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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing: www.vulture.com/article/movi...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

So I talked to the artist formerly known as BoJack Horseman... www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

There is stumping for your movie, and then there’s stumping for your movie, Benny Safdie-style…

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Did Jimmy Kimmel write this caption?

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

To everyone who's crying "bloodbath" over the SNL turnover — which, look, I'll miss those cast members and writers, esp. Gardner — the 1994 to 1995 season would like a word...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This batch of Criterion releases in November could not be more all-over-the-map or eclectic, and I'm 100% here for it...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Still think that Lesley Manville in PHANTOM THREAD is, even after all the awards and accolades given at the time, one of *the* great unsung screen performances of the last 10 years. Just grace notes galore here.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Totally psyched to be in New Orleans as a guest of the Overlook Film Festival, was even more psyched (and moved) to see this photo up on the wall of the Prytania Uptown Theater…

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Zach Baron's interview with Ben Affleck over at GQ is, per usual, a fucking great read, but it's also an excuse to shout out Affleck's work in THE WAY BACK, which continues to be one of those "oh, wow!" all-timer performances for me...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

That was on my to-watch list before I talked to him, and didn't get around to it...gonan catch up with it ASAP. If you can find it online or have access to Channel 4 online in UK, check out THE VIRTUES, a four-part series he did with Shane Meadows in 2019. Absolutely devastating, brilliant.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Philip Seymour Hoffman is in HARD EIGHT for three minutes, and in that time you get a fully realized asshole, complete with cock-of-the-walk showboating, adolescent insecurity, hero worship, pin-pricks of self-loathing. I've watched that scene 100 times & it never ceases to knock me the fuck out. 📽️

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

As a die-hard Stephen Graham fan, I'd have caught up with ADOLESCENCE eventually. Then @sepinwall.bsky.social inspired me to fast-track it—and it's the best thing I've seen on TV in ages. Like THE WIRE for male rage, w/ four single-shot eps standing in for full seasons. Absofuckinglutely astounding.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Having worked my way through all of Ellroy and Pelecanos (and most of Elmore Leonard and Joe R. Lansdale), I'm starting in on Carl Hiaasen's novels... and good goddamn, his Skink character is as good as pulp heroes get...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“But most important of all, I continue living up to my motto: Dignity… always dignity.”

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I remember that the first time I saw this cartoon in Jules Feiffer's memoir BACKING INTO FORWARD, I audibly gasped, as if someone was plainly saying out loud the quiet things I said in my head. I had this hanging on my cubicle at Time Out NY for ages. It still cuts to the bone for me.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Torn between "JFC why do we still not consider documentaries actual-honest-to-God films!!!" and stoked that both Ross and Kapadia, who each made their first narrative features (that have documentary elements in them) got nominated re: the DGAs...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Cold pizza, hot coffee and an all-day Ealing marathon, and a very Happy New Year to you!!!

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Second viewing of REBEL RIDGE, my only regrets are a) not seeing this on a big screen and b) not putting it higher on my year end list. This is the real fucking deal

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Caught the final performance, it’s… a thing!

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The last time I saw TV ON THE RADIO, it was in Prospect Park and my kid was sitting on my shoulders watching them play. The show they put on last night at Webster Hall was, no joke, fucking epic — they opened with ‘Young Liars’ and did a version of ‘Wolf Like Me’ that nearly singed my beard off.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

God bless ya, Resident Brit Rat Bastard Rory Kinnear

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The BEATLES '64 doc is chock full of great candid moments, concert snippets and context, esp if you've never seen the Maysles footage before — but what I really want is an eight-hour cut that's nothing but David Lynch talking about going into a Beatles concert cold during that first American tour...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In case anyone wants to know why my review will be going up late today…

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My 110th favorite thing about THE INSIDER, a movie that I totally and completely love: There is a terse, tense, highly masculine showdown involving dueling fax machines.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

I've been nominated in two categories from the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, huge thanks to the organization, and a laurel and hearty handshake to my fellow nominees...

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

It's 2024. A variation of a deadly virus spreads throughout the globe. A self-proclaimed dictator incubates homegrown fascism in the U.S. The fight for freedom rages on various fronts. There is a but a single course of action left in this dystopia: Bring back Ska one final time.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Wrote reviews. Went to Cannes for 1st time in 11 years. Interviewed people onstage from Paul Simon to Billie Eilish to Wim Wenders. Wrote a book. Drank cocktails. Sent Kid to college. Had steak dinner w/ the Film Criticism Avengers™. Thanks 2023. You were a fine last year of Western Civilization.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

“He might not be pretty, but at least he’s vulgar” — Anna Karina on Jean-Paul Belmondo

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Now Playing: Sara Driver's SLEEPWALK. As always, mid-1980s Ann Magnuson FTW.

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Now playing: MADONNA OF THE SEVEN MOONS (this is one gloriously/seriously fucked up Gainsborough movie)

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David Fear @davidlfear.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

This year, I'm giving thanks for the fact that yes, I WOULDST LIKE TO LIVE DELICIOUSLY!

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