Matt Simon

Writer & filmmaker. Interested in cinema, democracy, & justice for migrants. Writing about horror cinema on the Dead of Night newsletter.

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In anticipation of @cinematic_void's screening of The Seventh Victim in 35mm (!) I wrote this little piece about the film--its contrasting sisters, and the (potential) proto-goth icon that is Jean Brooks's Jacqueline Gibson. https://t.co/OXPp2ivOJv

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Let’s vote friends. Let’s elect Kamala and then keep fighting.

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in which I also recommend this charmer

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HUMANIST VAMPIRE 🧛‍♀️ is now playing in many fine cities across the US. Expansion continues this Friday and throughout the month of July.

Find a theater near you: https://t.co/Rl9w3ACa05

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In anticipation of Longlegs coming out this week, I’m asking a fundamental question: What, exactly, is Osgood Perkins’s deal? https://t.co/8Io3f0d4fZ

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“The effect is not to recreate the old Hollywood experience but to conjure it where it doesn’t belong.” https://t.co/Q4SaAV5puq

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And I also recommend this exploration in the @LAReviewofBooks of Fatima Al Qadiri’s score for Atlantics. https://t.co/3VKGGxYKeW

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New from me on public dread in Gakuryū Ishii’s wild mind-melt Angel Dust. https://t.co/1FbjvnEDLZ

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Added a new recommendation section to the newsletter which will be fun to do. For this edition, a proto-slasher I was lucky enough to see recently on 35.

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My mom’s obit. She did so much.

[The San Diego Union-Tribune @sdut]

Candace Carroll, 'a pioneer as a woman lawyer in San Diego,' dies at 79 https://t.co/bdQhptqGAu

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@AndrewBeirl DMed you

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If any mutuals want a code for the other network DM me.

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@AntBit definitely less nightmare noise leaking onto my timeline

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reminder

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Friends I haven’t fully left this platform but it is a place run by a malevolent clown (the bad kind). So please follow me over here (or via my newsletter, mastodon I guess if you’re actually using it, or Insta).

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@AntBit yeah I think so—still getting the hang of it

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Jumping back on this drain-circling site to offer this new piece about Watcher and what it means to be watched—in life and in cinema. https://t.co/2FzLuwIu0L

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@bealoayza A great piece and a welcome push-back at the filmmaker-as-"storyteller" cliché. Thank you.

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Finally caught up with Oppenheimer, a fascinating film that I found rather objectionable on moral grounds. https://t.co/cKB8jnR4xp

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Walking out, my partner and I were like, “which of the 10 conversations that sparked should we have?”

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Finally saw my Friedkin white whale (on the big screen).

[Matt Simon @mttsimon]

Friends I haven’t fully left this platform but it is a place run by a malevolent clown (the bad kind). So please follow me over here (or via my newsletter, mastodon I guess if you’re actually using it, or Insta).