Anton Bitel
@antbit.projectedfigures.com
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
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The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s unravelling 8mm odyssey/oddity A GRAND MOCKERY (2024) is "a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man". On digital now via @yellowveilpictures.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/07/21/a...
A Grand Mockery (2024) at Fantasia 2025 - Projected Figures
The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s 8mm odyssey A GRAND MOCKERY is a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man
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December 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s unravelling 8mm odyssey/oddity A GRAND MOCKERY (2024) is "a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man". On digital now via @yellowveilpictures.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/07/21/a...
"paints Vincent van Gogh as an artist caught between his own and our times": Oliver Hirschbiegel and Albert Oehlen’s experimental broad-strokes biopic YELLOW (2024) projectedfigures.com/2025/12/26/y...
Yellow (2024) - Projected Figures
Hirschbiegel and Oehlen’s experimental broad-strokes biopic YELLOW paints Vincent van Gogh as an artist caught between his own and our times
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December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"paints Vincent van Gogh as an artist caught between his own and our times": Oliver Hirschbiegel and Albert Oehlen’s experimental broad-strokes biopic YELLOW (2024) projectedfigures.com/2025/12/26/y...
Memento mori: Māris Maskalāns’ documentary THE END (Beigas, 2024) "shows, through five people working close to death, the meaning of mortality". projectedfigures.com/2025/12/25/t...
The End (Beigas, 2024) - Projected Figures
Māris Maskalāns’ documentary THE END (BEIGAS) shows, through five people working close to death, the meaning of mortality
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December 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Memento mori: Māris Maskalāns’ documentary THE END (Beigas, 2024) "shows, through five people working close to death, the meaning of mortality". projectedfigures.com/2025/12/25/t...
Like Barber's Adagio, Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight is two things at once: a heart-wringing musical expression of sadness; a piece which has become a shorthand cliché in cinema cueing the audience to feel sad, so overtly manipulative that it cheapens its own effect.
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Like Barber's Adagio, Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight is two things at once: a heart-wringing musical expression of sadness; a piece which has become a shorthand cliché in cinema cueing the audience to feel sad, so overtly manipulative that it cheapens its own effect.
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Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
Always important - and especially during awards season - to remember that in order to like a film, you need not think it the best, but merely good.
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Always important - and especially during awards season - to remember that in order to like a film, you need not think it the best, but merely good.
When in doubt, act: Pilar Boyle and Mariano Asseff’s meandering psychodrama A SIP OF HELL (Un trago de infierno, 2024) "sees a performer finding her part and losing herself". projectedfigures.com/2025/12/24/a...
A Sip of Hell (Un Trago de Infierno) (2024) - Projected Figures
Pilar Boyle and Mariano Asseff’s meandering psychodrama A SIP OF HELL sees an actress finding her part and losing herself
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December 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
When in doubt, act: Pilar Boyle and Mariano Asseff’s meandering psychodrama A SIP OF HELL (Un trago de infierno, 2024) "sees a performer finding her part and losing herself". projectedfigures.com/2025/12/24/a...
Honoured to have contributed my pick of the year (@diamantmort.bsky.social) to @dmovies.bsky.social's Top 10 Dirtiest Movies of 2025. dmovies.org/2025/12/21/t...
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Honoured to have contributed my pick of the year (@diamantmort.bsky.social) to @dmovies.bsky.social's Top 10 Dirtiest Movies of 2025. dmovies.org/2025/12/21/t...
Lead by example: Jaan Tootsen’s insider documentary REBEL WITH A BOW TIE (Kikilipsuga mässaja, 2024) "offers an intimate, often very funny look at an unconventional figure on the world stage". (i.e., @ilvestoomas.bsky.social) projectedfigures.com/2025/12/23/r...
Rebel with a Bow Tie (Kikilipsuga mässaja) (2024) - Projected Figures
Jaan Tootsen’s insider documentary REBEL WITH A BOW TIE offers an intimate, often very funny look at an unconventional world leader
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December 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Lead by example: Jaan Tootsen’s insider documentary REBEL WITH A BOW TIE (Kikilipsuga mässaja, 2024) "offers an intimate, often very funny look at an unconventional figure on the world stage". (i.e., @ilvestoomas.bsky.social) projectedfigures.com/2025/12/23/r...
Here are my 10 picks for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social's "The best films of 2025". The order is purely alphabetical, and on a different day my choices might have been different, blah blah - but I stand by these choices as films that I would commend. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Here are my 10 picks for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social's "The best films of 2025". The order is purely alphabetical, and on a different day my choices might have been different, blah blah - but I stand by these choices as films that I would commend. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
yay me, I guess
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
yay me, I guess
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Remember when “if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you do it?” was a real question people used to ask
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Remember when “if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you do it?” was a real question people used to ask
Homer-ental: in @gerardjohnson.bsky.social’s satirical epyllion ODYSSEY, an ambitious, desperate North London estate agent voyages into the night to take care of business, becoming a real(ty) legend. On digital today via Icon, review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/odys...
Odyssey Review: An odd if always engaging film about the devil’s business
Homer-ental: in Gerard Johnson's satirical mini epic, an ambitious, desperate North London estate agent voyages into the night to take care of business, becoming a real(ty) legend
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December 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Homer-ental: in @gerardjohnson.bsky.social’s satirical epyllion ODYSSEY, an ambitious, desperate North London estate agent voyages into the night to take care of business, becoming a real(ty) legend. On digital today via Icon, review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/odys...
"hard to imagine a better watch (out)": Lewis Jackson's Yuletide ufo CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) puts the manic in Manichaeism, earning its place on the nice list of superlative Santa sleighers. My fave #ChristmasHorror, 8pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2018/04/12/c...
Christmas Evil (1980) - Projected Figures
Writer/director Lewis Jackson's one and only feature, the Yuletide ufo CHRISTMAS EVIL (aka YOU BETTER WATCH OUT, aka TERROR IN TOYLAND), puts the manic in Manichaeism.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"hard to imagine a better watch (out)": Lewis Jackson's Yuletide ufo CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) puts the manic in Manichaeism, earning its place on the nice list of superlative Santa sleighers. My fave #ChristmasHorror, 8pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2018/04/12/c...
one day I shall become a poet just so that I can make a rhyme of mannerism and aneurysm
December 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
one day I shall become a poet just so that I can make a rhyme of mannerism and aneurysm
Face***k is now insisting that I give them a bunch of facial recognition data to continue using their service, which makes me extremely uncomfortable. I cannot see any non-sinister reason why they would want/need such identity capture. Is this happening to other people?
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Face***k is now insisting that I give them a bunch of facial recognition data to continue using their service, which makes me extremely uncomfortable. I cannot see any non-sinister reason why they would want/need such identity capture. Is this happening to other people?
“You see Santa Claus tonight, you better run boy! You better run for your life!”: Charles E. Sellier, Jr.'s SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984) screens 8.45pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London. projectedfigures.com/2021/12/01/s...
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)/Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987) - Projected Figures
Charles E. Sellier, Jr.'s SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT and Lee Harry's gleefully reflexive sequel are santa slashers par excellence
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December 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
“You see Santa Claus tonight, you better run boy! You better run for your life!”: Charles E. Sellier, Jr.'s SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984) screens 8.45pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London. projectedfigures.com/2021/12/01/s...
With BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), Bob Clark invents not just the calendar slasher, but the whole slasher genre, while setting a standard too high for countless subsequent entries to meet. Screens 6.30pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2018/04/09/b...
Black Christmas (1974) - Projected Figures
Anything goes, and the survival of neither virgin nor even final girl comes guaranteed, in Bob Clark's proto-slasher BLACK CHRISTMAS
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December 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
With BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), Bob Clark invents not just the calendar slasher, but the whole slasher genre, while setting a standard too high for countless subsequent entries to meet. Screens 6.30pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2018/04/09/b...
You can't step into the same river twice: in Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature RIVER (2023), "an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future." On @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Can) from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/08/03/r...
River (2023) - Projected Figures
In Junta Yamaguchi’s looping SF feature RIVER, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future
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December 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
You can't step into the same river twice: in Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature RIVER (2023), "an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future." On @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Can) from today. projectedfigures.com/2024/08/03/r...
"still spectacular and state-of-the-art, but also somewhat samey": James Cameron's second Avatar sequel AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025) delivers a now familiar merger of meat and machine, earthling and alien. In cinemas from today. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/avat...
Avatar: Fire and Ash review: Visually breathtaking but a little repetitive
James Cameron’s second Avatar sequel is still spectacular and state-of-the-art, but also somewhat samey
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December 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"still spectacular and state-of-the-art, but also somewhat samey": James Cameron's second Avatar sequel AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025) delivers a now familiar merger of meat and machine, earthling and alien. In cinemas from today. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social. www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/avat...
"the different episodes... are gradually seen to be linked, albeit linked in a manner that defies chronology, confounds identity and leaves sanity sobbing in the dark": creaky old review of JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2002), now on @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Can) projectedfigures.com/2020/06/01/j...
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) - Projected Figures
Takashi Shimizu's nerve-shredding ghost story JU-ON: THE GRUDGE riffs off RING while showing a disorienting disregard for chronology or logic.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"the different episodes... are gradually seen to be linked, albeit linked in a manner that defies chronology, confounds identity and leaves sanity sobbing in the dark": creaky old review of JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2002), now on @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Can) projectedfigures.com/2020/06/01/j...
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Thrilled to announce this spectacular new blu of Fabrice Du Welz's glorious nightmare CALVAIRE (2004) I co-produced with the legendary @neilsnowdon.bsky.social for Arrow. Extras by @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @antbit.projectedfigures.com + more!
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December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thrilled to announce this spectacular new blu of Fabrice Du Welz's glorious nightmare CALVAIRE (2004) I co-produced with the legendary @neilsnowdon.bsky.social for Arrow. Extras by @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @antbit.projectedfigures.com + more!
In Luis Calderón’s melo-/psycho-drama THE TREEHOUSE (La casa en el árbol, 2025), "a final girl returns to the scene of the crime to face her male slasher"
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The Treehouse (La casa en el árbol) (2025) - Projected Figures
In Luis Calderon's melo-/psycho-drama THE TREEHOUSE, a final girl returns to the scene of the crime to face her male slasher
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December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In Luis Calderón’s melo-/psycho-drama THE TREEHOUSE (La casa en el árbol, 2025), "a final girl returns to the scene of the crime to face her male slasher"
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The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s unravelling 8mm odyssey/oddity A GRAND MOCKERY (2024) is "a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man". Screens 10pm tonight at @spectacletheater.com, NYC. projectedfigures.com/2025/07/21/a...
A Grand Mockery (2024) at Fantasia 2025 - Projected Figures
The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s 8mm odyssey A GRAND MOCKERY is a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man
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December 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon’s unravelling 8mm odyssey/oddity A GRAND MOCKERY (2024) is "a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man". Screens 10pm tonight at @spectacletheater.com, NYC. projectedfigures.com/2025/07/21/a...
"a film that travels in slow, inexorable circles, presenting its paranoid nightmare of entrapment as Kafka down under": Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is Australian cinema's finest, most ferociously self-loathing moment. 8.45pm @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2014/03/07/w...
Wake In Fright (aka Outback) (1971) - Projected Figures
Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT is a film that travels in slow, inexorable circles, presenting its paranoid nightmare of entrapment as Kafka down under.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"a film that travels in slow, inexorable circles, presenting its paranoid nightmare of entrapment as Kafka down under": Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is Australian cinema's finest, most ferociously self-loathing moment. 8.45pm @thenickelcinema.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2014/03/07/w...