Yesterday was the last day of this year's Offscreen Film Festival. Farewell - untiul next year! www.instagram.com/stories/offs...
Offscreen Film Festival
@offscreenff.bsky.social
Offscreen Film Festival takes place for 3 weeks every March at Cinema Nova, Cinematek, Cinema Aventure & Cinema RITCS in Brussels. We celebrate cutting-edge cinema, cult films & all the genres from B to Z. https://www.offscreen.be/en
The @offscreenff.bsky.social team finishes the 19th edition of the festival at Bouillon in Brussels.
Our 19th edition finishes today with one final slice of Spanish genre perversity: Bigas Luna's CANICHE (1979), 16h30 at Cinematek (zoophilia alert!); & our closing film, 18h30 at Cinema Nova: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's A USEFUL GHOST: delightful supernatural whimsy - with a devastating payoff.
Today at Offscreen: SUBURBAN FURY, Robinson Devor's documentary about the housewife who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, 17h00 at Cinema Nova; followed by two films in the Only in America? Delusions of Democracy module: WINTER KILLS (1979) at 19h00 & NETWORK (1976) at 21h30, both at Nova.
Tonight at @offscreenff.bsky.social I'll be introducing William Richert's mad all-star political conspiracy thriller WINTER KILLS (1979), Cinema Nova 7pm. Adapted from a novel by Richard Condon also wrote THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE); the story behind the film is as wild & crazy as the film itself.
Spanish genre blu-ray giveaway! See Offscreen's Instagram account!
Today at Offscreen: BARRIO TRISTE, a Dante-esque voyage to the gritty heart of a Medellín favela, 19h at Nova; THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976), 21h30 at Nova; lost Spanish masterpiece POACHERS (1975), 19h at Cinematek; FACES (1978), erotic, possibly supernatural Lanzarote mystery, 21h at Cinematek.
THE FURIOUS! I wanted this for @offscreenff.bsky.social (though it's not strictly an Offscreen kind of film) but it wasn't to be. Kidnapped kid = that's the plot. Trailer makes it look brutal, but MVP is fight choreography which you don't see that much of here: INCREDIBLE. Best since THE RAID!
The Furious (2026) Official Trailer - Xie Miao, Joe Taslim
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So glad I took a chance on there still being tickets for Hard Target at Cinematek tonight. An amazing film to round off my @offscreenff.bsky.social experience for this year.
John Woo goes Hollywood with HARD TARGET (1993) starring famous Belgian Jean-Claude Van Damme + hair extensions. Excuse for the Belgian accent? He's Cajun! Highlights: motorbike stunt! Lance Henriksen's coat is on fire! JCVD wrestles a rattlesnake! Cinematek, 21h30 www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
Check out Offscreen's brilliant Instagram account - more exciting than here! Highlights of the festival plus treats to come! www.instagram.com/stories/offs...
Tonight at @offscreenff.bsky.social I'll be introducing BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL (2025), an enthralling documentary about John Boorman's ill-fated sequel to THE EXORCIST 19h Cinematek, Brussels. Followed at 21h15 by the film itself - EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (1977). www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
Today at Offscreen: a Harry Kümel double-bill at Cinema RITCS in Brussels! Kümel will be present in person to introduce THE COMING OF JOACHIM STILLER (1976) at 18h30 followed by Euro-vampire cult classic DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS at 22h00.
My new novel – Model Actress Whatever – is due from Titan Books in May. I’ve commissioned a series of mock-up comic book covers from ace artist Paul McCaffrey to visualise the world of MAW. More details here ... johnnyalucard.com/2024/11/01/n...
New Kim Newman novel – Model Actress Whatever
This week’s mock-up comic cover from Paul McCaffrey, to tie in with my out-in-May novel Model Actress Whatever, introduces the current incarnation of the UK’s long-standing national her…
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Am very convinced we need to give this particular madman the role of the doctor now He’s a short tom baker at this point
Delightful Instagram reel from Ben Wheatley about his trip to Offscreen in Brussels with producer Andy Starke for Friday night's screening of BULK at Nova - "Super cool church of cinema" www.instagram.com/p/DWJmjjtiIUP/
Francophone Belgium's equivalent of the Academy is named in honour of director André Delvaux, but it failed to mention his centenary at its awards ceremony this month. The Dardenne brothers lead a protest at this slight and broader neglect of Delvaux's legacy.
La Libre@lalibre.be · 5mo agoAndré Delvaux a 100 ans et son œuvre attend dans le noir !
Today at Offscreen: Robert Altman's NASHVILLE (1975), 14h at Nova; Harmony Korine's BABY INVASION (2024), 17h at Nova; Yūta Shimotsu's NEW GROUP, 19h at Nova; Ivan Zulueta's cult classic/arthouse horror ARREBATO (1979), 21h30 at Nova. Meanwhile, 19h at Cinematek: John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)
"Is it a horror or a comedy? Whatever it is, it will be fun": Yûta Shimotsu’s coming-of-age satire NEW GROUP (2025) "tests how a schoolgirl’s individuality shapes up against society’s collective structures". Screens 7pm tonight at @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2025/11/01/n...
New Group (2025) - Projected Figures
Yûta Shimotsu's coming-of-age horror satire NEW GROUP tests how a schoolgirl's individuality shapes up against society's structures
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Iván Zulueta’s vampiric post-Franco ‘hallucinema’ is a triangle of eros, addiction and filmmaking, rooting its horror in absence and elision: ARREBATO (RAPTURE, 1979) screens 9.30pm tonight at Cinema Nova, @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/04/21/a...
Arrebato (Rapture) (1979) - Projected Figures
Iván Zulueta's post-Franco ARREBATO is a triangle of eros, heroin & filmmaking, rooting its horror in what is absent, elided & unseen.
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There’s something about Sandra Hüller’s performance in PROJECT HAIL MARY, both precise and effortless. She softens the edges of a character who, in the book, was a bit one-dimensional and annoying, making her far more human. And that karaoke scene!
On Great Marlborough Street in London W1, Sean Connery makes a telephone call from 'The Frightened City'. www.reelstreets.com/...
Today at @offscreenff.bsky.social I shall be introducing LA CASA SIN FRONTERAS aka THE HOUSE WITHOUT FRONTIERS (1972), Brussels Cinematek at 17h; followed by NO PROFONAR EL SUEÑO DE LOS MUERTOS aka THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE aka LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE (1974), Brussels Cinematek at 21h30.
Today at Offscreen: Symposium on Cult Film (what does the word "cult" even mean now etc?) 13h at Nova; Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR 17h at Nova; from Norway - Patrik Syversen presents his film DAWNING (think Ingmar Bergman meets New French Extremity) 19h at Nova; John Woo's HARD BOILED 21h30 at Nova.
De la farce féroce au film d'anticipation glaçant : pourquoi NETWORK reste aussi brûlant d'actualité ? Retour sur le film phare de Lumet avec l'équipe du festival @offscreenff.bsky.social transmissionlepodcast.com/network-prop...
NETWORK : PROPHÉTIE CATHODIQUE - Transmission
OFFSCREEN 2026 Depuis quelques années, nous avons accumulé divers contenus réalisés au cœur du BIFFF (Brussels International Festival Of Fantasy Films). Ceci étant, cela ne nous a pas empêché de conti...
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Today at Offscreen: Ben Wheatley & producer Andrew Starke present BULK, film-making with a delirious DIY aesthetic, 9pm at Nova. At 9.30pm Peter Watkins' terrifying faux-doc PUNISHMENT PARK (1971) is the centrepiece of AN AMERICAN NIGHT(MARE) programme of clips & trailers. www.offscreen.be/en
Today at Offscreen: short films at Nova! + John Woo (THE KILLER!) continues at Cinematek + Spanish genre double THE KILLER OF DOLLS & MACUMBA SEXUAL at Aventure! + our 1970s US mini-module gets going with Robert Aldrich's TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING at Nova! www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
The Black Phone in the Cinema Nova foyer at @offscreenff.bsky.social (La Cabina = the short film that traumatised a generation of Spaniards & anyone else who saw it) There was screaming.
