Tonight at Waterstones Liverpool! Last few tickets at the link: www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

Liverpool people! I’ll be in conversation with Saul Leslie next Tuesday 21st April about his fantastic debut novel at Waterstones Liverpool. Tickets on sale now at the link. All welcome! www.waterstones.com/events/saul-...

Wrote on an underseen classic, Robert Altman’s California Split (1974): open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

I wrote about Best Picture Oscar winner One Battle After Another open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

The new issue of Death Kit features an extract, "Skull", from a novel I'm currently working on. Death Kit have done such a phenomenal job on this - the whole issue looks fantastic. You can get it at https:// deathkitcom.wordpress.com/86-2/ where you can subscribe (1 year/4 issue £10/£7.50)

Wrote on the complicated legacies of Silence of the Lambs at 35: davidhering.substack.com/p/the-silenc...

Absolutely loved 28YL: The Bone Temple. Thought it was more focused and intelligent than its predecessor- not afraid to breathe and let the viewer think. Preferred the stillness of this to Boyle’s manic style. And there’s a proper hootin’ and hollerin’-worthy set piece late on

Smooth Talk (1985): Thought this was excellent. A remarkable evocation of teenage life that turns abruptly into something much darker. Laura Dern has been great since day one

I wrote about my favourite films of 2025: open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

Later this month, I’ll be writing about my films of 2025. But first, the arguably more important first annual Notes from the End of Cinema Movie Awards (or NECMAs), which are very serious and not in any way an opportunity for cheap laughs and jibes: davidhering.substack.com/p/the-first-...

For Reverse Shot I reviewed the deeply frustrating Hamnet, a film simultaneously overawed by Shakespeare and totally uninterested in him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/3399/hamnet

I wrote a brief appreciation of the late Peter Watkins: davidhering.substack.com/p/peter-watk...

A Halloween special post from Notes From The End Of Cinema about the time me and my friends made a horror film. You can read the post, and watch the film, at the link. Happy Halloween! open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

A Halloween special from Notes from the End of Cinema - 10 Horror films you might not know open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

I wrote on One Battle After Another, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson’s California open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

I wrote on Eddington, and what happens when you try to mix the internet with a Western open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

60s Scott Walker: Baby take it easy now/I miss your sweet caress and how! 70s Scott Walker: The boulevards are rushing by, mon frere/With ennui and some despair 00s Scott Walker: Locust/Locust/Disease [sound of Mickey Mouse being tortured in a Bolivian jail]

Delighted that this article has been picked up by @criterion.bsky.social for The Daily www.criterion.com/current/post...

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

I wrote about my complex feelings on Zach Creggar's unusual horror film Weapons, in a review which ended up also taking in John Carpenter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch and Theodor Adorno t.co/WUST5jpXQT

Enjoy this Rohmer talk and this picture of a Rohmer-esque lighthouse

I wrote about Pavements and the current state of the Music Biopic open.substack.com/pub/davidher...

I wrote about 28 Years Later, a film which I struggled with but nevertheless found fascinating in its vision of contemporary Britain davidhering.substack.com/p/isles-of-w...

I have a very short story out today in @xraylitmag.bsky.social and you can read it here: xraylitmag.com/another-word...

I wrote about Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise’s increasingly deranged career davidhering.substack.com/p/tom-cruise...

Correction: 7:45pm now!

I’m going to be on BBC News at 6:45 tonight discussing the International Booker Prize, if you’re so interested!

A new substack from me on The Six Worst Cinema Audiences of My Life. A journey through cinema hell which many of you will recognise: t.co/oJsheCJd8n

For my latest Substack, I wrote about the modern cinematic haunted house, Boomers, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Zemeckis and the uncanny quality of real estate photography: t.co/oZFAp1jGOL

I wrote about David Cronenberg. Link here: t.co/wcIR0X9ghQ

I'm starting a Substack, 'Notes from the End of Cinema'. It's a film diary, but will also feature writing on broader aspects of contemporary cinema. Anything and everything from the history of cinema will be covered. If you'd like to subscribe, the link is here: t.co/rS09qsHUT1

I'm starting a Substack, 'Notes from the End of Cinema'. It's a film diary, but will also feature writing on broader aspects of contemporary cinema. Anything and everything from the history of cinema will be covered. If you'd like to subscribe, the link is here: t.co/rS09qsHUT1

I had a great time discussing Marguerite Young's monumental novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling on @beyondthezero.bsky.social - link here! open.spotify.com/episode/2zwO...

I'm currently working on a new novel, and an extract from it, titled 'The Gleaner's Wife', which was previously available only in The London Magazine's print issue, is now available to read on my website. Link: www.davidhering.com/the-gleaner-...

Marguerite Young, interviewed by The Paris Review in 1977, on the inspiration for the ‘opium lady’ in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

From a novel I wrote, still awaiting a publisher

"Yes, I’ve ignored two decades which some would say constitute the absolute apex of the American novel but I can assure you it wasn’t personal"

My favourite books I read in 2024 (1/2). An epic poem about poetry, German misanthropy, Parisian therapists, a history of viruses, hauntings in the Alps and the American South, a huge whale in a collapsing town, and a portrait of stolen childhood

Favourite films I saw in 2024 that are not from 2024

quite proud that mine and @davidhering.bsky.social’s episode of uol’s english department podcast is the most listened to! you can also listen, here: open.spotify.com/episode/2wbT...

These are my favourite films released in 2024 - still a month to go, but I don’t think much will change

“We’re hearing that the Angel of History balloon is out of control - a wind is blowing from paradise and it’s broken free of its moorings”

Next up

Well I’ve had a few odd emails over the years but this is a new one

Next up…

Whne someone calls prose 'muscular', this is what I envision

I'm on @LOTP_Pod this week talking about one of the most bizarre films of the 1990s, Natural Born Killers, on its 30th anniversary. Tune in for discussion about a truly insane era of British censorship, teenage movie-going and American cinema in the 1990s open.spotify.com/episode/2HZ0...

I am a simple man. If I read “first two parts of wildly acclaimed Danish speculative septology from New Directions incoming” then I immediately pre-order

It’s funny how in Proust there’s a moment of remembrance that holds equal significance to the madeleine, but no one ever mentions it because it consists of a lengthy description of stepping on a stone that’s a bit lower than another stone next to it

Mrs Dalloway said she would walk the clock herself