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@davidhering.bsky.social

No blind spots in the leopard’s eyes

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World-Wide-Western: On Ari Aster’s Eddington The internet is uncinematic.

I wrote on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with a Western open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

18.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

60s Scott Walker:
Baby take it easy now/I miss your sweet caress and how!

70s Scott Walker:
The boulevards are rushing by, mon frere/With ennui and some despair

00s Scott Walker: Locust/Locust/Disease [sound of Mickey Mouse being tortured in a Bolivian jail]

22.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Delighted that this article has been picked up by @criterion.bsky.social for The Daily www.criterion.com/current/post...

15.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
https://davidhering.substack.com/p/were-all-mad-here-on-zach-creggars

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

10.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
https://davidhering.substack.com/p/were-all-mad-here-on-zach-creggars

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

10.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Enjoy this Rohmer talk and this picture of a Rohmer-esque lighthouse

01.08.2025 18:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The Five Point Battle | Gangs of New York | CLIP
YouTube video by Boxoffice Movie Scenes The Five Point Battle | Gangs of New York | CLIP

The editing in the film is frequently bizarre and choppy. It amazes me how the opening fight is so poorly edited that we get an intercut shot of DDL hacking off Liam Neeson’s arm when he’s nowhere near him (3:01 here): youtu.be/zJjEakixDtU?...

01.08.2025 07:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Two Paths for the Music Biopic: On Alex Ross Perry’s 'Pavements' I was once asked if there was a genre of movie that I disliked.

I wrote about Pavements and the current state of the Music Biopic

open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

21.07.2025 19:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Isles of Wonder: On Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later This piece contains major spoilers for 28 Years LaterThanks for reading Notes from the End of Cinema!

I wrote about 28 Years Later, a film which I struggled with but nevertheless found fascinating in its vision of contemporary Britain davidhering.substack.com/p/isles-of-w...

21.06.2025 08:52 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

13.06.2025 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ANOTHER WORD FOR IT by David Hering The woman who wrote Beowulf considered it juvenilia. She composed it during the years she roamed close to the old hall, hearing the revelry, watching the fighting and fucking from the slippery dark ou...

I have a very short story out today in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and you can read it here: xraylitmag.com/another-word...

13.06.2025 19:16 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Tom Cruise’s Dance with Death On Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning

I wrote about Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise’s increasingly deranged career

davidhering.substack.com/p/tom-cruise...

02.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Correction: 7:45pm now!

20.05.2025 18:20 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m going to be on BBC News at 6:45 tonight discussing the International Booker Prize, if you’re so interested!

20.05.2025 16:49 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I have heard from people who worked the opening weekend of Fifty Shades of Gray that there were horrors beyond human comprehension

18.05.2025 09:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks!!

18.05.2025 09:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new substack from me on The Six Worst Cinema Audiences of My Life. A journey through cinema hell which many of you will recognise: t.co/oJsheCJd8n

18.05.2025 09:27 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 3
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For my latest Substack, I wrote about the modern cinematic haunted house, Boomers, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Zemeckis and the uncanny quality of real estate photography: t.co/oZFAp1jGOL

07.05.2025 16:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I wrote about David Cronenberg. Link here: t.co/wcIR0X9ghQ

22.04.2025 16:56 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm starting a Substack, 'Notes from the End of Cinema'. It's a film diary, but will also feature writing on broader aspects of contemporary cinema. Anything and everything from the history of cinema will be covered. If you'd like to subscribe, the link is here: t.co/rS09qsHUT1

16.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

❤️

17.04.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!!

17.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm starting a Substack, 'Notes from the End of Cinema'. It's a film diary, but will also feature writing on broader aspects of contemporary cinema. Anything and everything from the history of cinema will be covered. If you'd like to subscribe, the link is here: t.co/rS09qsHUT1

16.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young with David Hering Beyond The Zero · Episode

I had a great time discussing Marguerite Young's monumental novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling on @beyondthezero.bsky.social - link here!

open.spotify.com/episode/2zwO...

03.04.2025 12:02 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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I'm currently working on a new novel, and an extract from it, titled 'The Gleaner's Wife', which was previously available only in The London Magazine's print issue, is now available to read on my website. Link: www.davidhering.com/the-gleaner-...

18.03.2025 12:30 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I should have asked him to sign my copy! Fortunate to have bought this way back when

13.03.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Marguerite Young, interviewed by The Paris Review in 1977, on the inspiration for the ‘opium lady’ in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

04.02.2025 07:32 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From a novel I wrote, still awaiting a publisher

31.01.2025 11:26 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Best 20th-Century American Novels The best 20th-century American novels, from Edith Wharton to Toni Morrison and recommended by critic and novelist David Hering

"Yes, I’ve ignored two decades which some would say constitute the absolute apex of the American novel but I can assure you it wasn’t personal"

25.01.2025 14:30 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 3

Yes. I had some issues with it - not my favourite Everett - but still v interesting

09.12.2024 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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