David Forsythe
@daveforsythe.bsky.social
Screenwriter, journalist.
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For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Noirvember update: why we still need to watch more international noir
It’s Noirvember again.
andrewnette.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
The Pope and Julie go Boating
Popes in the Mist
Pope: Resurrection
A Pope of Dynamite
Pope Camp
RoboPope
Swamp Pope
The Running Pope
Rogue Pope
The Pope’s Knee
Pope in the Dunes
The Exterminating Pope
The Roaring Pope
The Pope Who Fell to Earth
The Invisible Pope
Vampire Pope
Popes in the Mist
Pope: Resurrection
A Pope of Dynamite
Pope Camp
RoboPope
Swamp Pope
The Running Pope
Rogue Pope
The Pope’s Knee
Pope in the Dunes
The Exterminating Pope
The Roaring Pope
The Pope Who Fell to Earth
The Invisible Pope
Vampire Pope
Add a pope, improve a film. I’ll go first:
Snakes on a Pope
Snakes on a Pope
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Pope and Julie go Boating
Popes in the Mist
Pope: Resurrection
A Pope of Dynamite
Pope Camp
RoboPope
Swamp Pope
The Running Pope
Rogue Pope
The Pope’s Knee
Pope in the Dunes
The Exterminating Pope
The Roaring Pope
The Pope Who Fell to Earth
The Invisible Pope
Vampire Pope
Popes in the Mist
Pope: Resurrection
A Pope of Dynamite
Pope Camp
RoboPope
Swamp Pope
The Running Pope
Rogue Pope
The Pope’s Knee
Pope in the Dunes
The Exterminating Pope
The Roaring Pope
The Pope Who Fell to Earth
The Invisible Pope
Vampire Pope
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Hey Belfast - tomorrow I will be conducting a Q&A with Ben Wheatley after the Irish premiere of his ramshackle, handmade, brain-twisting, zero-budget new movie BULK.
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
Belfast Film Festival 2025
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Hey Belfast - tomorrow I will be conducting a Q&A with Ben Wheatley after the Irish premiere of his ramshackle, handmade, brain-twisting, zero-budget new movie BULK.
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
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Extremely funny that the state just had people pay to build their own panopticon
Ope.
They gotcha!
If tech is cheap, it’s going to take from you.
They gotcha!
If tech is cheap, it’s going to take from you.
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
www.yahoo.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Extremely funny that the state just had people pay to build their own panopticon
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One of Peter Cushing's best performances - a terrific crime movie spin on A Christmas Carol.
Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 classic matinee today stars #PeterCushing #AndreMorell in the #HammerFilms thriller
💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles
💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles
October 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
One of Peter Cushing's best performances - a terrific crime movie spin on A Christmas Carol.
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
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I'm seeing nothing but slam pieces on Catherine Connolly and not a word about Heather Humphries. Odd, that.
October 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm seeing nothing but slam pieces on Catherine Connolly and not a word about Heather Humphries. Odd, that.
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Jim Gavin election posters all around Ireland like Easter Island stone heads. Who put them there? Nobody knows. What is their purpose? Perhaps astral guides for interstellar observers, perhaps a crude calendar by which the olden times people kept track of the seasons & feastdays. We can only guess.
October 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Jim Gavin election posters all around Ireland like Easter Island stone heads. Who put them there? Nobody knows. What is their purpose? Perhaps astral guides for interstellar observers, perhaps a crude calendar by which the olden times people kept track of the seasons & feastdays. We can only guess.
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I wrote an article about what we gain when we make art, and what we lose when we use AI to make it.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
What you lose when you use AI to make art
The act of creating something is often far more valuable than the finished product — why would we hand those benefits over to AI companies?
www.irishexaminer.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote an article about what we gain when we make art, and what we lose when we use AI to make it.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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i’m genuinely pleading with you to read this entire article
Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks
Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks
MONESSEN, PA—Recreational cyclist Ethan Coseglia, 38, thoroughly explained the benefits of wearing $35 bike-riding socks to his friend Kevin Washburn Friday, saying that his specially designed socks a...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i’m genuinely pleading with you to read this entire article
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People say "some of Ben Wheatley's movies are bad" and I say "he's out there making movies like crazy, having fun and learning and taking chances, what have you done recently"
When every other filmmaker in the UK is waiting years with their script 'in development' (some BFI/BBC boffin wants to give you money but has 20 reasons they mysteriously can't) Ben Wheatley is here going "nah fuck this I'm making a film"
September 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The fact that the term "Death Squads" is not yet in use in relation to MAGA's strategic goals for much of the Western Hemisphere is a testament to how so many American analysts and journalists still can't get their heads around what is unfolding right in front of them in Washington
September 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The fact that the term "Death Squads" is not yet in use in relation to MAGA's strategic goals for much of the Western Hemisphere is a testament to how so many American analysts and journalists still can't get their heads around what is unfolding right in front of them in Washington
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For @criterion.bsky.social, a piece about the late Michael Roemer and his moving documentary DYING. www.criterion.com/current/post...
Michael Roemer’s Patient and Unflinching Study of Mortality
Made for public television, this moving vérité documentary about three terminally ill cancer patients is one of the purest expressions of the director’s career-long preoccupation with human fragility.
www.criterion.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
For @criterion.bsky.social, a piece about the late Michael Roemer and his moving documentary DYING. www.criterion.com/current/post...
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
August 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
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Carole Lombard, Columbia publicity shot, c1932.
August 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Carole Lombard, Columbia publicity shot, c1932.
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Fore #BeyondFriday this week we are going back to the grubby streets of New York with Robert Butler's Night of the Juggler. This thriller looks intense as all hell, and I cannot wait to watch. See you all on Friday. BROLIN.
August 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Fore #BeyondFriday this week we are going back to the grubby streets of New York with Robert Butler's Night of the Juggler. This thriller looks intense as all hell, and I cannot wait to watch. See you all on Friday. BROLIN.
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Think I'll read this once a week forever.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Think I'll read this once a week forever.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
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There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
August 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
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A cracking list from @marbleicehook.bsky.social. The Czech time-travelling farce Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) is the most delightful Hitler-related film you're ever likely to see.
10 great Eastern European sci-fi films
From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from Easter...
www.bfi.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A cracking list from @marbleicehook.bsky.social. The Czech time-travelling farce Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) is the most delightful Hitler-related film you're ever likely to see.
Someone has put Kevin Reynolds rarely seen Fandango (1985) up on YouTube. Kevin Costner’s first proper leading role too.
youtu.be/S2BOvrqowsE?...
youtu.be/S2BOvrqowsE?...
Fandango the movie
YouTube video by Tsakani Zanele
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Someone has put Kevin Reynolds rarely seen Fandango (1985) up on YouTube. Kevin Costner’s first proper leading role too.
youtu.be/S2BOvrqowsE?...
youtu.be/S2BOvrqowsE?...
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#NowWatching #FilmSky
𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞 : 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞́ : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟓 : 𝟏𝟏𝟓𝐦
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣
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𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞: 𝘼𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨, 𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨.
𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞 : 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞́ : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟓 : 𝟏𝟏𝟓𝐦
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣
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𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞: 𝘼𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨, 𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨.
August 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#NowWatching #FilmSky
𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞 : 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞́ : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟓 : 𝟏𝟏𝟓𝐦
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣
tinyurl.com/4p6wepzu
𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞: 𝘼𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨, 𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨.
𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞 : 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞́ : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟓 : 𝟏𝟏𝟓𝐦
𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣
tinyurl.com/4p6wepzu
𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞: 𝘼𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨, 𝙍𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙛𝙞. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙜𝙪𝙮𝙨.
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NW: Remember My Name (1978)
July 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
NW: Remember My Name (1978)
Who lives in a house like this?
July 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Who lives in a house like this?