Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 11hNa Hong-jin's Hope is pretty bad. Tinashe's Popstar is pretty good. 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 22/09/2026as a noted coward, i have been putting off watching Noroi / the collective works of Koji Shiraishi for years at this point (too scared, too jumpy, too weak etc) — if i watch his movies, how will i hold up? (as a kid i was traumatised by a jump-scare in Scary Movie 4, this is what you're up against). 100
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026been watching How To With John Wilson on and off for the past couple weeks and i think weird guys with HBO money is a pretty good genre 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I've never played Fire Emblem, but I've been meaning to do some due diligence before Fortune's Weave. So I spent a few hours this afternoon playing the first GBA one to see what it's all about. Incredible stuff. 120
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026latest letter is live, covering a few things but mostly Raymond Carver, Juzo Itami's A Quiet Life (1995), and not going to the cinema thistheaterishaunted.substack.com/p/strange-da...thistheaterishaunted.substack.comStrange Days 35August 2026 | A Quiet Life 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026beat Minish Cap this evening for the first time since the mid-2000s (still my fav Zelda aesthetic 🤷♂️), totally forgot how brutal the Vaati fight is, game goes from pretty chill and nice to Dark Souls in like one dungeon 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 21/08/2026!!! www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...lecinemaclub.comVENGEANCE IS MINE a film by MICHAEL ROEMER with BROOKE ADAMS, JON DEVRIES AND ARI MEYERS.A free, curated platform streaming one film every week. 011
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026found a review of Hong Sang-soo's A Traveler's Needs while tidying up my Google Drive this morning, and it's sometimes quite nice to rediscover pieces of your own writing that you'd entirely forgotten about (good movie!) thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-tr...thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.comA Traveler's Needs | Hong Sang-soo, 2024A review of Hong Sang-soo's 2024 film A Traveler's Needs, starring Isabelle Huppert 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 05/08/2026started Cathedral last night, i'm like two stories in and it's so so good 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 07/07/2026sometimes it's nice to be reminded that the holy grails of a decade ago are the 4K restoration screenings of today (finally seeing Pialat's La maison des bois next month) 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 25/06/2026v. happy to see a Bertrand Blier renaissance in the UK Blu-ray market (thank you Indicator), idk what has prompted it but it can't be a bad thing 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 11/06/2026i haven't watched an Assayas movie since Non Fiction and i barely remember a thing about the films of his that i have seen (besides the fact that Personal Shopper is an undisputed 2010s classic) — idk why, but feel like now might be the time for me to finally dip back in / fill the gaps 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026every other thing i see on instagram is somehow related to Hacks, a show I have never seen but now really would like to catch up with — you think you're better than paid ads but they always catch up with you 😔 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I watched new-to-me movies by Fassbinder, Oshima, and Kim Ki-young this weekend, which I cannot complain about. I also finished Slaughterhouse-Five, which I liked quite a lot. Good weekend. 040
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 04/05/2026François Truffaut's The Green Room is so overwhelmed by sadness and so filled with dust and memories, overgrown graveyards, and candles that never go out. Time stops, but the world keeps turning. Great movie. 040
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 13/04/2026idk anything about the films in the Critics' Week selection but this one sounds fun www.semainedelacritique.com/en/edition/2...semainedelacritique.comLa Gradiva La Gradiva | La Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2026feel as if i've lived several weeks in this past week or so, but today i had some rare time to myself and spent it watching Corey Yuen's Yes, Madam! (1985) and Shinji Somai's Moving (1993) — feeling pretty good about how the day's played out tbh 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 05/03/2026went to see Prima Facie today, and I gotta say that a 100 minute Jodie Comer monologue is a hell of a thing to witness 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 23/02/2026it's been a while since i last watched a Chabrol movie, and The Bridesmaid (2004) might be one of his best — i can see why Kiyoshi Kurosawa loves this so much 040
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 21/02/2026catching up on Berlin reviews, keen to see a lot of things but most intrigued by Eva Trobisch's Home Stories and André Novais Oliveira's If I Were Alive, new films from filmmakers I've read a lot about in the past couple of years without ever having seen anything that they've made 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 11/02/2026new Joyce Manor album is v v v v v v v good, i gotta say 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 05/02/2026just sent this month's newsletter, on Pokemon Emerald and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (have a read + subscribe maybe?)thistheaterishaunted.substack.comStrange Days #28January 2026 | Chipping Away 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 01/02/2026best firsts, Jan '26 Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000) A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992) To The Starry Island (Park Kwang-su, 1993) The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1966) The Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1983) 160
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 23/01/2026currently consumed by an overwhelming desire to once again play through (and finally complete) Trauma Center: Under The Knife 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 09/01/2026watched Amadeus yesterday morning (first time in ~15 years, never a film I held with much reverence) in a cinema filled with old people talking loudly to each other and not turning off their phones — even so, a good time at the movies thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2026/01/amad...thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.comAmadeus | Miloš Forman, 1984A review of the 1984 Oscar winning film Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman and starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, based on Peter Shaffer's play. 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Yoshimitsu Morita's The Family Game (1983), a very funny movie about a family who speak but don't listen, wedged awkwardly around a table facing a camera but never each other 040
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 31/12/2025another good year of watching movies at home boxd.it/EBS8eboxd.it2025 (discoveries)A list of 25 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Eel (1997), The Pelican (1974), Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986), Stella Dallas (1937) and Gilsodom (1986). 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 28/12/2025finished my thirtieth novel of the year this morning, hitting the arbitrary target I set in January — best one, either Paul Auster's Leviathan (1992) or Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos (1985). Ready to go again in 2026. 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 24/12/2025it's nice to keep the old traditions alive, so I've written about my 2025 in cinema (and beyond) this Xmas Eve, including fav new films, best discoveries + some stuff about music + novels + other miscellany — have a wonderful festive season! 💫💫💫 thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com2025 in CinemaA personal roundup of my experience of the year 2025, from film to music to literature and more 043
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Avatar: Fire and Ash (great movie, imo) has got me wanting to revisit Aliens and The Abyss, feel like I've been severely underrating most if not all of the Big Jim Classics and these two have always fared quite poorly in my mind, for reasons I cannot even begin to remember 110
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Saul Bass's Phase IV (1974) is such a great feel bad movie, and a surprisingly lowkey one considering it's about a plague of superintelligent ants in the Arizona desert — Bass should've directed more movies! 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 09/12/2025credit where it's due, the Dijon album is a very good soundtrack to making a basa biryani 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 08/12/2025spent a bit of time writing about my history with Kill Bill, and how extraordinary it was to see it for the first time in more than a decade last week thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/12/kill...thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.comKill Bill | Quentin Tarantino, 2003A personal history of a writer's experience with Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill, starring Uma Thurman 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 06/12/2025so so fun to see Kill Bill in its entirety last night, and wild how much of it I remembered word-for-word, shot-for-shot — I guess that's what happens when you watch a movie 20+ times as a teenager (see also: Face/Off, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Goldeneye etc etc) 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 18/11/2025watched Jun Ichikawa's Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988) this afternoon, a lovely film about lost time and the sad anonymity of a decades-long corporate career coming to an end — and how, sometimes, the joy of starting a jazz band with the boys is enough to make up for everything else. 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I spent a few days at the Viennale a couple of weeks ago and I've (finally) written about some of the films I saw — a good festival! thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/11/vien... 011
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 04/11/2025the two-year anniversary issue of Strange Days has just been sent to subscribers — on Annie Ernaux, Claire Simon, and Yasunari Kawabata. Read it here if the algorithm makes it visible, subscribe if you haven't already etc thistheaterishaunted.substack.com/p/strange-da...thistheaterishaunted.substack.comStrange Days #25October 2025 | Turbulence 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Vienna is a fun city to watch movies in, I gotta say. Good festival! 16 films in 5 days, five great cinemas, lots of good food / coffee, only a mild sense of fear and danger when attempting to cross roads. Hard to fault it! 110
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 20/10/2025wrote about the four films I managed to see at this year's London Film Festival (all of which are fascinating in very different ways) thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/10/lond... 030
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 18/10/2025it's amazing how much the theatricality of The Fence works in its favour, just two horrendous men standing in spotlights and monologuing deafly to an audience, only for it all to fall apart when the lights come up. 010
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2025i've written some capsules on the three Sho Miyake films I've been able to track down and watch over the past week or so — an excellent filmmaker! thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/09/sho-... 131
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 14/09/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsjD...youtube.comturn blue onYouTube video by dinner - Topic 000
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2025watched Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986) tonight, which is such a great, beautiful, devastatingly sad movie, and the best thing I've seen all year — need to see more Vecchiali ASAP 040
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 08/08/2025i have never pre-ordered anything faster in my life 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 04/08/2025v late to this, but caroline 2 is such a great, strange album that i haven't been able to stop listening to all day caroline.bandcamp.com/album/caroli...caroline.bandcamp.comcaroline 2, by caroline8 track album 020
Matt Mansfield @mattmansfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2025stormy skies on a gloomy saturday morning is maybe the ideal backdrop to say that the new Alex G album is really very good 010
