[gasp] “A Tape Recorder! A Gun! What A Great Setup For A Film”

Escape from New York (1981)

dir. John Carpenter

Katzenversammlung (The Cats’ Assembly) by Quint Buccholz, 1995

The Terminator (1984), dir. James Cameron

Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep (2019) dir. Mike Flanagan

Winter in Northern Germany :) I noticed on my last train ride that you can't easily find this sort of wintery landscape on Google, where everything is cheesy thick blankets of snow on pine trees, terribly oversatured colours and a general overdose of kitsch. So, here goes far skies, colourful greys and a feeling of melacnholic wistfulness.

Oh, and if I might recommend a good wintery soundtrack to that: Zorya by Czech artist Tomáš Dvořák, alias Floex https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/6Ed3AofNpF8OXD5BtgPUeR

“People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”

THE CROW (1994) - dir. Alex Proyas

Darkman (1990) dir.  Sam Raimi

Jed portrayed the shapeshifting alien taking the form of a Norwegian dog in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). Jed was half-wolf, half Canadian malamute, and according to Carpenter, was an excellent animal actor—after becoming familiar with the cast and crew, he would not look at the camera, crew, or dolly during scenes. Jed’s quiet manner perfectly reflected the alien’s unsettling nature. Jed would go on to act in a few other movies, and lived on his trainer Clint Rowe’s animal sanctuary until his death at age eighteen—quite old for a dog of his breed.