David Hering

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

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

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?...

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

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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...

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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...

Tom Cruise’s Dance with Death On Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning

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

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Correction: 7:45pm now!

I’m going to be on BBC News at 6:45 tonight discussing the International Booker Prize, if you’re so interested!

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

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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

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

I wrote about David Cronenberg. Link here: t.co/wcIR0X9ghQ

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

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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

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!

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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-...

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

Marguerite Young, interviewed by The Paris Review in 1977, on the inspiration for the ‘opium lady’ in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

From a novel I wrote, still awaiting a publisher

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"

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

My favourite books I read in 2024 (2/2). John Lurie's superlative biography, an disturbing and unexpectedly timely history of South Korea from the new Nobel laureate, a kaleidoscopic portrait of hell, and above everything, Marcel P, who provided me with the experience of my life

My favourite books I read in 2024 (1/2). An epic poem about poetry, German misanthropy, Parisian therapists, a history of viruses, hauntings in the Alps and the American South, a huge whale in a collapsing town, and a portrait of stolen childhood

Favourite films I saw in 2024 that are not from 2024

quite proud that mine and @davidhering.bsky.social’s episode of uol’s english department podcast is the most listened to! you can also listen, here: open.spotify.com/episode/2wbT...