Andrew Nette
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“It’s worse than death in the mines. you want them to sing opera as well?” Award winning author, pulp scholar, bibliophile & lover of all things noir.
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Here is the stunning cover for the upcoming book I've co-edited Samm Deighan, REVOLUTION IN 35MM: POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE IN CINEMA FROM THE ARTHOUSE TO THE GRINDHOUSE, 1960-1990. So proud of this book, which will be out late 2024. More details:
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Is there any more joyous a sight than the face of News Limited fear mongering realising that no one pays any attention to it any more?
#VicVotes2022
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“A candy coloured clown they call the sandman.” Vale Dean Stockwell, dead at 85. I can’t think of a single movie or TV series he performed in that he wasn’t great.
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Today's squad goal: to live life like artist Frank Frazetta and his daughter.
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Are the librarians among you aware there is a 1956 film called STORM CENTER, starring Betty Davis as a librarian who has to contend with a local council that wants to ban books from her local library? It is the first American film that directly criticised the Red Scare.
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2023?
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Soviet era Polish science fiction. I am not sure what about the date of publication, but the artist is Stefan Norblin.
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Finally found the perfect school lunchbox, 35 years too late.
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Like or RT this if you are old enough to remember when the Bermuda Triangle was one of the culture’s major supernatural obsessions
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This is your annual reminder that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film. Enjoy the festive season in the Yabba, best bloody town in Australia, mate!
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I think we don’t spend nearly enough time talking about how amazing William Friedkin’s 1985 film TO LIVE & DIE IN LA is. A great L.A. film & an amazing neo noir. Along with MANHUNTER, how did this not make William Petersen a stratospheric star?
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Just received an official email from the university stating that my PhD dissertation has been accepted without revision.
Okay, now onto the next stage, getting my history of Australian pulp fiction published as a book.
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The FRIENDS reunion is an opportune time to remind you the fountain in the series opening credits is the same one that appears outside Neville's apartment in THE OMEGA MAN (1971), found at Warner Bros backlot in California. Neville's apartment is visible in sitcom promo shots
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A stunning piece by Spanish artist Fernando Fernandez. I dig everything about this uniquely late 1960s/1970s hardboiled style of illustration, and Spanish artists particularly aced it. Also, what was it back then about the popularity of Tiffany lamps & light shades?
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I have been thinking about this cover which
@DarkandWondrous
sent me earlier, all day. It is like some sort of Fortean spoof, but they assures me it is real. Peak 1970s hauntology
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We absolutely do not see enough skeletons in wetsuits. Along with skeletons in space suits one of my favourite pulp tropes. Art by Albert Pujolar.
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Retweet or like this post if you can remember what a huge pop culture phenomenon the Loch Ness Monster was in the 1960s & 1970. This book, which I remember having as a child, was published by Target Books, 1973
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Screw Netflix, our next TV series is the 1976 BBC program, I, CLAUDIUS. I have never seen this although remember being vaguely aware of it being very risqué & somewhat controversial back in the day.
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Toshiro Mifune and I wish all of you who celebrate it a very merry Christmas
#Christmas2020
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Another shout out to the awesomeness of 1970s children’s book cover design
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It has been a long, at times, difficult week. So, to celebrate the fact it is Friday, here is a picture of my greatest cinema icon, Lee Marvin, chilling in a field of flowers
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To mark his birthday, here's my annual homage to the wonderful glasses of Michael Caine.
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“When I see POINT BLANK again I think: ‘How on earth did I get away with that?’ And DELIVERANCE is very compelling. The craftsmanship is good. And as for ZARDOZ, I don’t know what the hell it is."
Love this interview with John Boorman
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I had a fun doing my latest for
@CrimeReads
- 10 under appreciated & neglected American neo-noirs of the early 1970s. Includes some titles you may not have clocked & films I’m keen claim as neo noirs that are not normally seen as such. Enjoy.
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My stone cold favourite top 5 classic American film noirs:
KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950)
NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)
FORCE OF EVIL (1948)
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What are yours?
#Noirvember
#NoirvemberChallenge
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I love it when people give me pulp unsolicited because they think I will dig it. And I always do. Thanks, Danny, for this lovely Australian edition of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, republished by Sydney based Horwitz in 1961. What a stunning cover.
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Another shout out to the beauty of seventies young adult book cover illustration
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Today’s second hand score, this illustrated edition of J G Ballard’s THE DROWNED WORLD. The drawings are by Dick French & it was published by Dragon’s Dream, Holland, in 1981. Has anyone heard of them or seen this before?
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What a beautifully poignant & sad film GODS & MONSTERS (1998) is. Ian McKellan is brilliant, as always, but what a revelation Brendan Fraser is. Why is this film never mentioned in discussions related to pre-2000 queer cinema?
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This is your annual reminder that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
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Vale Honor Blackman. In addition to her role as Pussy Galore in GOLDFINGER (1964), she was a martial arts expert. Her book, ‘Honor Blackman’s Book of Self-Defence’, first published by Andre Deutsch in 1965, was amongst the first self-defence books aimed specifically at women
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Do I actually need a reason to post a cool B&W image of Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson on the set of John Boorman's POINT BLANK?
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Probably my favourite Marvel comic series was TOMB OF DRACULA. It was genuinely dark & deranged. It is also the only comic that I own the complete original run of.
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What!? You mean to tell me you didn't know that today is International ZARDOZ Day?
Just joking. Everyday is International Zardoz Day
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I just love these early 1970s Peter Chapman illustrations from the 1974 Australian children's book, MINUS FIVE & THE MOUNTAIN OF GOLD, published in 1974, by Golden Press in Sydney. Looking for gold underwater plus a shark! What more can a child want?
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Name an actor who may not always be the main character but always makes the movie they’re in better.
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Ricky Jay
Name an actor who may not always be the main character but always makes the movie they’re in better.
Antonio Fargas
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RIP Polish concentration camp survivor, Romeo Marber, who found great success as a cover designer for Penguin books in the 1960s. His innovative designs ushered in a new look for the publisher. I believe this is one of his covers, my 1963 edition of RED HARVEST
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In case you just logged onto Twitter and needed a reason not to immediately close your account and run screaming from the room, here's a picture of Elliot Gould and the muppets. Have a good day.
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Oh my fucking god, what I would give just to go one day without seeing some complete arsehat misusing the term ‘woke’ on my socials. Just one.
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I have to confess that I had never heard of the commercial illustrator Victor Ambrus, who has just died at the age of 91, but his art adorned so many of the books of my childhood. Indeed, it was probably the initial reason I read many of them
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I love Kubrick but for some reason have always been put off by BARRY LYNDON, which I have never seen. Not sure why, exactly. But it is worth seeing, yes (an 8.1 score on IMDB)? Anyway, it is playing this weekend on the big screen in Melbourne, so daughter & I are off to see it
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"Well, ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message."
Vale M. Emmet Walsh. You made every film you were in better.
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Seriously, is THE AMERICAN FRIEND Hopper’s best film? Not his creepiest or most batshit crazy role, but his best as an actor.
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This is your annual reminder that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
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A rare photo of Andrei Tarkovsky hosting the Price is Right
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Putting targets on the heads of world leaders was a major design feature of 1960s/1970s paperback suspense & thriller cover design
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There is no Ayn Rand quite like late 1970s British pulp Ayn Rand. Warning: contents may in no way correspond to the cover.
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Had a low regard for ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, but recently rewatched it & now think it’s one of the best Bonds. Lazenby is not too shabby, Rigg is one of most assertive ‘Bond women’, Savalas rocks it as Blofeld & it is the only entry with a genuine noir sensibility
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One of the greatest icons of troubled masculine cool, Lee Marvin, would've been 94 today if he hadn't have smoked and drank himself into an early grave at the age of just 63. Let's give him some much deserved love.
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My best score of the weekend. In the early 1960s Penguin’s London office did a short lived & very controversial deal with Australian pulp publisher Horwitz. This is one of the results, a 1962 Australian reprint of BRIGHTON ROCK with a garishly delicious cover. Incredibly rare.
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How cool is the cover of this Italian edition of Richard Matheson’s I AM LEGEND?
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Here's the cover for the third book I have co-edited for
@PMPressOrg
, DANGEROUS VISIONS & NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION, 1950-1985. Out around mid 2021, by which time it not will be nearly dystopian enough
#sciencefiction
#CoverReveal
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Writers, you should all have an author pic like ‘Denisa, Lady Newborough’, whose 1958 bio I found today. The cover is pretty good, too. When I first saw it I thought it was some lost occult book, but it is the story of her drinking & having sex across high society Europe
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Another rural second hand book shop, another well turned over wall of the most critically neglected genre - the western
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Further to my earlier post on Pan paperback art, some of my late father's Bond Pans, now mine. These are amongst the earliest paperback covers I can remember being aware of, spied on the bookshelf in my father's den. I was entranced by their energetic, carnal feel and tone
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Your favourite film noir in one image, nothing more. Hit me
#noir
#filmnoir
#Noirvember
#Noirvember2019
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Saw this in a secondhand bookshop today & thought of all those who responded to the Tweet below about the Bermuda Triangle
Like or RT this if you are old enough to remember when the Bermuda Triangle was one of the culture’s major supernatural obsessions
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I miss the days when popular culture was obsessed by the Bermuda Triangle. Does anyone ever talk about it any more? Do planes & ships still go missing?
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My writer ambition is now to have an author photo as cool as British author, Maurice Proctor, on the back of the 1957 Arrow edition of his book, HELL IS A CITY
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This is possibly the coolest on set image I have ever seen from John Boorman's 1967 film, POINT BLANK.
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Because Melbourne has been in lockdown, book scores have been few & far between, but here’s one. The 1958 edition of Gerald Kersh’s NIGHT AND THE CITY, the basis for Jules Dassin’s wonderful 1950 film of the same name.
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I am not sure who produced this masterpiece but it describes my authorial career to date perfectly.
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I have been waiting patiently for this book on science fiction art by
@AdamRRowe
aka
@70sscifi
to come out and looks absolutely stunning
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My celebration of the 50th anniversary of GET CARTER continues at my site with a look at the 1970 film, THE RECKONING. Nicol Williamson is a hard living businessman who heads to his home town in England's north, bent on revenge, a year before Jack Carter.
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What is your favourite Parker novel? A definite contender for me is THE HANDLE, originally published in 1966. Parker assembles a gang to knock over a casino on a island in the Gulf of Mexico. For my money contains some of the best putting the heist together scenes Westlake wrote
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Only just realised actor Max Julien died. He gets a lot of love for blaxsploitation films like THE MACK (1973), & rightly so. But his best role IMHO was as the doomed black militant in Jules Dassin’s terrific 1968 noir, UPTIGHT, a film which continues to be criminally under seen
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Vale Indigenous actor David Dalaithngu, perhaps better known to many as David Gulpilil. Five decades of incredible roles but it's this electrifying scene in Peter Weir's 1977 folk horror, THE LAST WAVE, I most remember him in. Australia always was always will be Aboriginal land
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Does anyone know anything about this book, THE HOUSE OF SOULS, published in London by Grant Richards in 1923, or it’s author, Arthur Machen? What about you
@memizon
@arkhamlibrarian
or
@StefanDz11
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‘I’m 50 yrs, divorced, would like to teach you things you don’t know.’
Yep, I think I’ve found the lead character of my next noir novel.
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Elliot Gould reads Raymond Chandler's THE BIG SLEEP. In fact, it appears he'd read all of Chandler's works.
This one goes out to all of you in any form of Covid lockdown. Take care.
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I’m just standing here, drinking a cup of coffee admiring my framed Italian poster of Don Siegel’s 1964 film, THE KILLERS. What are you up to?
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Going through my editor’s comments on the upcoming
@PMPressOrg
book I coedited on radical SF, 1950-1985. Over a year since I last looked at it & happy to confirm the essays read really well. I believe US folks can preorder it direct from publisher here
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It’s Graham Greene’s birthday. Totally unrelated, this just happens to be my current read. Written in 1936, a taunt little noir full of murder & double dealing, set in a world on the brink of global war.
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Amid the uncertainty gripping the world, one thing is true. THE SHIELD is a far better television show than THE WIRE.
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In the pre-Covid-19 world, this week would've seen my PhD graduation ceremony at
@Macquarie_Uni
Obviously, that didn't happen. Also found out that my dissertation on history of Aust pulp fiction was awarded a VC's commendation for academic excellence. Now to get it published.
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What was that? You wanted to see my entire collection of Donald Westlake/Richard Stark books? Well, if you insist.
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Reorganising my bookshelves today & found this. THE HAMLYN BOOK OF HORROR, published by Hamlyn in 1979. A gift from my late parents in a Christmas past & for many years one of my most treasured possessions. Did you ever have this
@ScarredForLife2
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Do you ever re-read of a book solely because you’ve found a beautiful/interesting looking copy of something you already have & like? I do. My latest is this 1995 Vintage edition of AMERICAN TABLOID I found in an thrift store this week. Already own it but I dig this cover so much
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On the occasion of Gene Hackman's 90th birthday, your reminder that he starred in one of the greatest crime films of the 1970s, Arthur Penn's NIGHTMOVES. There are many strange & wonderful things about this film, including the best post coital fondue scene every put on screen.
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Today's pulp fiction throwback: Kim Novak perusing paperbacks at a Los Angeles store, circa 1956
#noirvember
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There’s one thing I can’t take my eyes off in this pulp cover, and that’s the couch. Art by Fred Fixler
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This alt right meme is actually spot on. This is EXACTLY the future I want.
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Just watched a film in which the denouement involved quicksand. Am I the only one who was obsessed by quicksand in their youth? A constant in TV & film & I can remember trying to make it in the back yard on several occasions by hosing dirt but it never seemed to work
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The last celebrity saved to your phone is the new Doctor Who (I win).
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Jesus H Christ, Adam Curtis stand aside, whoever this review is needs his own 16 part series talking about post-industrial culture. Seriously watch it.
Urgently need a full televised documentary series from this TikTok pub reviewer
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I love how there is increasing chatter on Twitter in the lead-up to the release of Denis Villeneuve DUNE. But think Lynch's version is far better than it is given credit for. As part of this, I think we need to talk more about that wonderful pug
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Every alt right small dicked white guy with an assault rifle wants to be the Punisher now
Man carrying rifle outside courthouse at Rittenhouse trial questioned by police
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Only one second hand book score today. Replaces my copy that went missing years ago.
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Name a film almost universally thought of as terrible, that you genuinely think is actually a worthy classic. I'll go first, Lewis Gilbert's THE ADVENTURERS (1970). A glorious, sprawling distillation of the culture's pre-occupations, fascinations & fantasy's as they were in 1970
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Happy 84th birthday Mr Moorcock. May you have many more tasty years ahead of you
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