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
Reposted by Anton Bitel
One of the highest-level Jan 6 defendants is back behind bars
A very efficient summary just filed to CBS News
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A very efficient summary just filed to CBS News
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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One of the highest-level Jan 6 defendants is back behind bars
A very efficient summary just filed to CBS News
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A very efficient summary just filed to CBS News
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Hiroshi Teshigahara's THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966) "leaves the viewer unsure whether its protagonist is dangerous criminal, mental patient, angst-ridden Everyman of the modern age, or cipher for Japan’s unstable identity in the post-war period". RIP Tatsuya Nakadai projectedfigures.com/2016/06/21/f...
The Face of Another (1966) - Projected Figures
The Face Of Another uses horror as a mask for post-war trauma, identity crisis and metamorphosis in the land of the rising sun (and the falling bomb).
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November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hiroshi Teshigahara's THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966) "leaves the viewer unsure whether its protagonist is dangerous criminal, mental patient, angst-ridden Everyman of the modern age, or cipher for Japan’s unstable identity in the post-war period". RIP Tatsuya Nakadai projectedfigures.com/2016/06/21/f...
I was just thinking about something, and then something happened. To be fair, they were entirely different things, but still, power of the mind and all that.
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I was just thinking about something, and then something happened. To be fair, they were entirely different things, but still, power of the mind and all that.
Text of my on-stage introduction to Kim Seok's THE INFORMANT (2025), which screened at the London Korean Film Festival, 9th Nov, 2025. So painstakingly spoiler-free that I barely mention the film itself... projectedfigures.com/2025/11/11/t...
The Informant (2024) and the undercover genre - Projected Figures
On-stage introduction to Kim Seok's THE INFORMANT (2024) for the London Korean Film Festival, 9th November 2025
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November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Text of my on-stage introduction to Kim Seok's THE INFORMANT (2025), which screened at the London Korean Film Festival, 9th Nov, 2025. So painstakingly spoiler-free that I barely mention the film itself... projectedfigures.com/2025/11/11/t...
"I'm just passing through": Tallulah H. Schwab's Kafka-esque MR. K (2024) "makes a labyrinthine hotel a microcosm of bounded, blinkered human experience". On digital from today via @musicboxfilms.com. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2024/11/15/m...
Mr. K (2024) - Projected Figures
Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab’s Kafka-esque allegory Mr K. makes a labyrinthine hotel a microcosm of bounded, blinkered human experience
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November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"I'm just passing through": Tallulah H. Schwab's Kafka-esque MR. K (2024) "makes a labyrinthine hotel a microcosm of bounded, blinkered human experience". On digital from today via @musicboxfilms.com. Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2024/11/15/m...
Always look up: Daniel Masciari’s bittersweet debut STATIONED AT HOME (2025) "sends a cabbie and his customers on a Christmas Eve trip into cosmic melancholy". On N. American DVD/VOD from today via Freestyle Digital Media projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/s...
Stationed At Home (2024) - Projected Figures
Daniel V. Masciari’s bittersweet STATIONED AT HOME sends a cabbie and his customers on a Christmas Eve trip into cosmic melancholy
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November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Always look up: Daniel Masciari’s bittersweet debut STATIONED AT HOME (2025) "sends a cabbie and his customers on a Christmas Eve trip into cosmic melancholy". On N. American DVD/VOD from today via Freestyle Digital Media projectedfigures.com/2025/03/07/s...
"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction, artistic aspirations and capitalistic concerns": text of my on-stage introduction to Jang Man-min's SILVER APRICOT (2024) for the London Korean Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/11/11/s...
Silver Apricot (2024) - Projected Figures
Jang Man-min’s SILVER APRICOT is a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction, artistic aspirations and capitalistic concerns
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November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction, artistic aspirations and capitalistic concerns": text of my on-stage introduction to Jang Man-min's SILVER APRICOT (2024) for the London Korean Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/11/11/s...
I don’t think of it as LLMs plagiarising my writing. I prefer to see it as me poisoning LLMs’ well.
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I don’t think of it as LLMs plagiarising my writing. I prefer to see it as me poisoning LLMs’ well.
"a sophisticated retelling of PSYCHO as a movie within a movie": Bigas Luna's mesmerising, metacinematic ANGUISH (1987) screens 9pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Unmissable. projectedfigures.com/2015/04/02/a...
Anguish (Angustia) (1987) - Projected Figures
Bigas Luna's mesmerising, metacinematic ANGUISH (ANGUSTIA) is a sophisticated retelling of PSYCHO as a movie within a movie
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"a sophisticated retelling of PSYCHO as a movie within a movie": Bigas Luna's mesmerising, metacinematic ANGUISH (1987) screens 9pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Unmissable. projectedfigures.com/2015/04/02/a...
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
correction: this is at the ICA, not the BFI. h/t @trustworthym.bsky.social, who has just saved me a lot of trouble…
"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction and the transient nature of material things in our lives": Jang Man-min’s feature debut SILVER APRICOT screens 1.30pm today at BFI for London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/silve...
Silver Apricot - London Korean Film Festival
When she is not doing graphic design for her Seoul day job, 32-year-old Kim Jung-seo (Na Ae-jin) writes a vampire-based webtoon – and blood is on her mind. For she is returning to her seaside hometown...
www.koreanfilm.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
correction: this is at the ICA, not the BFI. h/t @trustworthym.bsky.social, who has just saved me a lot of trouble…
"As deceit, disguise and double-dealing reign, this is a broad, bombastic entertainment, never predictable but always funny": Kim-seok's action comedy THE INFORMANT screen 3pm today at the BFI for the London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/the-i...
The Informant - London Korean Film Festival
Kim Seok’s action comedy knowingly — and relentlessly — subverts the established tropes of ‘cops and robbers’ movies, and keeps wrongfooting expectations, faking the viewer out in much the same way th...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"As deceit, disguise and double-dealing reign, this is a broad, bombastic entertainment, never predictable but always funny": Kim-seok's action comedy THE INFORMANT screen 3pm today at the BFI for the London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/the-i...
"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction and the transient nature of material things in our lives": Jang Man-min’s feature debut SILVER APRICOT screens 1.30pm today at BFI for London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/silve...
Silver Apricot - London Korean Film Festival
When she is not doing graphic design for her Seoul day job, 32-year-old Kim Jung-seo (Na Ae-jin) writes a vampire-based webtoon – and blood is on her mind. For she is returning to her seaside hometown...
www.koreanfilm.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"a messy saga of blood, roots, family dysfunction and the transient nature of material things in our lives": Jang Man-min’s feature debut SILVER APRICOT screens 1.30pm today at BFI for London Korean Film Festival, introduced by me. www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/silve...
"a filmmaker returns home to retrace his missing sister’s last known footsteps": Robbie Banfitch’s slow-burn faux documentary TINSMAN ROAD (2025) screens 5.45pm today at Vue in the Light, for the @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/18/t...
Tinsman Road (2025) - Projected Figures
In Robbie Banfitch's slow-burn faux documentary TINSMAN ROAD, a filmmaker returns home to retrace his missing sister's last known footsteps
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November 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"a filmmaker returns home to retrace his missing sister’s last known footsteps": Robbie Banfitch’s slow-burn faux documentary TINSMAN ROAD (2025) screens 5.45pm today at Vue in the Light, for the @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/18/t...
"invites us to peek with Ray Winstone’s protagonist into the world of sex work": my old review of Richard Hawkins’ low-budget directorial debut EVERYTHING (2004). His latest, THINK OF ENGLAND, will have its world première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
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everything (2004) - Projected Figures
Richard Hawkins' low-budget directorial debut EVERYTHING invites us to peek with Ray Winstone's protagonist into the world of sex work
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November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"invites us to peek with Ray Winstone’s protagonist into the world of sex work": my old review of Richard Hawkins’ low-budget directorial debut EVERYTHING (2004). His latest, THINK OF ENGLAND, will have its world première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
projectedfigures.com/2025/11/08/e...
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"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) screens 10pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...
Honey Bunch (2025) - Projected Figures
In Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli's genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH, a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic
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November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"a husband takes his amnesiac wife to a mysterious clinic": Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli’s Seventies-set, genre-fluid erotic odyssey HONEY BUNCH (2025) screens 10pm tonight at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/02/24/h...
“opens a young man’s eyes to the needs of the elderly”: James DeMonaco’s care facility-set horror mystery THE HOME (2025) re-screens 9.45pm tonight at @imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...
The Home (2025) Review | FrightFest
James DeMonaco's care facility-set horror mystery opens a young man's eyes to the needs of the elderly.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“opens a young man’s eyes to the needs of the elderly”: James DeMonaco’s care facility-set horror mystery THE HOME (2025) re-screens 9.45pm tonight at @imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @scifinow.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-...
"gradually brings its characters home from endless, empty vendetta": Kevin and Matt McManus’ universe-leaping repeat revenger REDUX REDUX (2025) re-screens 9.30pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/09/r...
Redux Redux (2025) - Projected Figures
Kevin and Matthew McManus' universe-leaping repeat revenger REDUX REDUX gradually brings its characters home from endless, empty vendetta
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November 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"gradually brings its characters home from endless, empty vendetta": Kevin and Matt McManus’ universe-leaping repeat revenger REDUX REDUX (2025) re-screens 9.30pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/03/09/r...
This "hilarious take on J-horror and the body myth insists you not spurn the implacable erotomaniac(s) at its heart": Yuriyan Retriever’s lovesick curse movie MAG MAG (2025) re-screens 9.15pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/16/m...
Mag Mag (2025) - Projected Figures
Yuriyan Retriever's hilarious take on J-horror and the body myth MAG MAG insists you not spurn the implacable erotomaniac(s) at its heart
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November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This "hilarious take on J-horror and the body myth insists you not spurn the implacable erotomaniac(s) at its heart": Yuriyan Retriever’s lovesick curse movie MAG MAG (2025) re-screens 9.15pm today at @imaginefff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/10/16/m...
"It's enough to drive you crazy": Wojciech Has' picaresque THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1965) offers 1001 nights of narrative neurosis. Screens 7.45pm today at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Very highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2015/05/17/t...
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) - Projected Figures
The Saragossa Manuscript first published by EyeforFilm “Frasquita told her story to Busqueros, he told it to Lopez Suarez, who in turn told it to Señor Avadoro. It’s enough to drive you crazy.” In fac...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"It's enough to drive you crazy": Wojciech Has' picaresque THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (1965) offers 1001 nights of narrative neurosis. Screens 7.45pm today at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Very highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2015/05/17/t...
"a bleak portrait of an ageing, dying community, of those left behind by Korea’s economic boom, and of a whole way of life that is running on empty": Park Ri-woong's THE LAND OF MORNING CALM screens 6.30pm today at ICA for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/the-l...
The Land of Morning Calm - London Korean Film Festival
In a neglected coastal village, bullying, cantankerous Vietnam vet Yeong-guk (Yoon Joo-sang) drowns his sorrows every night, and goes out early each morning in a fishing boat that, like him, has seen ...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"a bleak portrait of an ageing, dying community, of those left behind by Korea’s economic boom, and of a whole way of life that is running on empty": Park Ri-woong's THE LAND OF MORNING CALM screens 6.30pm today at ICA for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/the-l...
"interrogates the unhinged drives and motives of an online celebrity": Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist portrait of an artist THE PIANO ACCIDENT (2025) re-screens 4.45pm today at
@imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/12/t...
@imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/12/t...
The Piano Accident (L'accident de Piano) - DMovies
Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist portrait of an artist interrogates the unhinged drives and motives of an online celebrity - from MotelX, in Portugal
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November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"interrogates the unhinged drives and motives of an online celebrity": Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist portrait of an artist THE PIANO ACCIDENT (2025) re-screens 4.45pm today at
@imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/12/t...
@imaginefff.bsky.social. Review for @dmovies.bsky.social dmovies.org/2025/09/12/t...
"This trip through trauma exposes the seamy side of Korea’s manufactured entertainment industry, and its horrific, scarring exploitation of young people": Namkoong Sun’s TIME TO BE STRONG (2024) screens 4.30pm today, ICA for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/time-...
Time to Be Strong - London Korean Film Festival
“Finding our way is difficult,“ says Su-min (Choi Sung-eun) in voice-over, as she emerges from Jeju Island’s airport with Tae-hee (Hyun Woo-seok) and Sa-rang (Ha Seo-yoon). They certainly look lost, o...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"This trip through trauma exposes the seamy side of Korea’s manufactured entertainment industry, and its horrific, scarring exploitation of young people": Namkoong Sun’s TIME TO BE STRONG (2024) screens 4.30pm today, ICA for London Korean Film Festival www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/time-...