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
"a whole universe of untold depths and hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated": David Lynch’s inner-space odyssey ERASERHEAD (1977) screens 1.30pm today at BFI IMAX. My all-time favourite film... projectedfigures.com/2015/03/14/e...
Eraserhead (1977) - Projected Figures
unwrap this baby and discover untold depths & hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated. Eraserhead is freakish perfection.
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January 11, 2026 at 10:21 AM
"a whole universe of untold depths and hidden textures in which to become trapped, lost or sublimely elevated": David Lynch’s inner-space odyssey ERASERHEAD (1977) screens 1.30pm today at BFI IMAX. My all-time favourite film... projectedfigures.com/2015/03/14/e...
"These six unnerving slices of surrealism trace David Lynch’s development from unknown art student to internationally acclaimed director": THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH (1967-95) are screening noon today at NFT1, BFI Southbank, along with DUMBLAND (2002). projectedfigures.com/2025/03/20/t...
The Short Films of David Lynch (1967-95) - Projected Figures
THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH offer six unnervingly surreal slices of an unknown artist's emergence as internationally acclaimed director
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January 11, 2026 at 9:49 AM
"These six unnerving slices of surrealism trace David Lynch’s development from unknown art student to internationally acclaimed director": THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH (1967-95) are screening noon today at NFT1, BFI Southbank, along with DUMBLAND (2002). projectedfigures.com/2025/03/20/t...
"puts Keanu Reeves through hell while tracking the consequences of film noir's predilection for heavy smoking": Francis Lawrence's diabolical comicbook adaptation CONSTANTINE (2025)
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Francis Lawrence's diabolical CONSTANTINE puts Keanu Reeves through hell while tracking the consequences of film noir's heavy smoking
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January 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
"puts Keanu Reeves through hell while tracking the consequences of film noir's predilection for heavy smoking": Francis Lawrence's diabolical comicbook adaptation CONSTANTINE (2025)
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One of the things that saddens me about AI (apart from everything else) is that perfectly good individual items of vocabulary ("delve") and even syntactic formulae ("This is not [x]. This is [y]".) can no longer be used, because they make your words sound as though they have been computer-generated
January 10, 2026 at 10:34 AM
One of the things that saddens me about AI (apart from everything else) is that perfectly good individual items of vocabulary ("delve") and even syntactic formulae ("This is not [x]. This is [y]".) can no longer be used, because they make your words sound as though they have been computer-generated
A tale of two sisters: in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's dreamily elliptical elegy LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (2004), "death is interrupted and love deferred". Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/10/l...
Last Life in the Universe (Ruang rak noi nid mahasan) (2004) - Projected Figures
A tale of two sisters: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's dreamily elliptical elegy LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE shows death interrupted and love deferred
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January 10, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A tale of two sisters: in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's dreamily elliptical elegy LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (2004), "death is interrupted and love deferred". Recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/10/l...
"blends suburban hyperreality with mythic journey to show that the more you change, the more you stay the same": Todd Solondz’s dark American dream PALINDROMES (2004). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/10/p...
Palindromes (2004) - Projected Figures
Todd Solondz's PALINDROMES blends suburban hyperreality with mythic journey to show that the more you change, the more you stay the same
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January 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"blends suburban hyperreality with mythic journey to show that the more you change, the more you stay the same": Todd Solondz’s dark American dream PALINDROMES (2004). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/10/p...
Magic, madness, metempsychosis: David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) "mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown". Screens 2pm today at NFT4, BFI Southbank. projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...
INLAND EMPIRE (2006) - Projected Figures
David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE a self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness, mesmerising in its overlapping Tinseltown stories
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January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Magic, madness, metempsychosis: David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) "mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown". Screens 2pm today at NFT4, BFI Southbank. projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...
is he dead yet?
January 10, 2026 at 8:17 AM
is he dead yet?
I’ve had it up to here with height limits
January 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’ve had it up to here with height limits
as well as everything else, he remains a rapist and a paedophile
January 9, 2026 at 12:19 PM
as well as everything else, he remains a rapist and a paedophile
My (highly fashionable!) crocs-and-socks combination just came a cropper in a puddle, and my feet are now wet. Really the only thing that I wear well is my klutziness.
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
My (highly fashionable!) crocs-and-socks combination just came a cropper in a puddle, and my feet are now wet. Really the only thing that I wear well is my klutziness.
"an agoraphobic man goes on a gamified, internalised adventure through his life’s losses": @albertbirney.bsky.social’s monochrome DIY fantasia OBEX (2025) is in US theatres from today via Oscilloscope. projectedfigures.com/2025/10/30/o...
OBEX (2025) - Projected Figures
In Albert Birney's monochrome DIY fantasia OBEX, an agoraphobic man goes on a gamified, internalised adventure through his life's losses
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January 9, 2026 at 8:13 AM
"an agoraphobic man goes on a gamified, internalised adventure through his life’s losses": @albertbirney.bsky.social’s monochrome DIY fantasia OBEX (2025) is in US theatres from today via Oscilloscope. projectedfigures.com/2025/10/30/o...
You are here now: David Lynch’s crudely animated (and eerily prophetic) nightmare sit-com series DUMBLAND (2002) "holds an ugly mirror to American idiocy in all its cruel philistinism and rapacity". projectedfigures.com/2026/01/09/d...
Dumbland (2002) - Projected Figures
David Lynch's crudely animated sit-com series DUMBLAND holds an ugly mirror to American idiocy in all its cruel philistinism and rapacity
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January 9, 2026 at 7:34 AM
You are here now: David Lynch’s crudely animated (and eerily prophetic) nightmare sit-com series DUMBLAND (2002) "holds an ugly mirror to American idiocy in all its cruel philistinism and rapacity". projectedfigures.com/2026/01/09/d...
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
"finds its monsters mythic and its humans wanting": @realgdt.bsky.social’s superior super(anti)heroic ensemble sequel HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (2008). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/08/h...
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) - Projected Figures
Guillermo del Toro's superior super-antiheroic ensemble sequel HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY finds its monsters mythic and its humans wanting
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January 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM
"finds its monsters mythic and its humans wanting": @realgdt.bsky.social’s superior super(anti)heroic ensemble sequel HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (2008). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/08/h...
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FYI:
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
FYI:
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
when people say that the plot of RAIDERS… would end in the same place without Indy’s interventions, I would ask them to consider how dull the film would be with Indy entirely excised, and I would further argue that scenes of Nazis being punched have intrinsic value beyond the greater narrative ‘ark’
January 7, 2026 at 9:11 AM
when people say that the plot of RAIDERS… would end in the same place without Indy’s interventions, I would ask them to consider how dull the film would be with Indy entirely excised, and I would further argue that scenes of Nazis being punched have intrinsic value beyond the greater narrative ‘ark’
"pits an ensemble of antiheroes against the ever-resurgent forces of fascism": Guillermo del Toro’s spectacular Mignola adaptation HELLBOY (2024). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/07/h...
Hellboy (2004) - Projected Figures
Guillermo del Toro's spectacular Mignola adaptation HELLBOY pits an ensemble of antiheroes against the ever-resurgent forces of fascism
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January 7, 2026 at 8:09 AM
"pits an ensemble of antiheroes against the ever-resurgent forces of fascism": Guillermo del Toro’s spectacular Mignola adaptation HELLBOY (2024). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/07/h...
"a New Zealand commando uncovers a satanic SS plot on the eve of D-Day": in Paul Campion’s feature debut THE DEVIL'S ROCK (2011), the hell of war corrupts all sides. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/07/t...
The Devil's Rock (2011) - Projected Figures
War is hell: in Paul Campion's feature debut THE DEVIL'S ROCK, a New Zealand commando uncovers a satanic SS plot on the eve of D-Day.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:44 AM
"a New Zealand commando uncovers a satanic SS plot on the eve of D-Day": in Paul Campion’s feature debut THE DEVIL'S ROCK (2011), the hell of war corrupts all sides. projectedfigures.com/2026/01/07/t...
R.I.P. Béla Tarr projectedfigures.com/2022/04/26/w...
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmóniák) (2000) - Projected Figures
Something wicked this way comes in Béla Tarr's WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES, as a travelling circus exhibit unsettles a town's cosmic order
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January 6, 2026 at 12:37 PM
R.I.P. Béla Tarr projectedfigures.com/2022/04/26/w...
back in the Bod all this week for my other job
January 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
back in the Bod all this week for my other job
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Ngl it would be funny if in Maduro’s trial he said “your Supreme Court gave total immunity to presidents and I’m a president.”
January 5, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Ngl it would be funny if in Maduro’s trial he said “your Supreme Court gave total immunity to presidents and I’m a president.”
"a complicated lament for values abandoned and children betrayed, leaving little room for indifference": Tony Kaye’s kaleidoscopic drama of education and alienation DETACHMENT (2011). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/05/d...
Detachment (2012) - Projected Figures
Tony Kaye's kaleidoscopic drama of education and alienation DETACHMENT leaves little room for indifference.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:52 AM
"a complicated lament for values abandoned and children betrayed, leaving little room for indifference": Tony Kaye’s kaleidoscopic drama of education and alienation DETACHMENT (2011). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/05/d...
Haute-couture whodunnit: in Mario Bava's ur-giallo BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) the "focus always remains on the dreamy mood and elegant design that create so many fashion victims". On @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Canada) from today. projectedfigures.com/2015/03/06/g...
January 5, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Haute-couture whodunnit: in Mario Bava's ur-giallo BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) the "focus always remains on the dreamy mood and elegant design that create so many fashion victims". On @arrowplayer.bsky.social (US/Canada) from today. projectedfigures.com/2015/03/06/g...