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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 33m

I think it is fair to say that pretty much ever biopic about a living star/icon is over conceptualised. It is its own genre of film now as we mine the past to make up for the future we increasingly can’t conceptualise

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 36m

I laughed but l also despair

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 39m

Okay. Thanks

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 40m

Right, okay. But why a frog?

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 42m

Can someone explain this frog/people in frog suits meme that is going around?

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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 1h

Somewhere on this globe it is still Elmore Leonard’s 100th birthday. Many happy returns to the ‘poet laureate of wild assholes with revolvers’ as the NME, (I think) called him. Away for a fortnight & before I knew it was his centenary 6 of the 12 books I packed were his.

Glitz, Bandits, 52 Pick Up & Gunsights, all in paperback, all by Mr Elmore Leonard.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 1d

Are you in Berlin at the moment?

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 2d

I have this book. It is stunning

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 2d

1970s Australian true crime magazine cover aesthetics

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit, this DVD box set thing is getting out of control in the best way possible. Having just watched not so good copies of two out of three of these films, this is a box set l would love to have.

secondrun.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW RELEASE - 24 NOV. ISTVÁN SZABÓ:
MEPHISTO / COLONEL REDL / HANUSSEN
LE 3-disc Blu-ray Set. 4K restorations, released for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Special pre-order discount price £37.99 at our webstore: tinyurl.com/8n2mvttm
Amazon UK tinyurl.com/4bckyaa2

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 2d

1970s Australian true crime magazine cover aesthetics

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 3d

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Vincent Di Fate, 1976; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for Children of Dune. Two figures approach a small town in the desert of Arrakis.

Cover for Destination: Void. Two figures float next to a huge brain inside of a spaceship

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit, this DVD box set thing is getting out of control in the best way possible. Having just watched not so good copies of two out of three of these films, this is a box set l would love to have.

secondrun.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW RELEASE - 24 NOV. ISTVÁN SZABÓ:
MEPHISTO / COLONEL REDL / HANUSSEN
LE 3-disc Blu-ray Set. 4K restorations, released for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Special pre-order discount price £37.99 at our webstore: tinyurl.com/8n2mvttm
Amazon UK tinyurl.com/4bckyaa2

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

More 1970s Australian horror comics.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

Britain was hugely influential in the creation of the new wave of science fiction. But unlike America, virtually none of these texts made it to the screen. THE FINAL PROGRAMME is one of the very few exceptions.

Art & Hue @artandhue.bsky.social · 4d

The sci-fi film "The Final Programme" opened on this day in 1973 at the ABC 2 Edgware cinema in London. artandhue.com/scifi

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 4d

10/7/71: The French Connection (D Friedkin/DP Roizman)
w/Hackman, Scheider, Rey
More:
@pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/50-years-rea...
@kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-french-c...
We favor, but @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social w/must-read dissent: www.slantmagazine.com/film/caveman...

Caveman Valentines: The French Connection, Dirty Harry, & Straw Dogs - Slant Magazine

Straw Dogs is about man’s quest to identify himself as masculine through the self-actualizing power of violence.

www.slantmagazine.com

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

It’s nasty but good.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

🔥👇

Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 4d

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

Certainly in the 1970s & 1980s. Yeah, there are a smattering of others but v few

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

Britain was hugely influential in the creation of the new wave of science fiction. But unlike America, virtually none of these texts made it to the screen. THE FINAL PROGRAMME is one of the very few exceptions.

Art & Hue @artandhue.bsky.social · 4d

The sci-fi film "The Final Programme" opened on this day in 1973 at the ABC 2 Edgware cinema in London. artandhue.com/scifi

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

More 1970s Australian horror comics.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

Evergreen post

Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · Sep 23

Today’s object of cultural obsession. Great film as well. Not my copy and I would be curious if anyone has read it.

Cover of David Craig’s novel, THE SQUEEZE

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 6d

“Who knows the ways of the human heart?”

Last night l watched Neil Jordan’s THE CRYING GAME for the 4th or 5th time (?). A lot of great performances in it but, for me, Jim Broadbent’s character steals the film, despite having very little to do. This line, in particular, l think about all the time

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 4d

Sick of them, too.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 6d

Kind of bored with Mark Gatiss now.

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