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Anton Bitel

Anton Bitel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Dr Anton Bitel was born in Australia in 1970, and has lived in the UK since 1989. Now a father of twins, occasional academic and full-time caffeine junkie, he compensates for a general sense of disgruntlement by moping about in darkened cinemas watching other people's joys and sorrows. He seeks elusive thrills from all genres (even romantic comedy), but tends to prefer anything extreme, odd, miserable or tawdry. He is at home with horror, 'arthouse', the avant garde and Oriental cinema. Anton currently freelances for Film4, musicOMH (where he is a staff writer), Eye for Film, Film International and Little White Lies, and was for three years one of the principal contributors to the now semi-defunct Movie Gazette.

Favorites:

Eraserhead Brazil Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring Apocalypse Now The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) M. Houlot's Holiday Ichi the Killer Last Year in Marienbad Batman (1966) Synecdoche, New York

Location:

Oxford, UK

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop: Season 1 (2023) EDIT “an exhilarating, exhausting tribute to Verhoeven’s infectious movie-making mania” – Little White Lies Dec 23, 2023 Full Review Connect: Season 1 (2022) 86% EDIT “this is the story of two different monsters: one who desperately seeks immortality through his perverted art, and another who has had a more literal immortality thrust upon him. As these two eyeball one another... Miike draws out their contrasts” – Sight & Sound Dec 20, 2022 Full Review The Haunting of Bly Manor: Season 1 (2020) 88% EDIT “Between the narrative poles of an engagement and a wedding (with several funerals in between), Flanagan finds romance in James's gothic and, as with Hill House and Doctor Sleep (2019), he leaves his own muddy imprint in another's haunted hallways.” – Sight & Sound Oct 9, 2020 Full Review Dark Stories: Season 1 EDIT “Christine may seem helpless, but her mastery of different subgenres (monsters, ghosts, zombies, djinns, aliens) matches that of the filmmakers, and her careful control of mood ensures that she has her murder-happy audience right where she wants him” – Sight & Sound Aug 28, 2020 Full Review Into the Dark: Season 2, Episode 1 (2019) EDIT “Perhaps it is all a metaphor for the zero-sum game which millennials find themselves forced to play in a system rigged against them.” – Sight & Sound Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Into the Dark: Season 1, Episode 1 (2018) 4/5 EDIT “Playing willl-they-won't-they with both love and death, it is a memento mori and an existential appeal for a more liberated life.” – SciFiNow Jan 11, 2019 Full Review
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