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Dan Berlinka

@danberlinka.bsky.social
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Writer / director / coverer of waterfronts

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday I made my first trip to The Nickel Cinema to see 1981 curio Strange Behavior, a slasher-inflected B movie throwback. (There's a killer in a Tor Johnson mask.) Fitting that I passed the Scala on the way, as that's the spirit The Nickel self-consciously recreates. I'll definitely be back.
The former Scala cinema, seen from the top drck of a bus, stopped at a traffic light. The Nickel Cinema on Clerkenwell Rd, displaying a Scala-style calendar poster.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hell of an address
A red front door with the number 666
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hell of an address
A red front door with the number 666
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm always in the market for a Seinfeld clip (and Jason Alexander's "alright" at the end of the scene deserves an Emmy.) But the thing that excited me most was that I was able to spot a glimpse of Kim's Video (and it's not even in the right ratio!!) www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ck7...
A glimpse of legendary 1990s New York video store, Kim's Video.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Do I know anyone who wants a box of Sight and Sound Magazines from the 80s and 90s? Free to anyone who can collect them from East London in the next week or so. (Please message me if interested.)
A box of old Sight & Sound magazines
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Name a movie where the title character *isn’t* the main character.
Poster for The Thin Man (1934)
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
And that same Italian edition is available to buy on Abe Books. (I won't, but still it was fun chasing it down.) I Classici Della Magia Nera by Peter Haining: Buono (Good) rilegato (1971) | MULTI BOOK share.google/uAR1l2rn6u0O...
The cover of I Classici Della Magia Nera edited by Oeter Haining
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I was intrigued and it was easy enough to discover that it's the Italian edition of this anthology, "The Satanists":
A paperback copy of The Satanists, edited by Peter Haining.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
During Don't Torture A Duckling there's a portentous close up of this book:
A paperback copy of I Classici Della Magia Nera edited by Peter Haining.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Happy Mahler's birthday.
A black and white photo of composer Gustav Mahler.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A vampire who isn't Dracula.
Jon Amplas in Martin (1977, Romero). A young man drinks blood from a woman's wrist.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the angriest bag of vegetables I have ever seen.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Happy Duke Ellington's birthday.
A photo of Duke Ellington in a grey suit, sitting at a piano.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I liked this message so much that I took a picture with my smartphone so I could share it to social media.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Bogart's super stardom happening in real time. The Petrified Forest was released in 1936. Night and the City was published in 1938, three years before High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. Bogart is still a supporting actor (apart from in B movies.) But he's making enough impact to sell a shirt.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Gangs of Greek philosphers fight vicious turf wars in North London.
A "Plato" graffiti tag.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
First time I've seen one of these outside of a Chas & Dave song!
A page from Night and the City (1938) with the word "Gertcher" highlighted.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Me at the Hayward Gallery Chiharu Shiota exhibition, looking like a spy meeting a contact in an arty cold war thriller from the 60s.
A man in a hat and glasses looking off camera in front of many dangling red strings.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I don't know if they put it up specially, but this was a fitting poem to find here on International Women's Day.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My new screenwriting mantra:
Kareem from Subway Takes saying "scripts are for losers".
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Read a classic work of English literature without finding any antisemitism challenge: failed again.
"What do I want with half your estate? Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land?" (A quote from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I just finished Rusty Lake Paradise (on mobile) I think this is the 12th of these that I've played. Imagine a puzzle game written by David Lynch and designed by Edward Gorey. I absolutely love them.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hear me out... not White Lotus or Death of Stalin Jason Isaacs, but Cure for Wellness, The OA, and Look Away Jason Isaacs.
Jason Isaacs in A Cure For Wellness
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If you're in London between now and November 9th, there is a gorgeous *free* (and under advertised) Frankenstein exhibition at Selfridges. Costumes, designs, models, and first editions of the novel. (Thanks to mirror-lurking @johnnymains.co.uk for taking me there!) www.selfridges.com/GB/en/stores...
Model cadaver from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. Model of the monster from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. First edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Mirror selfie with Johnny Mains lurking.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Fridge magnet / matchbox combo. A timely Halloween gift. Thank you @johnnymains.co.uk
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I will not receive a better text than this today.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
💔
Diane Keaton in Love and Death
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Last night at the Proms I heard the Vienna Philharmonic play Bruckner 9. (Hearing the scherzo on Radio 3 first got me into him.) It was the 20th anniversary of my father's death. He tended to view Bruckner as a second best to Mahler, but I think he'd have enjoyed this performance as much as I did.
Interior of a sold out Royal Albert Hall as the Vienna Philharmonic take the stage for a Proms concert.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I'm reading Bleak House and I just got to this line, said by one of the most sympathetic characters in the novel. It doesn't change how I feel about the book, but I suppose what I found remarkable (compared to say the depiction of Fagin) is how casual and *un*remarkable a line like this is.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Delighted to finally meet @annebillson.bsky.social in person (after many little film chats on here and the previous place.) And I was so glad to be able to tell her how much her horror film reviews in Time Out meant to me at the time!
Me and Anne Billson having just met at a party.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The most on brand text from my wife ever:
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
<The Office "They're the same picture" meme>
Homeland security "Remember your Homeland's heritage" post with a picture of a pioneer couple holding a babyNazi propaganda showing a couple holding a baby
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
As it happens a friend's French punk band is touring the UK shortly...
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The reasons for the train delays have achieved a sort of nihilistic poetry.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Hooray for...
A Hapag-Lloyd freight train container.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I had a very similar response. (Also the test is quite US-centric. Felt like a *lot* of mac & cheese options.)
A food choice test result showing a pie chart with a fairly even "class" distribution of foods I like.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I finished Spent by Alison Bechdel. As with her other books, the joy is less in the (auto-fictional) story than in the characters. And the real treat is the reappearance of old friends from Dykes To Watch Out For. There's such a balance of humour and humanity in the writing and artwork. I loved it.
A panel from Spent by Alison Bechdel, showing Lois, Ginger, and Sparrow in their co-working space.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
RIP Pik-Sen Lim - she played Wei's Grandma Zhen in an episode of Lagging and gave an absolutely terrific comedy performance. We were very lucky to have her in the show.
Pik-Sen Lim and Yoni Bronks in an episode of CBBC's Lagging.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Bob Hoskins in the back of a car, accepting his fate at the end of The Long Good Friday.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Checked tfl. I think this is the first time I've ever seen this:
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When I first saw someone as socially well-adjusted as Eric Binford go to the cinema alone it gave me the courage to do so, too.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In anticipation of the upcoming film, I read The Long Walk, one of Stephen King's "Bachman Books". Whichever name he's writing under, he has such a gift for developing a simple (horrifying) idea through relatable characters you care about. And then there are breathtakingly prescient lines like this:
An extract from The Long Walk. The key bit is "... the rarest and most dangerous monster any nation can produce, a society-supported sociopath."
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I honestly thought for a second this was an ad for a box of Ikea tissues.
A box set of Michael Haneke movies.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Repost with a photo of seafront/shoreline/beach that you took.
The beach at Deal, Kent, with my shadow on the pebbles.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Mrs Bates' head from Psycho (at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris.)
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is me pretending to be an inquisitive child looking in an unattended pot on the stove, for an article in a German newspaper. (Sadly I don't have the cutting, only the original photo.)
A small child looking in an unattended pot on the stove
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wanted to speak to the manager. Was told I'd have to wait.
A shop called Godot & Fils
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
share some of the best eyes in movies
Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box (1929)
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Ok, I guess, impressive technology, but I'm not sure *why* they'd want this.
A weatherman standing in front of a map that appears to be labelled "Bris Detector".
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