Tonight at Waterstones Liverpool! Last few tickets at the link: www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

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Liverpool people! I’ll be in conversation with Saul Leslie next Tuesday 21st April about his fantastic debut novel at Waterstones Liverpool. Tickets on sale now at the link. All welcome!

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Underseen: Robert Altman's California Split (1974) This is the first in an occasional series, ‘Underseen’, which looks at films that aren’t easily available or on physical media.

Wrote on an underseen classic, Robert Altman’s California Split (1974): open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

A Few Small Beers with Pynchon: On One Battle After Another If you put Paul Thomas Anderson’s films alongside each other you’d have a shadow history of California.

I wrote about Best Picture Oscar winner One Battle After Another open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

The new issue of Death Kit features an extract, "Skull", from a novel I'm currently working on.
Death Kit have done such a phenomenal job on this - the whole issue looks fantastic. You can get it at https:// deathkitcom.wordpress.com/86-2/ where you can subscribe (1 year/4 issue £10/£7.50)

Thanks Keith!

The Silence of the Lambs at 35 March 30th, 1992: The 64th Oscars ceremony is underway in Los Angeles.

Wrote on the complicated legacies of Silence of the Lambs at 35: davidhering.substack.com/p/the-silenc...

Absolutely loved 28YL: The Bone Temple. Thought it was more focused and intelligent than its predecessor- not afraid to breathe and let the viewer think. Preferred the stillness of this to Boyle’s manic style. And there’s a proper hootin’ and hollerin’-worthy set piece late on

Smooth Talk (1985): Thought this was excellent. A remarkable evocation of teenage life that turns abruptly into something much darker. Laura Dern has been great since day one

Films of the Year 2025 2025 was an incredible year for cinema.

I wrote about my favourite films of 2025: open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

The First Annual 'Notes from..." Movie Awards It’s nearing the end of an excellent year for cinema.

Later this month, I’ll be writing about my films of 2025. But first, the arguably more important first annual Notes from the End of Cinema Movie Awards (or NECMAs), which are very serious and not in any way an opportunity for cheap laughs and jibes:

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Hamnet Hamnet is impeccably tasteful, the interiors exquisitely and naturally lit and the exteriors strikingly framed, but this tastefulness grows wearying, even stultifying.

For Reverse Shot I reviewed the deeply frustrating Hamnet, a film simultaneously overawed by Shakespeare and totally uninterested in him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/3399/hamnet

Peter Watkins: An Appreciation Britain doesn’t appreciate its boldest filmmakers.

I wrote a brief appreciation of the late Peter Watkins: davidhering.substack.com/p/peter-watk...

A Halloween special post from Notes From The End Of Cinema about the time me and my friends made a horror film. You can read the post, and watch the film, at the link. Happy Halloween! open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

Halloween Special: 10 Horror films You Might Not Know Happy October!

A Halloween special from Notes from the End of Cinema - 10 Horror films you might not know

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A Few Small Beers with Pynchon: On One Battle After Another If you put Paul Thomas Anderson’s films alongside each other you’d have a shadow history of California.

I wrote on One Battle After Another, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson’s California

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World-Wide-Western: On Ari Aster’s Eddington The internet is uncinematic.

I wrote on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with a Western open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

60s Scott Walker:
Baby take it easy now/I miss your sweet caress and how!

70s Scott Walker:
The boulevards are rushing by, mon frere/With ennui and some despair

00s Scott Walker: Locust/Locust/Disease [sound of Mickey Mouse being tortured in a Bolivian jail]

Delighted that this article has been picked up by @criterion.bsky.social for The Daily www.criterion.com/current/post...

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

Enjoy this Rohmer talk and this picture of a Rohmer-esque lighthouse

The Five Point Battle | Gangs of New York | CLIP YouTube video by Boxoffice Movie Scenes

The editing in the film is frequently bizarre and choppy. It amazes me how the opening fight is so poorly edited that we get an intercut shot of DDL hacking off Liam Neeson’s arm when he’s nowhere near him (3:01 here): youtu.be/zJjEakixDtU?...

Two Paths for the Music Biopic: On Alex Ross Perry’s 'Pavements' I was once asked if there was a genre of movie that I disliked.

I wrote about Pavements and the current state of the Music Biopic

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Isles of Wonder: On Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later This piece contains major spoilers for 28 Years LaterThanks for reading Notes from the End of Cinema!

I wrote about 28 Years Later, a film which I struggled with but nevertheless found fascinating in its vision of contemporary Britain davidhering.substack.com/p/isles-of-w...

Thank you!

ANOTHER WORD FOR IT by David Hering The woman who wrote Beowulf considered it juvenilia. She composed it during the years she roamed close to the old hall, hearing the revelry, watching the fighting and fucking from the slippery dark ou...

I have a very short story out today in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and you can read it here: xraylitmag.com/another-word...

Tom Cruise’s Dance with Death On Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning

I wrote about Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise’s increasingly deranged career

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Correction: 7:45pm now!