@joshnelsonfilm
Doctor of Film. Writer in hiding. Recovering critic. Commentariat for hire. Contributor for Arrow; Indicator; Imprint; Umbrella; Kino Lorber; Second Sight; Vinegar Syndrome, BFI and others… http://linktr.ee/joshnelsonfilm
My piece on Harmony Korine’s JULIEN DONKEY-BOY is the “and more!” I’ve been busting to put pen to paper on the film for aeons - and in the company of such stellar writers too! (High time JULIEN was given a proper Blu-ray treatment… c’mon distributors, make it happen!)
John Frankenheimer's 1977 thriller, Black Sunday, is making its UK debut on Blu-ray today courtesy of Arrow @arrowvideo.bsky.social. Really pleased to have contributed to the extras on this release, along with Josh Nelson @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social & the mighty Barry Forshaw @barryf48.bsky.social.
A booklet of And The Man Next To You: Everyone Who Dies in UNDER SIEGE.
Exciting mail today: Arrow Video's UNDER SIEGE with my collected stories inside! So nice to have them in print, over a decade after they were written. (And you can read them online if you want, too: martynpedler.com/and-the-man-...)
Kino Lorber have just announced a new 4k of one of my favourite slashers, 1980's TERROR TRAIN with Jamie Lee Curtis. Includes a brand new commentary track from myself and masked villain @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social 💜
"...every frame looks like it’s been forged in dragon fire. Boorman didn’t make a polite medieval epic. He made myth, stripped naked and screaming."
Pumped to announce this new blu from Kino Lorber of my favourite Oliver Stone film, the deeply underrated TALK RADIO. A shocking film more relevant today than ever, Eric Bogosian should have swept awards season. Shared audio commentary duties with @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social, its one of our best ❤️
🚨🚨 CHARLES BRONSON SQUAD ASSEMBLE! My favourite CB film Rider on the Rain has just been announced on 4k from our mates at Kino Lorber. Includes a new audio commentary by myself and @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social (our 45th together, for those keeping count!)
🚨🚨 LONG LIVE FRENCH-ERA CHARLES BRONSON!
If you grab the recent Arrow blu of HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS that I was lucky enough to help curate critical extras for, you get my + @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social's audio commentary, essays from @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @antbit.projectedfigures.com + @bavalamp.bsky.social and lots, lots more!
One of the funniest people to ever walk this earth. This is bullshit.
A thoroughly devastating and incomprehensible loss. (At a time of daily horrors this one hits even harder). Genuinely difficult to imagine our screens without O’Hara’s vibrant glow.
Awesome to see this announced! I contributed a booklet essay about the score and Jerry Goldsmith’s collaborations with Joe Dante
Hate nazis? Love horror on the high seas? A fan of George Kennedy, Dick Crenna & Nick Mancuso? Well have I got the film (and audio commentary with @horrornonna.com) for you…
I share a deep passion for boat horror with @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social, and we were so tickled to get to do an audio commentary for Death Ship together!
Look I know there's a lot on right now, but Kino Lorber just announced a 4k release of Alvin Rakoff's classic 1980 Nazi ghost ship banger DEATH SHIP, which includes an audio commentary by myself and @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social, and another by the fabulous @paulcorupe.bsky.social. On pre-order now!
Glorious! Massive congratulations on marshalling all those forces to unleash this beast into the world. An epic undertaking. 👑
New 4K UHD edition of Excalibur from Arrow Video. The pic shows the contents and packaging: Rigid slipcase, amaray and sleeve, double-sided poster, six art cards, 120page book and three discs. all artwork is by Bob Peak from the original release poster options. vibrant, and filled with reflections and refractions like the light that glints and glows in the film.
Behold, the Sword of Power! Excalibur! For anyone waiting for things from me, this is why: my brain has been consumed by John Boorman and Excalibur, both of them dear to my heart. The restoration is stunning, and finally presents the film in the right aspect ratio on home video... 🧵1/8
A Blu-ray set for the house with laughing windows, including a book, slip case, and a poster
Damn @arrowvideo.bsky.social did you have to go so hard with THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS? Look at this!
Last time I saw this movie was a mostly pink, faded and battered 35mm print. Excited to see it in 4K (and with a commentary by @horrornonna.com and @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social 🤌🏼)!
All you need to make a movie is:
- a gun and a girl
- a boy and his dog
- a ghost and their house
- a doomed documentary crew and their project
- Charles Bronson
“But you didn’t have to cut me up,
make out like a God but leave me without a companion…”
Add for Colecione Classicos's new blu-ray release of Kindergarten Cop, under the title UM TIRA NO JARDIM DE INFÂNCIA. Includes a translation of the audio commentary by Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
BRAZIL! The commentary I recorded for Kindergarten Cop with my film-brother @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social has been translated for this new blu-ray release from the team at Colecione Classicos, now on pre-order! Big thanks to @joaomennabarreto.bsky.social ❤️
www.colecioneclassicos.com.br/dyvwodopj
Such sad news. Struzan WAS film art for me growing up. A few years back I splashed out on a GOONIES poster signed by Drew that now hangs in pride of place in my office. Feels even more precious today. He was truly iconic. Vale sir.
Absolute legend.
But really, *those* are the movies we're naming? She won an Oscar for ANNIE HALL and more than held her own with an all-star cast in the GODFATHER films.
Chain reactions poster in orange yellow black and white shows a sunset with Muybridge like series of black silhouettes of Leatherface wielding his chainsaw
Now on pre-order! The UK blu-ray of Alexandre Philippe's Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS is live. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it features Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama + your girl right here!
www.amazon.co.uk/Chain-Reacti...
My (younger) sister just watched DELIVERANCE for the first time and wasn’t impressed. In other news, I now have no sister.
I've been sitting on this one for a while, but I am SO PROUD to have helped co-produce the critical extras and provide a brand new audio commentary (with @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social) for Arrow's spectacular brand new 4k release of Pupi Avati's iconic 1976 giallo THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS 🏠🤣🔪🎨
Just read a review of my commentary track on COBRA (with @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social) that described it as "prepared, but with off-the-cuff wisecracks". This is what I want on my tombstone.
“It’s ridiculous. You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office, that’s just not how this works.”
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DC Comics is happy to make money off various abusive writers and artists... but not a trans woman who was mean about someone who hated her and everyone like her.
Get in losers, we MODERN GIRLS fans are gonna unionize - CC @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social and @bobfreelander.bsky.social
A joy to co-produce this with Neil, includes critical extras from the dream team of @priscillapage.bsky.social @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social @brndnstrssng.bsky.social and Chris Alexander, with art by @pye.bsky.social 💜