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Tim Pelan

@johnneyred.bsky.social

Have written a few film essays, including for BFI's Get Carter and Imprint's The Keep. Hendrix fan, husband and father, live in N.I My red scarf matches my eyes. https://cinephiliabeyond.org/tag/tim-pela

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Forget it, Stanley, it's Chinatown In praise of Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon

For those that might not have Seen it, my latest Substack newsletter is live and gives some - in my opinion - much deserved love to Michael Cimino's YEAR OF THE DRAGON (1985). Free to ready at the link below.

andrewnette.substack.com/p/forget-it-...

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Australian Gothic: Peter Weir’s β€˜Picnic at Hanging Rock’ at 50 β€’ Cinephilia & Beyond Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) is arguably the film that put that country on the world cinematic map.

For #ValentinesDay my piece on Picnic At Hanging Rock.

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β€˜Horror Implied, as Opposed to Explained… That’s Michael Mann’s Strength (Will)β€™β€”β€˜Manhunter’ β€’ Cinephilia & Beyond Manhunter poster by Thomas Walker By Tim Pelan In 1986, Michael Mann’s Manhunter elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful, stylised, forensically psychological level, introducing the concept of a seria...

cinephiliabeyond.org/manhunter/

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As mentioned in my piece on the film!

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No Avon and Anna Grant, or Vila and Kerril?

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"Are you frightened?"

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Love watching the Skeleton with the surround sound up, really immersive left and right bounce back and forth sliding around the course.

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How utterly embarrassing.

It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.

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Judge Dredd Animation (2019)
YouTube video by gort hyman Judge Dredd Animation (2019)

Was reminded of this recently. Phenomenal

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Thanks!

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Married to the Enemy: The Pathological Obsession Beneath Michael Cimino’s β€˜Year of the Dragon’ β€’ Cinephilia & Beyond By Tim Pelan No-one does excess quite like Michael Cimino, director of Heaven’s Gate and The Deer Hunter. And when you factor in a co-writing credit by Oliver Stone and a heyday bruising performance b...

My own take @pulpcurry.bsky.social #YearOfTheDragon

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My latest Substack newsletter is live and gives some much deserved love to Michael Cimino's YEAR OF THE DRAGON (1985).
andrewnette.substack.com/p/forget-it-...

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Sold! I was already looking forward to this.

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The new, poisonous β€œguidance” for trans kids in schools has no foundation in science or medicine. It forces trans and non-binary kids back into the closet purely for the comfort of a loud, radicalized minority. And that’s gone so well, historically.

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Ukrainian ingenuity always delights me.

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Ballrogs deep...

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Currently listening to:

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Β£425k DUP Brexit drive funded by pro-Union donor The DUP has confirmed that it received Β£425,000 from a group of business people led by a Scottish Conservative party member and passed it on to help fund the UK pro-Brexit campaign.

"The names of donors in Northern Ireland are automatically withheld due to Troubles-era rules which sought to protect their security".

Such arrangements were made on the assumption that the DUP wouldn't be funding political advertising in England.

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That prick can fuck right off.

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Ha ha!

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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - film-authority.com […] More

On Talking Pictures, the 1979 Werner Herzog version of Nosferatu screens Friday 10.10pm on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

I reviewed the BFI blu-ray last year, and it's a poetic vampire story partly filmed in the beautiful town of LΓΌbeck. 4/5
#TalkingPicturesTV

film-authority.com/2025/09/25/n...

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Forbidden Planet titles

Forbidden Planet titles

Star Wars titles

Star Wars titles

🧡I watched Forbidden Planet last night. Hadn't seen it for decades. A super-intelligent race is destroyed, despite its technological advances, by its own subconscious primitive fears and greed, 'the monster of the ID'. Hashtag AI, etc.
Anyway, couldn't help but notice how the film influenced others.

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Why are some clips auto playing volume now? Bloody annoying.

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I got mine last week

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This just looks like a loyalist Twelfth bonfire. Hang a few flags off it.

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There's missing the point of something, and then there is *this*...

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Jamie Lee Curtis shed more tears over her husband than she did.

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A β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of Edge of Darkness (1985) (Full disclosure; I wrote this 18 years ago, and tickled it since only very slightly, so all reference to dates are circa 2007. I haven't changed my opinion.) In 1985, heavily pregnant with our first ...

Oh, yes nice thread - do you mind if I add something I wrote nearly 20 years ago?
boxd.it/8tNBvD

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This thread about Edge of Darkness and the clever comments made politely by bright and funny people is what I always hope the social media experience will be like, but which happens oh so rarely. You're great. Thank you. Have a biscuit. x

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