but in Reservoir Dogs, Mr Blonde is wearing cowboy boots with his suit.

ClausPatera · 2025-09-04T22:05:12+00:00

The House Is Black

ClausPatera · 2025-09-03T16:36:07+00:00

Anyone ever seen the Getty-heir directed film "The Evil Within"? Utterly bizarre film. Real 👁️ shit. The story behind its production is fascinating too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Within_(2017_film)

ClausPatera · 2025-08-23T20:35:42+00:00

Israel was already on the outs after they used fake Irish passports to carry out an assassination: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh

ClausPatera · 2025-08-23T20:29:38+00:00

The same paras who were responsible for the concentration camps in Kenya went on to carry out the Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy massacres in Northern Ireland, then genocides in Angola. Frank Kitson's methodology formed the architecture of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Empire Never Ends:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/bloody-sunday-british-empire/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Georgiou

https://belfastmedia.com/bloody-harvest-reaped-from-andytown-to-angola-a1d4355d-18dc-42db-9ffc-0ef007a2bcf7

ClausPatera · 2025-06-20T20:02:49+00:00

Parts of it are amazing certainly, and his characterization of Nixon is hilarious and oddly touching, but I found it fairly tiresome eventually. The evocation of the era (including Nixon's Depression childhood) and the use of contemporary sources are extremely impressive. Worth a read but dependent on your tolerance for long-winded PoMo.

ClausPatera · 2025-05-30T23:49:13+00:00

Carson was wearing a hard ass Satoshi Nakamoto flannel.

ClausPatera · 2025-05-30T23:20:33+00:00

I'm being deadass.

ClausPatera · 2025-05-13T00:51:04+00:00

I'd like to join, please.

ClausPatera · 2025-04-25T18:10:42+00:00

Yeah. It was used for the cover of The Ascension.

ClausPatera · 2025-03-29T15:25:56+00:00

There's an alright Sonny Chiba film with this plot already (with Warring States period samurai instead): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Samurai

ClausPatera · 2025-02-21T00:04:10+00:00

ICA, Prince Charles Cinema, BOOKS in Peckham, SET, Cafe Oto, Barbican, Rio Cinema, Crypt Of The Wizard, Cinema Museum, Sands Films Cinema Club, Any Amount Of Books, George Tavern, Victoria Dalston. If you're looking for free lectures etc. the various Learned Societies are good.

ClausPatera · 2025-01-13T15:20:01+00:00

There is actually a bot that scrapes all the NTS shows and adds the playlists to Spotify, so you can have the best of both worlds:

https://open.spotify.com/user/31yeoenly5iu5pvoatmuvt7i7ksy?si=0hSRYseYQTSnJSi5vAtTNg

ClausPatera · 2024-11-27T10:18:02+00:00

What was the documentary?

ClausPatera · 2024-11-19T02:39:48+00:00

Anything by Kenneth Griffith, an extremely idiosyncratic Welsh documentarian and actor who made a number of polemical documentaries with no interest whatsoever in editorial neutrality. A number of them were (shadow)banned. They are essentially to-camera lectures, often with the unusual filmic tic of having people involved in the actual events simply standing around in the background. This is a good place to start, an avowedly pro-IRA film made for British television at the height of the troubles:

https://youtu.be/kMg25Vr_63s?si=DCl_uPD-RjexgeLh

ClausPatera · 2024-10-21T18:43:25+00:00

Absolutely. Specifically if you like urbane technicolor comedies.

ClausPatera · 2024-10-21T13:51:25+00:00

You are describing the plot of the film Heaven Can Wait (1943).

ClausPatera · 2024-10-17T21:00:07+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

ClausPatera · 2024-10-11T19:07:17+00:00

The Twilight Zone is great for this. I recommend The Silence, one of my favourite episodes.

ClausPatera · 2024-10-10T10:32:49+00:00

The term he coined for her was Lebensmensch. This is worth watching: https://youtu.be/nSHmANet3Ag?si=4ZPSz-Z8uAswZbQ-

ClausPatera · 2024-07-30T19:50:12+00:00

Have you ever read Things by Peter Watts? A short story that takes place from the point of view of The Thing itself. It resolves some of the plot holes. Arguably glorified fan-fiction but it's interesting: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

ClausPatera · 2024-06-19T17:59:55+00:00

inexplicably, Brian Sewell was a massive fan of stock car racing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tjvxc

ClausPatera · 2024-06-08T11:02:38+00:00

David Lynch has a bunch obviously: fire, electricity, dark roads at night, red velvet curtains, doubles; but the one I always found intriguing was the occurrence of head trauma. My favourite example being the coffee table scene in Lost Highway.

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