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Chris

@staggerlee42.bsky.social

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Love cinema, literature, music and art. Write occasionally about cinema. Married with two kids. Originally from Greater Manchester/Cheshire. Now based in Northern Ireland. Teacher of History and Politics. Degree, PGCE and MA Ed from University of Durham.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 3d

My top 6 horrors (VERY loosely defined in my list as macabre and existential 🤣) that you might not have seen for Halloween:

A Page of Madness (26)
Wisconsin Death Trip (99)
The Turin Horse (2011)
Images (72)
The Cremator (69)
Knife + Heart (2018) #FilmSky

Rob T @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 3d

My top 6 horrors that you might not have seen for Halloween:

Variola Vera (82): Yugoslav pandemic nightmare
The Ear (69): Czech paranoia banger
Blood & Roses (60): Riff on Carmilla
Sauna (08): Finnish medievalism
Dark Waters (93): Italy, Lovecraftian nuns
Sole Survivor (83): Proto Final Destination

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · 3d

My top 6 (shut up, it's my list) horrors that you might not have seen for Halloween:

Eye Of The Devil (1966)
I Saw The TV Glow (2024)
House of Mortal Sin (1976)
All You Need Is Death (2023)
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Taste Of Fear (1961)

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 10h

Those colour tints!!! 😍😍😍 #FilmSky

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A ★★★½ review of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Love those colour tints that are homages to silent cinema’s heyday! As far as the budget allows, this carries the spirit (if not the letter) of Poe. Forgive the cardboard cutout protagonists (bar Pric...

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 12h

Finally got to this and it was pretty damn good. Punch Drunk Love. Uncut Gems. And The Meyerowitz Stories. Adam Sandler can act!!!! #FilmSky

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A ★★★★ review of The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

I liked this very much, mainly for the wonderfully touching, funny and faintly melancholic screenplay and some adroit performances (Adam Sandler proving, yet again, that he has serious acting chops). ...

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Louise @louiseann.bsky.social · 16h

Back on the Internet airways again tomorrow with some rustic radio stuff. I might be a bit shit, but the music will be good. Link for catcher uppers on Monday www.lovewillsavetheday.fm

Some Masonic Hall action to plug my wee radio thing. Sat 11/10/25 @3pm on Love Will Save The Day

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 15h

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
#FilmSky

My last four films on Letterboxd - Halloween, The House That Dripped Blood, Far From Heaven, One Battle After Another.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 23h

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, I am VERY jealous!!!
Although, afterwards, I would probably be like…

a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and a tie

Alt: a man with a mustache is wearing a striped shirt and a tie

media.tenor.com

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Kedwondo @kedwondo.bsky.social · 1d

Song of the week for me…
Factory Floor - “Tell Me”
#sotw

Tell Me - XL

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an absolute cracker!!!

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

🤣I was not best pleased with him but he assures me that no idiocy was involved. As my colleagues are leading the trip, I can only hope that he is telling me the truth! 😬

Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

The boyo is in Berlin on a school trip. Just got a call from him, asking me to message the teacher because somebody has locked themselves in the bathroom.
#FreeTheBerlinOne 🤣😬

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Darrell Clem @darrellclem.bsky.social · 1d

My top 6 horrors (that come to mind) that you might not have seen for Halloween:

Session 9 (2001)
Dementia 13 (1963)
Wind Chill (2007)
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971)
Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960, terrifying if not horror in the strictest sense)

Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 3d

Rob T @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 3d

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

I preface this by saying that the choice made was a very fine choice and one that I applaud.
However, if it was going to be somebody else…

Thomas Pynchon?
Agustin Fernandez Mallo?

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! But that is a clincher in my opinion… 👏👏👏

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Today on BBC Radio4: 'Song of the Deer' reimagines the monumental C18th Gaelic poem, 'Moladh Beinn Dobhrain' - 'In Praise of Ben Dorain' - a celebrated Munro in the Scottish Highlands - featuring my husband Garry MacKenzie's translation! 🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Multitrack, Song of the Deer

A mountain, a deer and a ghillie - a re-imagination of Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Watching this on Sunday as part of #LFF screenings in Belfast. The trailer is a bit Hollywood but the talent attached and the source novel make me optimistic that it will be 😍😍😍😍

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 1d

Watch the official trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal ✨

In theaters November 27 via @focusfeatures.bsky.social

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Found it! 🤣

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s book ‘Satantango’.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Yeesh, I can only imagine…

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Very often the case in a lot of early cinema (and Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’ too, I believe). I can understand it being a red line for some in terms of viewing.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it’s wonderful! Along with The Turin Horse, it’s my favourite Tarr film.

Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

Just found my copy of ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’ in my classroom. Such a good book (and I love the film adaptation, ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’ too). #BookSky💙📚

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s book ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’.

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 1d

It's a great day to remember how important a translator like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is for those of us who can only read in English.
Without her superb translations, we would have missed so much of the great work of László Krasznahorkai.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 1d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t doubt it! It is currently sitting on my shelf at home and this is a good spur to get to it… 👍

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 1d

I have only read ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’ (great novel) but I have seen Tarr&Krasznahorkai’s film adaptation of ‘Satantango’. A singular voice with a VERY blackly comic worldview…

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