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Doug Dillaman

@dillamonster.bsky.social
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American in Aotearoa New Zealand. Film editor, filmmaker (Gut Instinct [2024], Jake [2014], etc), musician (The Sea Plus), helpful guy.

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 12h
I think it's my favorite. (I initially rated BARBARIAN higher but on second viewing the last third is a slog.) What did you think of the end? Conventional wisdom is it's a letdown. I loved it.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 13h
If you're looking for spooky time viewing suggestions that are uncommonly beautiful, this thread is chock full of them. Bava! THE WHITE REINDEER! THE INNOCENTS! More Bava!
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 14h
A few no one's mentioned yet that would be in contention (tho SUSPIRIA is my singular answer): A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, GDT's FRANKENSTEIN, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS, pretty much anything by the Quay Brothers
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AKL/WGTN/CHCH: BLACK SHEEPS premiere tix on sale now! Or buy a Terror-Fi fest badge and it's included! (Full lineup coming soon, but CRAWLERS, IT ENDS, VICTORIAN PSYCHO and WILD HORSE NINE are already announced.) terrorfifest.com
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Terror-Fi Film Festival | New Zealand's Genre Fest
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 20h
I'm historically fortunate to have a second trade but as a wildly obscure filmmaker I think sometimes of how many discrete levels of prominence and achievement separate me from mild obscurity - or even vague recognition - and how those people don't make a living making movies either.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AKL/WGTN/CHCH: BLACK SHEEPS premiere tix on sale now! Or buy a Terror-Fi fest badge and it's included! (Full lineup coming soon, but CRAWLERS, IT ENDS, VICTORIAN PSYCHO and WILD HORSE NINE are already announced.) terrorfifest.com
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Terror-Fi Film Festival | New Zealand's Genre Fest
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Given that Damien Wilkins is on the right hand side ... honestly I have no idea. They do things different in Taumaranui!
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't think I've ever seen a bookstore organised this way before
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dunno if you saw but they towed it from Ellerslie, so very misleading story
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When I found out the kids were into Duster a few years back, something in my brain broke. Bizarre the bargain bin figures and movements history ultimately embraces. (And I say that as someone who owns and really enjoys STRATOSPHERIC.)
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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a corrective to the dreadful New York Times list of the best TV shows of the 21st century, I humbly offer my own dreadful list. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/lists-tv-i...
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Lists - TV in the 21st Century
As a corrective to the dreadful New York Times list of the best TV shows of the 21st century, I humbly offer my own dreadful list.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Possibly the most maximalist narrative films I've ever seen (haven't caught up with the third). I found the first energizing and the second enervating, but anyone keeping up with "what can movies be like?" should watch at least fifteen minutes of the first, even just to establish they hate it
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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 05/10/2026
The weeklong festival of Funerals & Snakes kicked off today with a link to the very first column from 4 October 2006: funeralsandsnakes.net/p/celebratin...
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Celebrating 20 years: Day one - Funerals & Snakes
L'enfer is a DVD rental from Aro Street Video.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
28 YEARS LATER if it was about avian flu
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If it turns out that roads can vote, National will govern alone next term. If it doesn't, this strategy is incomprehensible.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I see where they're coming from to a degree, but DIGGER is bone-deep nihilism and Coppola is passionately optimistic.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My spoiler-laden review of DIGGER is getting some likes, so sharing here. boxd.it/gx5mIJ
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A review of Digger (2026)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI quick facts We need to adopt this tech or get left behind
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
god was anyone ever sharper than shirley jackson
I am actually going to talk about what I call images, or symbols. It seems to me that in our present great drive-fiction-wise-toward the spare, clean, direct kind of story, we are somehow leaving behind the most useful tools of the writer, the small devices that separate fiction from reporting, the work of the imagination from the everyday account. Of these the far most important, and the most neglected, is the use of symbols; I am using the word loosely, because it has altogether different meanings elsewhere, and yet I hardly know what other word to use. The thing I am talking about is best identified by reference to a theory of acting that has always seemed to me very profound, and certainly useful to the writer:
Before entering upon a role, the actor, having of course familiarized himself with the character he is to portray, constructs for himself a set of images, or mental pictures, of small, unimportant things he feels belong around the character.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Evening repost. Amathus is an indie arthouse streamer with a 7-day refund policy, so check it out!
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy anniversary!
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't even know why I take books on holiday when my major holiday activity is shopping for books. (Hi @craigcliff.bsky.social !)
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twitter account user teddywong @naturebean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔈 psychic glands 1st october 2026: www.95bfm.com/bcast/psychi...
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My two features, GUT INSTINCT and JAKE, and my short YOU COULD HAVE SEEN THE MONA LISA are now available for streaming worldwide on Amathus. amathus.vhx.tv/directed-by-...
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Directed by Doug Dillaman - AMATHUS
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Jacobunny @jacobunny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎥NZ film PSA: Holy shit NIRVANNA - THE BAND - THE SHOW - THE MOVIE just dropped on NZ @netflix! Didn't expect to see that here. One of the best, most fun movie experiences of the last few years. Do yourself a favor and get amongst for some full body smiles www.netflix.com/us/title/830...
Netflix Page for NIRVANNA - THE BAND - THE SHOW - THE MOVIE
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Zero hyperbole below. OGROFF was one of my most transporting movie experiences ever. I didn't know what planet I was on when it was done.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(I have zero idea what film is being discussed here)
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
London Calling was on Columbia, recorded at the same studio Queen and King Crimson used (shrug emoji here)
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He fixes the cable?
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those who have wanted to see GUT INSTINCT but haven't been able to get AroVision to work for them: from tomorrow, it (as well as my first feature JAKE) will be available on indie streamer Amathus. amathus.vhx.tv
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Amathus
Amathus is a collection of rare films, lost films, and undiscovered masterpieces of arthouse cinema.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have that big orange book, it rules. Look forward to reports on the rest.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Listening to @davidfarrier.com compare comprehending timeshares to understanding TENET on Flightless Bird was deeply therapeutic, having tried several times without success to understand what my parents have bought into and what my brother and I may have to contend with as an inheritance/obligation
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Steve CarlSon of Celluloid @lcosgrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With SUPER Æ, Boredoms went from hyperactive noise-punk to expansive Krautrock. Didn't miss a step in doing so.
The cover to the album SUPER Æ by Boredoms.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Goddammit is DECAPITRON just another name for THE ELIMINATORS?!? I was convinced I found my new favourite movie for a minute
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oz seems to have entrenched a fair bit more production - NZ feels more precarious at the moment generally, it's been quiet the last couple months and our current government is very anti-arts
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hadn't clocked this American federal film incentive before, and it's terrific news for American film workers but seems incredibly frightening for Kiwis who work below the line and have relied on being a location for American production the last few decades.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THE TIMEKEEPERS OF ETERNITY is coming to physical media!! Not many details but it's on a coming soon graphic at the Video Visions website. www.videovisions.org
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Video Visions | Boutique Home Video Label & Video Store
Video Visions is a boutique home video label releasing limited editions of cult, indie and animated films, with a video store in Chatham, NY. Pre-order new releases now.
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Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ooh this is gonna be good, i guess a mouchette is like a vampire or something
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘When it comes to war, human rights and genocide, it all starts with language’
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‘When it comes to war, human rights and genocide, it all starts with language’
Brannavan Gnanalingam on his new novel U.X.O. and the civil war that has had so much impact on his and his family's life.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh god are they at it again? Haven't we suffered enough?
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here you go. boxd.it/ejBW
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Spirit of Seventy Sex (1976)
A tongue-in-cheek look at the sex lives of the Founding Fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Captain John Smith.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Listening now and it's nuts I don't listen more often. A soothing sea of spaced out sound with extraordinary instrumental variety that always hits my happy place. And maybe yours! You too could be listening to psychic glands!
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Part and parcel of a) being into animation and avant-garde (I suspect the # for @msicism.bsky.social dwarfs that) and b) being in a filmmaking community, where lots of people (both a-g and narrative) get started with shorts and their films play on programmes with other shorts.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That reminds me my new short (my first hand drawn animation!) is screening with nine other shorts Tuesday night, only one of which I've seen, so if the remaining eight are on the 'boxd it will almost certainly be then, unless I make a point to watch a shitload of shorts before then.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hope it all goes smoothly and doesn't impede your film enjoyment!
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9 films left until I hit 8000 films logged on Letterboxd. Hoping I can time it out for a milestone film, maybe UNFORGIVEN or A TOUCH OF ZEN.
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 IT’S NEW PROTOMARTYR ALBUM DAY 🚨🚨🚨
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