David Hering
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Writer | Critic | Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize finalist | Literature, cinema, visual arts | Writing a book about ghosts | David Berman, we miss you
Joined February 2013
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 below:
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A masterpiece. Where to begin? The confidence man, the drifter, the archetypal American anti-hero, the country around him in pieces. Almost Bressonian in places. Reichardt’s amazing eye for textures - paint, fabric, metal, brick. O’Connor is astonishing. Loved it beyond words
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LFF Film #7: The Mastermind. My final film of this festival. So thrilled to see new Kelly Reichardt
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I promise I’m not down on films like this all the time! It’s just two in a row. One more tonight which I’m convinced will break the streak
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This was…not great 😬
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I was ready and willing to be moved and it left me stone cold. Particularly striking coming after two days of straight up excellent and interesting cinema (Bi Gan, Lav Diaz, Mona Fastvold, Julia Ducournau)
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Lifelessly tasteful prestige weepie. Very uneven set of performances. Endless ‘that’s a line from the play’ moments. Clanging symbolism. Music slathered all over everything. Instrumentalises a great work of art for cheap sentiment. Shocked by how much I disliked it
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Oh man this was terrible
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Opening of ‘Good Old Neon’: “My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people”
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Much of the horror that greeted the posthumous stories of how DFW treated people was due to precisely the dissonance between the public image and the reality. Before he died there was comparatively little discussion of how the work reflected/obscured the life
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What’s interesting about this and the responses to it is that DFW absolutely was not apathetic but worked studiously to cultivate an unbothered public Gen X-y image. This process is what a huge chunk of his writing is actually about, much of it barely even concealed
DFW had sex appeal because he was so apathetic. Low maintenance, unpretentious. Can you imagine him thinking about "macros" or his step count
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It’s a big swing, and when it works it’s really good, but it comes somewhat loose in the last half hour. Works best when it’s not being a 1:1 allegory
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Will probably write in more detail about this but…this film has some of the best moments of Ducournau’s career, but it’s not nearly as thrilling or coherent as Titane or Raw. Feels like a calculated move away from the earlier mode. Tahar Rahim is excellent. Odd music cues
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I’ve had the misfortune to walk through central London this weekend for the first time in ages - the shops now consist entirely of Pret, money laundering fronts and boutiques that sell a teddy bear wearing braces for £499
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A monumental picture. Took a full 15 minutes to adjust back to the world afterwards
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Me watching The Last of England aged 14: Yes, I understand this
Being into movies at a young age is hilarious bc wtf was I doing watching Au Hasard Balthazar at 16
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