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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Now that everyone is getting excited about the release of the uncut version of The Devils, here’s a photo of an original Spanish poster that I picked up a few years ago. I really should get it framed.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sadly an under seen film, but it’s hugely impressive, bold and resonant. It seems to be missing from most streaming services, at least in the UK, but it is on Amazon Prime.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Plus the news, not just an April Fool prank, that Near Dark will get a UHD release from @synapsefilms. I can soon retire my DVD. So three of my most wished for releases are on the horizon.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

First we get the very welcome news that THE DEVILS full cut is coming out via BFI and Warners. And now LAST SUMMER is announced on blu ray. It’s an amazing and unsettling film from Frank and Eleanor Perry, the couple behind The Swimmer, that many thought would never get released.

Last Summer but Ray cover from Warner Archive

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani interviewed by Peter Strickland this evening at the @princecharlescinema.com. My second viewing of Reflections in a Dead Diamond and I saw so much more detail and meaning this time. A female Diabolik laced with hints of Death in Venice. Brilliant fun.

The directors at a screening of Reflection in a Dead Diamond

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A cast reunion for MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD. Today’s BFI IMAX screening of the new 4K restoration was thrilling. Such a good film.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Laura Dern this evening at the bfi introducing David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE on what would have been his 80th birthday. She came across so very positive and sweet, with fond memories of working with Lynch. The first time I’ve seen it on the big screen in 19 years.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Everything is made from glass in this lovely 12 minute short animation from Karel Zeman, who later made the astonishing The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. Available for a week from Le Cinema Club. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

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INSPIRATION a film by KAREL ZEMAN.

A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Thanks for the reference. I agree, it’s hardly Bergman’s finest work, a curio really.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

At 90 years old, Peter Watkins death yesterday was hardly unexpected but it’s still sad that such an astonishing and bold film maker is still on the margins in our culture. His intelligent, often challenging and innovative films are unique. Here’s an obit: www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

Collection of blu rays and dvds of Peter Watkins’ films

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Andrew an interesting critic with a deep knowledge of horror so this should be good.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

For the past few years, I've been enjoying some of the film courses by Matthew Asprey-Gear. There's a couple coming up. The Latin American cinema has a lot of underseen gems. From 13th September: matthewasprey2.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/o...

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Online course: A Panorama of Latin American Cinema (starting September 13)

A 12-WEEK ONLINE FILM STUDIES COURSE(September – December, 2025) This original film studies course, presented online via Google Meet, will give a comprehensive survey of the best of Latin America…

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A thrill to meet Alex Cox and Nick Freand Jones after an event discussing Moviedrome, the BBC film programming that turned me on to the weird and wonderful in cinema. I even found my old Moviedrome booklets and got them signed!

Signed by Nick Freand Jones and Alex Cox

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead at the Royal Albert Hall complete with London Philharmonic Orchestra was brilliant. Lots of tie dyes in the audience. The only performance in Europe.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Here’s hoping this year’s Grateful Dead Meet Up At The Movies returns to the UK. Picturehouse did a great job hosting the last two. You can sign up for updates here: www.meetupatthemovies.com

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The Grateful Dead Movie

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

David Cronenberg’s THE SHROUDS is surprisingly effective as both a personal meditation on grief and also an almost absurdist comedy. Like the best of speculative sci fi, it’s a reflection of contemporary concerns, and is very much a film about ideas.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This nugget says a lot: “in keeping with its idiosyncratic way of operating, they’ve had to call in a ghost hunter to investigate the source of a mystery flood that has been blighting the building. It turns out that the cinema is home to numerous ghosts, but none are responsible for water damage.”

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

An interesting article covering the @princecharlescinema.com’s current challenges with its landlord. Great that the recent petition inspired Westminster to declare it an ” asset of community value” but the threat is stop there and the landlord is price gouging www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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‘The city is being hollowed out’: the billionaire landlord locked in a David v Goliath battle for London’s West End

Dubbed ‘Britain’s meanest landlord’, Asif Aziz is fighting it out with a tiny cinema that counts Christopher Nolan, Paul Mescal and other Hollywood heroes as fans. How did the capital’s cultural landm...

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A brilliant day at bfi Film On Film festival today, well worth hiding from the sunshine! Preminger’s ADVISE & CONSENT, Iranian film A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE, Hitchcock’s 1934 version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH and Georgian film PIROSMANI. More tomorrow.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A Sunday afternoon treat at the Garden Cinema. My DVD of the wonderful Fishing with John has never been able to play the first Dennis Hopper episode. Eventually I got to see it! Next in this double bill is the UK premiere of a mythical doc called Tarpon.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

As a violin player, I'd ask you please consider signing the petition to save Newark musical instrument school, the last string instrument making school in the UK. It's not just about making new instruments, it's about having skilled people who can do repairs. www.change.org/p/save-the-n...

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Sign the Petition

Save the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts!

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

M: Julien. I'm Marie J: Marie? M: Marie, the one you loved. J: I doubt it, Mademoiselle. You're not at all my type M: That's what you think. Give me a little time. Many thanks to the ICA staff who did live English subtitle matching throughout. Final two Rivette films in the season this weekend.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

For those who need translation of the last scene when the subtitle projector packed in at the ICA's rare screening of Jacques Rivette's HISTOIRE OF MARIE ET JULIEN: Julien: What time is it Marie: Pretty early J: I mean … what are you doing here, who are you? How did you enter? (cont...)

Still from Le histoire de Julien et Marie

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I don’t think he always chose the films but he always had something gleefully interesting to say about them.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The BFI have announced a Moviedrome season starting July!!!! As a teen, I religiously tuned in every Sunday night to watch these weird, cult movies introduced by Alex Cox. Now I’ll see them on the big screen with Cox and producer Nick Freand Jones introducing! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Moviedrome: Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen | BFI Southbank

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Le Cinema Club is spoiling us again. Kelly Reichard’s marvellous debut RIVERS OF GRASS available to watch free for one week. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

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RIVER OF GRASS a film by KELLY REICHARDT

RIVER OF GRASS a film by KELLY REICHARDT. 1994. USA. 76 min.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

UK premiere of David Cronenberg's THE SHROUDS!! This is now on sale to Members (any remaining tickets on sale to public tomorrow lunchtime). I know it's had mixed reviews, but I can't wait.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

For the next six days you can watch Bi Gan’s debut film KAILI BLUES for free at Le Cinema Club. His latest film RESURRECTION will debut shortly at Cannes. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

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Le Cinéma Club | KAILI BLUES

A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

An astonishing final show. A delicate shimmering first set ebbing and flowing beautifully finishing with a touch of darkness. Then what a final set, epic, intense and with such energy. This has been a brilliant residency. Thanks @cafeotodalston.bsky.social and The Necks!

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Just brilliant. What a way to end the residency. Incredible.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I picked this up from the BFI today and can’t wait to dive in. Murch is a fascinating guy and I’d strongly recommend ‘The Conversations’ and ‘In The Blink Of An Eye’.

Book by Walter Murch called Suddenly Something Clicked

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I’m sure they will. These guys have so much musical stamina. I’m looking forward to what they bring to the final performance.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I agree, it was incredible. I can’t wait for tonight.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Performance number three. First set was self contained and relatively short. The second set was the best so far, fast pulse, exploratory, wide ranging and euphoric. And the audience loved it. @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Second performance. Darker mood than the sunny afternoon and equally involving.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The first of four performances over two days of The Necks at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social this afternoon. As mesmerising as always, the two long sets seemed barely to last an instant.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Thanks John. That’s a really interesting article - thanks for sharing it.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I enjoyed watching Errol Flynn in swashbuckling romp CAPTAIN BLOOD, a template for action films such as PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. My thoughts here: wp.me/p8BjDL-1Ii

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Captain Blood (1935)

“Aloft! There’s no chains to hold you now. Break out those sails and watch them fill with the wind that’s carrying us all to freedom!”

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I just discovered this happy yawning fellow on the 4th floor balcony of an Art Nouveaux building in Riga, Latvia. It’s said to resemble film director Sergei Eisenstein, who was the son of the building’s architect Mikhail.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

That should of course be The Last Movie (that bizarre Peru-shot folly), not The Last Picture, which sounds like the love child of Dennis Hopper and Peter Bogdanovich!

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There's a lot more than STAR WARS in the BFI's Film on Film Festival this summer - I'm particularly intrigued by HUD, PIROSMANI, Q THE WINGED SERPENT, THE WIND, LAST SUMMER, STRONGROOM and A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE. I made a @letterboxd.social list of all that's been announced so far. boxd.it/FULv8

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BFI Film on Film 2025

Films included in the BFI Film on Film festival 12-15th June 2025

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I received a little badge for donating blood 25 times. That's the equivalent of donating all of the blood in my body two and a half times. Although that fast-track method doesn't seem too appealing.

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I listened to the new Waterboys album entirely devoted to Dennis Hopper, with Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle guesting! References to Easy Rider, The Last Picture, Orson Welles, and of course Frank Booth. It's sincere and fun - I like it. youtu.be/N6o9HsvbekQ?...

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The Waterboys - Hopper's On Top

YouTube video by TheWaterboysVEVO

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Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I’ve been really enjoying the Jacques Rivette season at the ICA and today’s treat Pont Du Nord was another highlight. A conspiracy mystery set in Paris (what else?), this had a spritely wit and inventiveness that made it a joy from start to finish.

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