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NEW Don't Torture a Duckling podcast
also I have a new book chapter!

Check it: on a brand new episode of Friday Film Showcased, Conor Hogan and I continue our discussion on the giallo genre with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci’s 1972 masterpiece, Don’t Torture a Duckling.
FFS is a podcast where we look back at film seasons we’ve done together in years past. It is, with all humility, the best podcast in the world. I hope you’ll check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen and find all the links here, or find the link on your preferred platform below. And you can catch up on our broader giallo discussion here too!
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ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch
ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch is an essay collection about one of the best ever to do it, edited by David John Boyd. I contributed a chapter on his early German comedies, the history of farce, and how they deconstruct class and gender. I was so excited when I got my copy in the post this week:
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It’s coming out this month, and in the meantime, you can preorder here.
parting recs
Watch: I really cannot oversell how much I loved the Robbie Williams monkey movie. Please watch Better Man, it’s what movies were made for.
Listen: Relatedly, I have listened to Robbie Williams’s greatest hits more or less non-stop since. You might think to yourself “sure, I like Robbie Williams I guess” but trust me: you almost certainly actually love Robbie Williams.
Read: Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision seems like it wouldn’t work because it is a biography of a person who seems, at this vantage point and maybe always, fundamentally unknowable. But Charles Elton not only recognises but makes his book thematically about its own incompleteness. It’s also a beautiful love letter to one of cinema’s most unfairly maligned artists.
Check out otherwise: Really big fan of Real Bird Fake Bird. As I write this the topic is Fast and Furious characters, and I somehow only got six out of seven, and I am raging. (I have seen all the movies.)
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