Dan Berlinka
@danberlinka.bsky.social
Writer / director / coverer of waterfronts
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Love this story. The Louvre heist is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Who is ‘fedora man’? Dapper French teenager in viral Louvre heist photo unmasked
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux was captured looking suave in a picture outside the Paris museum on the day of a crown jewels heist
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love this story. The Louvre heist is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
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*Carpenter writes Thing$ on a whiteboard, execs cheer*
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
*Carpenter writes Thing$ on a whiteboard, execs cheer*
Shttl
(I also agree with the people who've picked Aftersun and The Beast, but I will never miss an opportunity to try to get more people to see Shttl.)
(I also agree with the people who've picked Aftersun and The Beast, but I will never miss an opportunity to try to get more people to see Shttl.)
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Shttl
(I also agree with the people who've picked Aftersun and The Beast, but I will never miss an opportunity to try to get more people to see Shttl.)
(I also agree with the people who've picked Aftersun and The Beast, but I will never miss an opportunity to try to get more people to see Shttl.)
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Aftersun
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Aftersun
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For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)
In an attempt to cut down on doomscrolling, over the past few weeks I played (and completed) three "Room" games on my phone. They're beautifully designed puzzle games by UK indie Fireproof Games. Reader, I paid for them. That's how good they are.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In an attempt to cut down on doomscrolling, over the past few weeks I played (and completed) three "Room" games on my phone. They're beautifully designed puzzle games by UK indie Fireproof Games. Reader, I paid for them. That's how good they are.
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RIP Gilson Lavis
First came across him as I fell in love with Squeeze & he was their drummer but he played with Buddy Holly & Jerry Lee Lewis previously.
Anyway, here’s a perfect kitchen sink pop song.
youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo?...
First came across him as I fell in love with Squeeze & he was their drummer but he played with Buddy Holly & Jerry Lee Lewis previously.
Anyway, here’s a perfect kitchen sink pop song.
youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo?...
Squeeze - Up The Junction
YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
RIP Gilson Lavis
First came across him as I fell in love with Squeeze & he was their drummer but he played with Buddy Holly & Jerry Lee Lewis previously.
Anyway, here’s a perfect kitchen sink pop song.
youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo?...
First came across him as I fell in love with Squeeze & he was their drummer but he played with Buddy Holly & Jerry Lee Lewis previously.
Anyway, here’s a perfect kitchen sink pop song.
youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo?...
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Incredible as it may seem, today is the birthday of TWO men who each invented a musical instrument that was named after them by adding "phone" to the end of their name.
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Incredible as it may seem, today is the birthday of TWO men who each invented a musical instrument that was named after them by adding "phone" to the end of their name.
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): the Sousaphone
Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): the Saxophone
#musicsky #conicindence #synchronicity
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I've written a new audio adaptation of one of Dickens' other Christmas books, The Cricket On The Hearth, and it's available now to buy as a bundle with The Haunted Man scripted by @jonnymorris.bsky.social. Mine stars Graham Fellows, his stars Paterson Joseph! averageromp.com/the-cricket-...
The Cricket in the Hearth & The Haunted Man – Average Romp
averageromp.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I've written a new audio adaptation of one of Dickens' other Christmas books, The Cricket On The Hearth, and it's available now to buy as a bundle with The Haunted Man scripted by @jonnymorris.bsky.social. Mine stars Graham Fellows, his stars Paterson Joseph! averageromp.com/the-cricket-...
I finished Long Story Short S1, Raphael Bob-Waksberg animated comedy about Jewish identity. There's a line to walk between representation and stereotyping, but episodes 7 & 8 do things I've never seen before. I don't know how wide an audience there is for this, but I laughed and cried and loved it.
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I finished Long Story Short S1, Raphael Bob-Waksberg animated comedy about Jewish identity. There's a line to walk between representation and stereotyping, but episodes 7 & 8 do things I've never seen before. I don't know how wide an audience there is for this, but I laughed and cried and loved it.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Kim Newman's Dracula shelfie is a beauty to behold!
I've contributed to the Shelfies online feature edited by Lavie Tidhar and Jared Shuren.
shelfies.beehiiv.com/p/shelfies-6...
shelfies.beehiiv.com/p/shelfies-6...
Shelfies #60: Kim Newman
I’m not a systematic collector – more an accumulator of mildly cool stuff.
shelfies.beehiiv.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Kim Newman's Dracula shelfie is a beauty to behold!
Audience review:
Hester Street. NFT2. November 3rd.
There were Yiddishists behind me, laughing extra loudly to make sure everyone knew they understood nuances the subtitles lost. But honestly, if my Yiddish was that good, I'd do the same.
****/5 (And wonderful to see so many young people there.)
Hester Street. NFT2. November 3rd.
There were Yiddishists behind me, laughing extra loudly to make sure everyone knew they understood nuances the subtitles lost. But honestly, if my Yiddish was that good, I'd do the same.
****/5 (And wonderful to see so many young people there.)
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Audience review:
Hester Street. NFT2. November 3rd.
There were Yiddishists behind me, laughing extra loudly to make sure everyone knew they understood nuances the subtitles lost. But honestly, if my Yiddish was that good, I'd do the same.
****/5 (And wonderful to see so many young people there.)
Hester Street. NFT2. November 3rd.
There were Yiddishists behind me, laughing extra loudly to make sure everyone knew they understood nuances the subtitles lost. But honestly, if my Yiddish was that good, I'd do the same.
****/5 (And wonderful to see so many young people there.)
Last night in NFT2 I saw Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver's charming story of Jewish immigrants in New York in the late 1800s. The recreation of the Lower East Side feels almost like ethnography, but what makes it so much more is Carol Kane's magical performance. A small miracle of a film.
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Last night in NFT2 I saw Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver's charming story of Jewish immigrants in New York in the late 1800s. The recreation of the Lower East Side feels almost like ethnography, but what makes it so much more is Carol Kane's magical performance. A small miracle of a film.
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Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...
If you're in London between now and November 9th, there is a gorgeous *free* (and under advertised) Frankenstein exhibition at Selfridges. Costumes, designs, models, and first editions of the novel. (Thanks to mirror-lurking @johnnymains.co.uk for taking me there!) www.selfridges.com/GB/en/stores...
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you're in London between now and November 9th, there is a gorgeous *free* (and under advertised) Frankenstein exhibition at Selfridges. Costumes, designs, models, and first editions of the novel. (Thanks to mirror-lurking @johnnymains.co.uk for taking me there!) www.selfridges.com/GB/en/stores...
Fridge magnet / matchbox combo. A timely Halloween gift. Thank you @johnnymains.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fridge magnet / matchbox combo. A timely Halloween gift. Thank you @johnnymains.co.uk
Last night I double-billed Halloween and Blow Out. Carpenter so utterly codifies the genre that a mere 3 years later De Palma is able to deconstruct it in a single sequence. Halloween is a perfectly distilled campfire tale. Blow Out is pure movie, as if a film wrote itself. Happy Halloween 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Last night I double-billed Halloween and Blow Out. Carpenter so utterly codifies the genre that a mere 3 years later De Palma is able to deconstruct it in a single sequence. Halloween is a perfectly distilled campfire tale. Blow Out is pure movie, as if a film wrote itself. Happy Halloween 🎃
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Last night, Nadia Latif joined Directors UK members for a screening of #TheManInMyBasement, followed by a fascinating discussion with George Amponsah on the work that went into directing her feature film debut.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great evening!
📸Jon Cartwright
Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great evening!
📸Jon Cartwright
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Last night, Nadia Latif joined Directors UK members for a screening of #TheManInMyBasement, followed by a fascinating discussion with George Amponsah on the work that went into directing her feature film debut.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great evening!
📸Jon Cartwright
Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great evening!
📸Jon Cartwright
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
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Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.
Elon musk: ‘Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.’
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.
For the love of all that is holy, our government, our MPs, our institutions and anyone who cares about the core values of liberal democracy (however flawed) has to stop using X as the default platform. The deck is stacked. It's like trying to change the world by writing for The Mail or The Sun.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For the love of all that is holy, our government, our MPs, our institutions and anyone who cares about the core values of liberal democracy (however flawed) has to stop using X as the default platform. The deck is stacked. It's like trying to change the world by writing for The Mail or The Sun.
Audience review:
The Man In My Basement. The Garden Cinema (Directors UK screening). October 28th.
Some mild lateness. Removing coats from empty seats would be a kindness.
But still ****/5 overall.
And *****/5 for the man who leapt up to tell the cinema they hadn't dimmed the lights correctly.
The Man In My Basement. The Garden Cinema (Directors UK screening). October 28th.
Some mild lateness. Removing coats from empty seats would be a kindness.
But still ****/5 overall.
And *****/5 for the man who leapt up to tell the cinema they hadn't dimmed the lights correctly.
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Audience review:
The Man In My Basement. The Garden Cinema (Directors UK screening). October 28th.
Some mild lateness. Removing coats from empty seats would be a kindness.
But still ****/5 overall.
And *****/5 for the man who leapt up to tell the cinema they hadn't dimmed the lights correctly.
The Man In My Basement. The Garden Cinema (Directors UK screening). October 28th.
Some mild lateness. Removing coats from empty seats would be a kindness.
But still ****/5 overall.
And *****/5 for the man who leapt up to tell the cinema they hadn't dimmed the lights correctly.