My favorite Blu-Ray releases of 2025: Eustache, Stroheim, Fulci, Epstein, Friedkin, Sirk …

I’m watching the last films of the year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Patrick Müller, acrylic on canvas, 50x70 cm, 2007.

Filming on 16mm in Saxon Switzerland.

My award-winning 16mm short film is now available for everyone to watch for free. Enjoy! vimeo.com/852052138

Today, I finally managed to film the blood moon until it turned back into a full moon. The scenes will be part of my next film. I used the Schneider-Keuznach 240mm for the first time, a wonderfully reliable lens. And now it’s time for hand processing!

I’m preparing my new film “Do You Know the Night”, inspired by a haunting poem by German writer Karl May. The experimental film will be shot from autumn through spring in Waldheim and the Ore Mountains — on 16mm Kodak Double-X, the same raw, textured stock Robert Eggers used for “The Lighthouse“.

Coming soon: short film programme BEST OF "ANDERSARTIG", including two of my films, Shot on 8 and 16mm film. I will be present. 27.08.2025 | 19:00 h Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany in cooperation with FilmZ Festival of German Cinema.

I've now seen the trailer and poster for Chistopher Nolan's “Odyssey” and can't stop thinking about Fritz Lang, who also films the “Odyssey” in Godard's film “Contempt”. youtu.be/3W2VFCdKZJU

Ed Chigliak: “Pretty big line out there. I guess 'Forrest Gump' really is more popular than 'Nosferatu'. […] I bet you if Tom Hanks had played 'Nosteratu', eighty domestic, easy.” — Northern Exposure, 6.17 (1997)

My new article about Claude Chabrol's film LA RUPTURE in the German print film magazine “70 Millimeter”.

The journey comes to an end ✨: I am very happy that my film ANCIENT LORE has also been selected from over 1,000 submissions to take part in the 22rd ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 🎥🦓. The festival will take place from June 5th to 8th, 2025 at the SILENT GREEN venue in Berlin 📍🇩🇪.

⭐️Tomorrow I'll be a guest on the the panel “60 YEARS OF SUPER 8”, alongside Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie, Dagie Brundert, Joachim Schmidt and Michael Sommermeyer. ⏰Dresdner Schmalfilmtage Festival, 3:00 pm And in the evening at 7.45 pm: projection incl. Q&A with me and my film 🎞L'HOMME ET LA MER

Visiting some famous Murnau-Nosferatu shooting locations in Lübeck and Wismar, Germany

@secondsightfilms.bsky.social Tonight I'm going to watch “Blair Witch Project” for the first time, restored from the Hi8 videotapes and 16mm film elements. I'm so excited.

Super 8 celebrates 60 years: My short film L’HOMME ET LA MER (2018) is part of the program at the 26th Dresden Schmalfilmtage, and I’m excited to experience it with you! 📅 When? Friday, March 21, 7:45 PM 📍 Where? Motorenhalle, Wachsbleichstraße 4a, 01067 Dresden More info: www.schmalfilmtage.de

I’ll leave the world as it is for now and head back to Twin Peaks. 💿🗻🗻

AUS DER TIEFE www.patrickcinema.de 📸 ©️ Jan Harenberg, Internationales Filmfestival Braunschweig 2024

Playing the Sam‘n‘Max Hit the Road board game from @limitedrungames.com

“Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.” – David Lynch

RIP David Lynch (1946–2025): He was one of the main reasons why I started making movies. After his “Inland Empire”, nothing was the same for me. I will miss his art. He has now entered the Red Room. Thank you!

Jean Eustache's THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE was described by Cahiers du cinéma as the best film of the 1970s and is now on Blu-Ray from Criterion. To finally be able to see Eustache's masterpiece is a revelation for me: Leaud in his own free-spirited world, where, in my opinion, he is at his best.

Studiocanal's Blu-ray release of ten of Alfred Hitchcock's early films with new restorations and scores is a masterstroke: I have never seen his early silent and sound films in such good quality. A great pleasure! @studiocanal.com @plaion.bsky.social

“The Exterminating Angel”: Still my favourite film by Luis Buñuel, now on Blu-Ray by Radiance Films for the first time. 👋 @filmsradiance.bsky.social

Robert Eggers' dark psychosexual gothic tragedy NOSFERATU is so captivatingly beautiful that I want to watch the movie again right away.

THE SWEETHEART'S PRESENT: A short vampire film that I made for German designer Marcel Kabisch in 2012. vimeo.com/1043878565

“Beautiful work. Feels like a love letter to Bergman.” – Jordan Shankman “Sigh, rushes, sigh”: In his tale of passionate love and heartbreaking grief, Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) explains the drowning of the beautiful Ingalill. vimeo.com/258502646

The German film magazine "35 Millimeter" is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a special issue dedicated to the "United Artists" and introducing all current authors. I've been writing for the magazine since 2021 and this time I'm represented with an article on Howard Hawks' “Red River”.

While shooting my short film ANCIENT LORE in 2023, I was looking for a place that could serve me as a visualisation of H.P. Lovecraft’s underwater world R’lyeh. I found it in the Phare d’Eckmühl lighthouse in Brittany. Now I got a tin of sardines by chance and am dreaming myself back to R’lyeh.

Me and a large part of the editorial team of the German 35-millimeter film magazine at the 38th Braunschweig International Film Festival in autumn 2024 📸 Jan Harenberg

The three Russ Meyer films restored and released on Ultra-HD by Severin Films in the USA are the sensation of the year for me. For the first time, you have the original aspect ratio and perfect picture and sound quality, restored for the first time from the original film elements since the seventies

I really appreciate Robert Egger's films. In 2017, I was particularly proud that my short film WALPURGISNACHT was shown at the Internationales Filmfestival Braunschweig as a supporting film to Robert Egger's THE VVITCH.

So true.

Old winter traditions: first Chivers, then Shivers!

William Friedkin's important film CRUISING will soon be released in the UK in a lavish edition with many extras. I would also like to recommend the excellent book DEVIL’S ADVOCATES: CRUISING, written in English by Eugenio Ercolani and @stiglegger.bsky.social. An excellent read.

Re-watching some of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films.

So cool that ANCIENT LORE will be playing at the 30th Annual Brainwash Drive-in/Bike-in/Walk-in Movie Festival in San Francisco, California! November 30, 2024! ⛺ The BoxShop, 951 Hudson Ave., SF, CA. www.brainwashm.com

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Name five films that you would take with you into a fallout shelter. (asked by Bjoern) My picks: BAND OF ANGELS by Raoul Walsh A SUMMER’S TALE by Eric Rohmer MOONRISE KINGDOM by Wes Anderson RADIO DAYS by Woody Allen JEZEBEL by William Wyler What are yours?

“INTO THE REALM OF THE NIGHT is a film that grounds us in reality but then transcends the viewer into a mystic universe where music and image collide and space and time merge.” – Mike Rollo, 23. Dresdner Schmalfilmtage vimeo.com/669302298

An old English video interview from spring 2022. I talk about my films, influences, old cameras, silent films and books. youtu.be/7OwQdjJVDCU

Poster of my short film THE GARDEN (2019). Stéphane Marti wrote: "Between garden and cemetery, a delightfully romantic stroll, the dream of a lost heart." vimeo.com/348364504

AUS DER TIEFE: 16mm-Gedichtfilme von Patrick Müller auf dem 38. Internationalen Filmfestival Braunschweig Fotos: Jan Harenberg

Wieder eine neue Folge unseres Podcast-Projektes ANTENNE TRAUMSTADT: DIESMAL besprechen Bjoern Candidus und Patrick Müller THE MANGLER (1995), der auf der gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichte von Stephen King basiert. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/8...

Ein neues Sonderheft von 35 Millimeter - Das Retro Filmmagazin: FRENCH NOIR. Neben vielen lesenswerten Beiträgen meiner Redaktionskollegen bin ich mit zwei Texten dabei, einem Renoir und einem Truffaut.