David Hering
@davidhering.bsky.social
No blind spots in the leopard’s eyes
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David Hering
@davidhering.bsky.social
· Apr 16
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
I wrote a brief appreciation of the late Peter Watkins: davidhering.substack.com/p/peter-watk...
Peter Watkins: An Appreciation
Britain doesn’t appreciate its boldest filmmakers.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I wrote a brief appreciation of the late Peter Watkins: davidhering.substack.com/p/peter-watk...
A Halloween special post from Notes From The End Of Cinema about the time me and my friends made a horror film. You can read the post, and watch the film, at the link. Happy Halloween! open.substack.com/pub/davidher...
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A Halloween special post from Notes From The End Of Cinema about the time me and my friends made a horror film. You can read the post, and watch the film, at the link. Happy Halloween! open.substack.com/pub/davidher...
A Halloween special from Notes from the End of Cinema - 10 Horror films you might not know
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Halloween Special: 10 Horror films You Might Not Know
Happy October!
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October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A Halloween special from Notes from the End of Cinema - 10 Horror films you might not know
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I wrote on One Battle After Another, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson’s California
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A Few Small Beers with Pynchon: On One Battle After Another
If you put Paul Thomas Anderson’s films alongside each other you’d have a shadow history of California.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote on One Battle After Another, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson’s California
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I wrote on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with a Western open.substack.com/pub/davidher...
World-Wide-Western: On Ari Aster’s Eddington
The internet is uncinematic.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with a Western open.substack.com/pub/davidher...
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]
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]
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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]
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]
Delighted that this article has been picked up by @criterion.bsky.social for The Daily www.criterion.com/current/post...
August 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Delighted that this article has been picked up by @criterion.bsky.social for The Daily www.criterion.com/current/post...
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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
https://davidhering.substack.com/p/were-all-mad-here-on-zach-creggars
t.co
August 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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
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
https://davidhering.substack.com/p/were-all-mad-here-on-zach-creggars
t.co
August 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Enjoy this Rohmer talk and this picture of a Rohmer-esque lighthouse
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...
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!
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June 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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...
I have a very short story out today in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and you can read it here: xraylitmag.com/another-word...
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...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I have a very short story out today in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and you can read it here: xraylitmag.com/another-word...
I wrote about Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise’s increasingly deranged career
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Tom Cruise’s Dance with Death
On Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning
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June 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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!
May 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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!
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’m going to be on BBC News at 6:45 tonight discussing the International Booker Prize, if you’re so interested!
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
May 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
May 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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
April 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I wrote about David Cronenberg. Link here: t.co/wcIR0X9ghQ
Reposted by David Hering
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
April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
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
April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
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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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young with David Hering
Beyond The Zero · Episode
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April 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/2zwO...
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-...
March 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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-...
Marguerite Young, interviewed by The Paris Review in 1977, on the inspiration for the ‘opium lady’ in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
February 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
From a novel I wrote, still awaiting a publisher