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Andrew Nette

@pulpcurry.bsky.social

“It’s worse than death in the mines. you want them to sing opera as well?” Award winning author of fiction & non-fiction, pulp scholar, bibliophile, noir aficionado. Currently living in Berlin. https://linktr.ee/andrewnette

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Maybe others but also me. Absolutely. I wrote about it on my Substack a while ago. My favourite Michael Caine performance and such a great late 1960s revisionist song war film

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Maybe others but me, also. Absolutely. Love this film. And yes, so nasty

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Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany | The Quietus At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...

"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley

thequietus.com/culture/film...

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23.11.2025 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, l think it was me. Great film

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If you mixed DUEL (1971) with THE STORY OF O (1975) and KALIFORNIA (1993) you would have something approaching
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.

22.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 34    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Have you seen this @breakfastruins.bsky.social ?

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If you mixed DUEL (1971) with THE STORY OF O (1975) and KALIFORNIA (1993) you would have something approaching
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.

22.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 34    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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Christ, but this felt overwrought.

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Ditto

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That is saying something

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Hmmm, not quite but close

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His films are getting longer at the same time as they are getting less Intetesting

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Christ, but this felt overwrought.

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Never a bad thing to do.

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No, I have not but I want to.

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Seen ELEVATOR and this is a list of films l want to see. Will add the other

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Unwatched international film noir/neo noir An ongoing TBW list of international, ie, non-US, film noir/neo noir. By no means complete, a work in progress.

For those who really, really want to go down the international film noir/neo noir watch hole this #noirvember, check out my @letterboxd.social list of related films. By no means complete and, somehow, I doubt it ever will be.

letterboxd.com/andrewnette/...

20.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

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Great to contribute a commentary to this extraordinary @severinfilms.bsky.social release of Robert Fuest‘s THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973). Although Britain was crucial to the new wave SF movement in the late 1960s/early 1970s very few of these texts made it to the screen. This was one of the exceptions

20.11.2025 06:33 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1

I have seen some cool things on the U Bahn but nothing like that.

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Score

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Unwatched international film noir/neo noir An ongoing TBW list of international, ie, non-US, film noir/neo noir. By no means complete, a work in progress.

For those who really, really want to go down the international film noir/neo noir watch hole this #noirvember, check out my @letterboxd.social list of related films. By no means complete and, somehow, I doubt it ever will be.

letterboxd.com/andrewnette/...

20.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

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Unwatched international noir An ongoing TBW list of international, ie, non-US noir.

And, if you want to go full tilt, here is my complete @letterboxd.social list to date of international noir/film noir.
letterboxd.com/andrewnette/...

20.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can't go wrong with a Garfield/Winters combo.

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Noirvember update: why we still need to watch more international noir It’s Noirvember again.

For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.

andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...

20.11.2025 06:56 — 👍 46    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 4

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