Holger Haase

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Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is on your timeline...

Larry Cohen! His screenplay HEADHUNTER & memoir I KILLED BETTIE DAVIS now available in both hardcover & paperback! I edited both & wrote intros.

The hardcover Cohen has color and black & white images, the softcover has black & white images.

Buy direct from SPB for BIG discount!

It's been about three decades since I first watched ZARDOZ for the one and only time. I have now upgraded my opinion from "utter disaster" to "fascinating folly". Give me one two more rewatches and I may declare this a masterpiece.

I've always thought that WEEDS ripped its premise from BREAKING BAD but today noticed that it premiered three years prior to that show so that it was in fact the other way round.

I think I'll be starting a petition for a moratorium on any mention of Occam's Razor in crime film or fiction of any type. It's become such a tired cliché.

Plus he was a really nice bloke. David Puttnam was there as well

Saw Gabriel Byrne last night at the Cork Film Festival.
In actual fact sat right behind him when DEFENCE OF THE REALM was shown.

I once was invited to a wedding, i.e. folks who should actually know me better, and for my name on the seating arrangements they got exactly one letter right: the G. They had me down as "Ungan". I am getting this kind of stuff so much, I still instantly knew it was me.

And the true cinematic discovery in 2025 for me... is a film from 1973: HOLLYWOOD 90028

Yay, thank you for your kind words. I find the novel and its two adaptations absolutely fascinating but the Fassbinder film is the superior version of those three... albeit so unusual and unique that it may not be for everyone.

Oh, then you're the first person I know who has watched it. I hadn't even heard of it until this podcast. It just came up as a second adaptation of the same novel that WORLD ON A WIRE is based on which we had covered last week. Let me know what you think of the episode.

Really enjoyed guesting on yet another podcast episode so close after the last one and continuing the Simulacron-3 discussion.

linktr.ee/cultconnecti...

Just fyi though, Samhain is November 1st. Tonight is just Oíche Shamhna.

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Great choice of films.

I have never managed to finish a single LB challenge as my viewing habits are way too scatterbrained and I seem to lack the discipline to stay the course.

I am months behind with updating my photography website but am slowly catching up again.
These are from a steampunk shoot at an abandoned railroad track in April.
I also started experimenting with medium format.

Some samples here; the rest on my website:
corkglamourphotography.com/2025/10/29/s...

My new fummetti haul courtesy of a generous colleague. If I'm not fluent in Italian after reading all those....

Vincent Price distributing hot dogs at Dodger stadium

Vincent Price handing out Dodger dogs at Dodger Stadium 1965
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Back on Ian's podcast and first time discussing Fassbinder!

The episode can be found on any of those links (or wherever you usually get your podcasts from):

linktr.ee/cultconnecti...

The Diabolical Dr. Z. 1966. Terrific fusion of gothic horror and sci-fi thriller from an era when Franco put style before sleaze. Strikingly shot, utterly unique.
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Both fantastic choices. Need to rewatch "Woman in the Window" again soon myself

SCARLET STREET

Kitty March: Now you go on and paint.
Christopher Cross: Can I paint you?
Kitty March: Well, I was going to do this myself, but, uh...
[hands him toenail polish]
Kitty March: Paint me, Chris!... They'll be masterpieces.

(They just don't write kink coded dialogue like this anymore.)

Guess I just found my movie to watch for tonight.

Tobias Frere-Jones Looks to the Past With Optimism About the Future – PRINT Magazine The renowned type designer and educator discusses Frere-Jones Type's tenth anniversary and its newest release, Edgar.

This is the article that spawned my little bit of research

www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...

A Typeface named "Edgar" aka: Art in the Blood I came across this article today that celebrated a new typeface called “Edgar”. It was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones (*August 28, 1970) a...

If you (like me!) were under the impression that Bryan Edgar and Penelope Wallace were the only illustrious Edgar Wallace descendants, then you're in for a big surprise.

krimifilm.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-ty...

It's Fritz Lang Friday:

Looking through the program of the Cork Film Festival....

They have a little John Boorman retrospective. Yay!
Also with EXCALIBUR. Yay!
Boorman will be present at one event. Yay!
For.... ZARDOZ. Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!

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