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Tony McKiver
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Writer. Bits and pieces, here and there.
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THE DEAD 🌨️ January 6th.

The IFI has partnered with @screenireland on a unique five-year archiving project to catalogue, digitise and exhibit Ireland's film heritage. We are proud to present this brand-new restoration of John Huston's THE DEAD as part of this initiative.

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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I wrote about The Insider
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October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Coming to @ohmpods.bsky.social Feb 1 - 2026 #TheMinsider
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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How a Democracy for Sale story about US Christian Right funding prompted a @nytimes.com investigation into the links between Nigel Farage, Reform UK and the Alliance Defending Freedom.

So good to speak to the peerless Jane Bradley:

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Nigel Farage and the foreign influence threat
How US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform, and why we need to talk about Russian influence, with the New York Times’ Jane Bradley.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I learned about Sports Thumb Jim Gavin dropping out of the Irish Presidential election from @tupped.bsky.social's The Gist this morning and I owe it to you to share this relevant passage, which got my week off to a great start:
The Long Game Imagine you are a tenant, in the worst financial crash in living memory, and you discover that over three thousand of your very precious and irreplaceable euros have been sent by your idiot bank to your previous landlord. And then he won't give them back. Not then, but also, not later either. He just keeps the money, because that is how Irish private landlords behave. You pay a deposit to a landlord and then they try anything on to refuse to give it back. Now imagine you spend the next 16 years seething every time that landlord appears on the TV, being fêted for his sporting triumphs, receiving state appointments and still never giving you your money. And now, and I invite you to imagine this in full 8k Hi-Def Surround Sound, imagine seeing that guy announce he was running to be President and realising you were going to tell your story and End It.
October 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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#MusicChallenge
#MotherNatureSong

Day 15

Seamus Ennis 🇮🇪 - The Bonnie Bunch Of Roses (1959). A classic jar o’ Irish story-singing, with a little bit of love for Napoleon thrown in for good measure.

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Seamus Ennis - The Bonnie Bunch of Roses-O
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September 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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For the evening crowd.
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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FFC review: THE LONG WALK, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/the-...
The Long Walk (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
**½/****starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, Mark Hamillscreenplay by JT Mollner, based on the book by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachmandirected by Francis Lawrence by Walter...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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an A.I. Elvis Presley stars in Nick Cave's new music video for the Bad Seeds classic, "Tupelo," directed by Blonde maestro Andrew Dominik

i wrote about this beautiful monstrosity for my newsletter
Tupelo Uncanny
A few words about desecration
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July 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Sexy Beast at 25
My piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

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What makes Sexy Beast so good?
The great British gangster movie turns 25
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August 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This piece by Corey Atad is great.
coreyatad.com Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · Jul 30
an A.I. Elvis Presley stars in Nick Cave's new music video for the Bad Seeds classic, "Tupelo," directed by Blonde maestro Andrew Dominik

i wrote about this beautiful monstrosity for my newsletter
Tupelo Uncanny
A few words about desecration
www.justatad.xyz
August 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Happy Publication Day to Me

Darkness Visible the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer is available from the publisher at the lowest price £16 in the UK or $18 US

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Darkness Visible: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer - Sticking Place Books
John Bleasdale Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin ...
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July 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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C&B has been dying a slow death for months, and it seems that no one cares.

Support articles like the one below; soon they won't be anywhere on the internet.

If you want C&B to survive, now’s the time to show it: cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/
cinephiliabeyond.org Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · Jun 25
GOLD!

Unveiling Ridley Scott’s Cinematic Grail:
‘The Illustrated Blade Runner’

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June 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🖤 52 years ago, The Friends of Eddie Coyle quietly redefined American crime cinema.

We revisit Yates’ understated masterpiece, Mitchum’s haunting performance, and the gritty realism that redefined the crime genre.

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‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ at 52: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle • Cinephilia & Beyond
The Friends of Eddie Coyle poster art by Tony Stella By Sven Mikulec Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, f...
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June 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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43 years ago today, John Carpenter’s THE THING hit theaters—and was instantly rejected.

Now? It's untouchable.

A brutal, brilliant, paranoid descent into isolation and identity.
Sci-fi horror reborn in fire and frost.

Read how it rose from the ice:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/john-carpent...
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’: The Story of an SF Horror Game-Changer • Cinephilia & Beyond
The Thing poster art by Christopher Shy By Sven Mikulec I mean, the whole point of the monster is to be monstrous, to be repellent. That’s what makes you sidewith the human beings. I didn’t have a pro...
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June 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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#ColorTheMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 25.

Blue and Grey Shirt, by Mark Eitzel.

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Blue and Grey Shirt (Live)
YouTube video by Mark Eitzel - Topic
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June 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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I’m really proud of this interview with DoPs Fredrick Elmes and Peter Deming who together filmed half of David Lynch’s work. variety.com/2025/artisan...
Cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Peter Deming on Working With David Lynch and How His Unrealized Project Might Become a Book
Cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Peter Deming discussed working with David Lynch at the Italian Global Series Festival.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Talking with David Lynch’s cinematographers. The legendary Fredrick Elmes and Peter Deming. In Rimini.
June 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The latest from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the team is an absolute doozy - well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
The curious case of Britain’s nightlife lobbyist-in-chief
Dr Michael Kill says he’s a UN rep, a university dean and that his lobby group represents major music industry players. But the facts — and the institutions — are far less convincing.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Galifreyan bastard!
June 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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And there it is. The special relationship
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I drew this years ago when we first found out about the 796 #TuamBabies
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Saw this today. It was as powerful as it was 30 years ago.
lighthousecinema.bsky.social Light House Cinema @lighthousecinema.bsky.social · Jun 3
"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."

Michael Mann's HEAT celebrates its 30th anniversay this weekend at Light House.

Pre-booking is advised:
www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/heat-30...
June 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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#Top20BookendAlbums
#MusicChallenge

5. California, by American Music Club.

Firefly
Last Harbour

Classic AMC album. Starting with one of Eitzel’s ‘big’ songs, and finishing with one of his most devastating. “Falling…I don’t see the bottom”

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June 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Novelist and writer Jarett Kobek comes to Writers on Film to talk the Zodiac, Kenneth Anger and Invocation of My Demon Brother

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Jarett Kobek invokes his Demon Brother
Writers on Film · Episode
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June 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM