Andrew Nette
@pulpcurry.bsky.social
“It’s worse than death in the mines. you want them to sing opera as well?” Award winning author of fiction & non-fiction, pulp scholar, bibliophile, noir aficionado. Currently living in Berlin.
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Helmut Käutner's Black Gravel and the lost decade of German cinema
I have written previously here about my love for German director Helmut Käutner’s 1961 noir, Schwarzer Kies, or translated into English, Black Gravel. It is without doubt my favourite German noir and ...
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A special #Noirvember themed missive on my Substack today. A few thoughts on my favourite German noir - and one of my favourite late film noirs generally - Helmut Kautner's 1961 film, BLACK GRAVEL.
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A stylish Caine movie I wasn’t aware of. boxd.it/bQt3kH (Props to @pulpcurry.bsky.social for alerting me to it) #amwatching #film
A ★★★½ review of Play Dirty (1969)
Michael Caine looks great in a designer Italian army uniform in this thoroughly British homage to ‘The Dirty Dozen’ (plotwise). From the off, you’ll be struck by the fabulous cinematography. A wartime...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A stylish Caine movie I wasn’t aware of. boxd.it/bQt3kH (Props to @pulpcurry.bsky.social for alerting me to it) #amwatching #film
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My second time cohosting on the @projectionbooth.bsky.social podcast this #noirvember, James B. Harris’s COP (1988).
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
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And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
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Episodee 774: Cop (1988)
Mike, Andrew Nette, and Rod Lott dig into Cop (1988), James B. Harris’s raw James Ellroy adaptation starring a ferocious James Woods.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My second time cohosting on the @projectionbooth.bsky.social podcast this #noirvember, James B. Harris’s COP (1988).
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
I never met Udo Kier.
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I never met Udo Kier.
My second time cohosting on the @projectionbooth.bsky.social podcast this #noirvember, James B. Harris’s COP (1988).
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
Episodee 774: Cop (1988)
Mike, Andrew Nette, and Rod Lott dig into Cop (1988), James B. Harris’s raw James Ellroy adaptation starring a ferocious James Woods.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My second time cohosting on the @projectionbooth.bsky.social podcast this #noirvember, James B. Harris’s COP (1988).
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
And, yes, I still think it is the most faithful and Ellroyesque adaptation of James Ellroy’s work to appear on the screen so far.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2025/11/epis...
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A very tasty deal.
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• The Final Programme [2-Disc 4K UHD w/LE Rigid Slipcase]
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds Paperback
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A very tasty deal.
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THE FUTURE IS CANCELLED! Check out this cool bundle you can get with the @severinfilms.bsky.social blu ray/UHD of THE FINAL PROGRAMME plus @pulpcurry.bsky.social + Iain McIntyre's essential Radical SF lit companion DANGEROUS VISIONS AND NEW WORLDS - Black Friday at severinfilms.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
THE FUTURE IS CANCELLED! Check out this cool bundle you can get with the @severinfilms.bsky.social blu ray/UHD of THE FINAL PROGRAMME plus @pulpcurry.bsky.social + Iain McIntyre's essential Radical SF lit companion DANGEROUS VISIONS AND NEW WORLDS - Black Friday at severinfilms.com
A very tasty deal.
***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY MERCH ALERT***
THE FUTURE IS CANCELLED! BUNDLE
Bundle Contents:
• The Final Programme [2-Disc 4K UHD w/LE Rigid Slipcase]
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds Paperback
THE FUTURE IS CANCELLED! BUNDLE
Bundle Contents:
• The Final Programme [2-Disc 4K UHD w/LE Rigid Slipcase]
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds Paperback
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A very tasty deal.
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#Noirvember podcast - Talked with Mike White and Andrew Nette about John Boorman, Richard Stark/Donald Westlake and Lee Marvin for this @projectionbooth.bsky.social episode on POINT BLANK www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2021/11/epis...
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Episode 546: Point Blank (1967)
Noirvember 2021 continues with a look at John Boorman’s POINT BLANK. Released in 1967, the film was based on the 1962 novel by Donald Westlake.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#Noirvember podcast - Talked with Mike White and Andrew Nette about John Boorman, Richard Stark/Donald Westlake and Lee Marvin for this @projectionbooth.bsky.social episode on POINT BLANK www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2021/11/epis...
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love ...
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love ...
ESCAPE FROM ABSOLOM was one of three VHS tapes l owned while l was living in Hanoi in the mid-1990s. It got watched. A lot. Great to see it being released, including booklet essays by @brndnstrssng.bsky.social & @maybejed.bsky.social
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No Escape AKA Escape from Absolom (1994) 4K & Blu-ray Collector's Edit
A remote jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. For most, Absolom means no escape, no hope and virtually no chance of survival. Marine Captain John Robbins (Ray Liotta, Sin City:...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
ESCAPE FROM ABSOLOM was one of three VHS tapes l owned while l was living in Hanoi in the mid-1990s. It got watched. A lot. Great to see it being released, including booklet essays by @brndnstrssng.bsky.social & @maybejed.bsky.social
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love ...
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love ...
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Terry Harknett wrote over 200 novels, many of them for New English Library. 61 of them (!) were about the western antihero, Edge, who first appeared in 1972.
I’m guessing this series was inspired by Terry writing the belated novelisation of A Fistful of Dollars (for Tandem Books) that same year.
I’m guessing this series was inspired by Terry writing the belated novelisation of A Fistful of Dollars (for Tandem Books) that same year.
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Tschau Udo Kier, the ultimate cult movie star.
So many great, unique performances, but his prissy, petty, whiny Dracula may be my absolute favourite rendition of the character ever.
It's certainly the most fun.
And what a beauty he was, truly.
So many great, unique performances, but his prissy, petty, whiny Dracula may be my absolute favourite rendition of the character ever.
It's certainly the most fun.
And what a beauty he was, truly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Tschau Udo Kier, the ultimate cult movie star.
So many great, unique performances, but his prissy, petty, whiny Dracula may be my absolute favourite rendition of the character ever.
It's certainly the most fun.
And what a beauty he was, truly.
So many great, unique performances, but his prissy, petty, whiny Dracula may be my absolute favourite rendition of the character ever.
It's certainly the most fun.
And what a beauty he was, truly.
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It snowed overnight in Berlin to mark Udo’s passing 💔
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It snowed overnight in Berlin to mark Udo’s passing 💔
It snowed overnight in Berlin to mark Udo’s passing 💔
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It snowed overnight in Berlin to mark Udo’s passing 💔
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Great little essay. Linking it here since you were too modest.
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My favourite Michael Caine film
And, no, it's not Get Carter
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November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Great little essay. Linking it here since you were too modest.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Maybe others but also me. Absolutely. I wrote about it on my Substack a while ago. My favourite Michael Caine performance and such a great late 1960s revisionist song war film
Which of you sweet bastards recommended Play Dirty (1969) to me? @pulpcurry.bsky.social ? It was incredible. Glad it's getting a re-appraisal. Nasty, though!
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Maybe others but also me. Absolutely. I wrote about it on my Substack a while ago. My favourite Michael Caine performance and such a great late 1960s revisionist song war film
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"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
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Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany | The Quietus
At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
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this is how I post
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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If you mixed DUEL (1971) with THE STORY OF O (1975) and KALIFORNIA (1993) you would have something approaching
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you mixed DUEL (1971) with THE STORY OF O (1975) and KALIFORNIA (1993) you would have something approaching
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
Have you seen this @breakfastruins.bsky.social ?
Great to contribute a commentary to this extraordinary @severinfilms.bsky.social release of Robert Fuest‘s THE FINAL PROGRAMME (1973). Although Britain was crucial to the new wave SF movement in the late 1960s/early 1970s very few of these texts made it to the screen. This was one of the exceptions
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THE FINAL PROGRAMME
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
TWO DISC COLLECTION
WITH 6+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING THE FIRST-EVER HOME VIDEO PARTICIPATION OF MICHAEL MOORCOCK
THE FINAL PROGRAMME
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE
TWO DISC COLLECTION
WITH 6+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING THE FIRST-EVER HOME VIDEO PARTICIPATION OF MICHAEL MOORCOCK
November 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Have you seen this @breakfastruins.bsky.social ?
If you mixed DUEL (1971) with THE STORY OF O (1975) and KALIFORNIA (1993) you would have something approaching
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you mixed DUEL (1971) with THE STORY OF O (1975) and KALIFORNIA (1993) you would have something approaching
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
Pasquale Festa Campanile's 1977 exploitation shocker, HITCH HIKE. This film is bat shit crazy in the best way possible. No notes.
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Christ, but this felt overwrought.
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Christ, but this felt overwrought.
Christ, but this felt overwrought.
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Christ, but this felt overwrought.