Dr Kate Fitzgerald

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Writer, hound mother, goat botherer, film dingus, AuDHD, she/her. "Too shouty." - Everyone ever.

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Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 11

Face I'm submitting for my Bluesky verification. I haven’t decided yet. Subtle tears? Lavish tears? Bloody nose or full stab?

Three stills of Isabelle Huppert in THE PIANO TEACHER. She is in close up, her hair pulled back, with tired, red rimmed eyes that fill with more tears in each successive frame.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 10

Reminds me of this photo. Floor to ceiling’s the only way to go, I reckon.

Black-and-white photo of Shirley Jackson writing at a desk surrounded by floor to ceiling bookshelves. She’s wearing a plaid shirt, her hair is shoulder length and wavy and she is wearing her usual horn-rimmed spectacles.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 10

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Punks, punks, titty goblin, absolute misery. “Let’s go get sushi and not pay!”

My last four watched on Letterboxd: RED ROOMS (2023) dir. Pascal Plante, 4 stars; TILBURY (1987) dir. Viðar Víkingsson, 2.5 stars; UGH! A MUSIC WAR (1981) dir. Derek Burbidge, no rating as it’s a concert film with some great acts and some not-so-great acts, but 5 stars for Gary Numan’s moving Davros chair and Klaus Nomi for being Klaus Nomi. Started Harry Dean month on the Criterion Channel, he’s in REPO MAN more than I thought and I was previously put off by the poster, as I wasn’t particularly interested in Emilio Estevez looking all tough in front of a car. Anyway, REPO MAN (1984) dir. Alex Cox, 4 stars, I’m sorry Tarantino stole your whole ‘mysterious locked vessel that glows when opened’ thing.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 6

I tell a lie, it was “Too much vomit?” However, the big circle was still angry.

Close up of a pencilled comment on a manuscript that reads: “too much vomit?”

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 6

What horror movie image haunts you? I’m not going to post the one I thought of first because it’s kind of a spoiler, but it’s near the end of A DARK SONG. This’ll do:

Screenshot from TOBY DAMMIT, the third and final story in the anthology film SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (1968). A young girl with long, blonde hair stands inside a thick fog looking sideways through a lock of hair that has fallen over her face. She’s pale and sinister, wearing a white dress with puffed sleeves. She is clutching a silver ball.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 4

Developing a theory about the jackalope on Lestat’s tour bus that will blow your minds. One might say it IS about the bunny. Follow me for more tips on how to boost your productivity and intellectual prowess.

Screenshot from episode 4 of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT showing Daniel (Eric Bogosian) a man in his 70s with curly grey hair wearing tinted glasses and a maroon shirt, sitting in front of a jackalope—a taxidermied rabbit with antlers attached to it’s head.

Close up of the jackalope. It’s either judging the viewer, or knows something we don’t. Perhaps both?

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jul 3

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Quite possibly the oddest lineup yet. It’s been an erratic week. No writing, but still researching. Me back’s been playin’ up.

My last for watched on Letterboxd: PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dirs. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 3 stars; THE UNKNOWN GIRL (2016) dirs. Jeanne-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 4 stars; CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965) dir. Orson Welles, 3.5 stars and KEVIN TURVEY: THE MAN BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR (1982) dir. Colin Gilbert, 3 stars, all for the bit with Roger Sloman kicking the shit out of Rik Mayall.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 29

Pic for reference. All that aside, I don’t really want to see everyone from NOSFERATU again, at least not so soon. For me, it might break the immersion a bit. And maybe just…I dunno, give other actors a chance?

Lily-Rose Depp on the set of WERWULF. She is wearing a costume that looks characteristic of a peasant from the 1300s; a long dress under a big brown dirty coat, a thin belt around her waist, a white cowl around her face with something similar to a nun habit over that. It’s a darker brown than her coat; kinda on the maroon side. It’s clear that they have made her body much larger than it is naturally. They’ve also given her a cleft palate, a congenital disability.

I didn’t say it in the main post because it’s a bit petty and I’m kind of bored of the discourse, but I’d like to see less “nepo babies”. She was great in NOSFERATU, but I don’t want her turning up in every future Eggers project the way her asshole father did in Tim Burton movies. BORING.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 28

Breaking News: Australian Prime Minister Samuel Reid wears little piggy tails with bows in.

Screenshot of Sam Reid as Lestat in the latest episode of The Vampire Lestat, performing shirtless in makeup. His long blonde hair is tied into two messy pigtails with black bows in them.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 26

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky Yowza. I'll be busy Dekalogging next week. Also, possibly, maybe, depending on the state of my brain; finishing up a new newsletter. It's about someone who appears in two of the titles below.

My last four watched on Letterboxd: THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (1969) dir. Sydney Pollack; GIRLS AT 12 (1975) dir. Joyce Chopra; DEERSKIN (2019) dir. Quentin Dupieux and THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (2015) dir. Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 24

You are SICK And you’re MARRIED And you MIGHT BE DYIIIIING

Cover of Phoebe Bridgers’ 2020 album ‘Punisher’. The cover depicts a rocky desert at night. Phoebe is in the centre of the frame, looking small compared to the tall rocks in the background. She is looking up at a bright red light that is beaming down on her. She’s wearing a skeleton onesie.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 22

Who’s your favourite movie dad?

Still from AFTERSUN (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells. Calum (Paul Mescal) a tall man in his 30s with short brown hair wearing a white T-shirt, hugs his 11 year old daughter Sophie (Frankie Corin). She has shoulder length brown hair and is wearing a black tshirt with white stripes on the sleeve. She is clinging to him with a worried expression on her face.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 19

The bussy joke for context.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 19

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky There is a kid in DROWNING BY NUMBERS called 'Smut'. I'm a complete chilld so I thought "I hope everyone in THE DEBUSSY FILM put their full DeBUSSY into it" Then Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell read my mind (with a less cotemporary portmanteau of couse.)

My last four watched on Letterboxd. Left to Right: DROWNING BY NUMBERS (1988) dir. Peter Greenaway, 4.5 stars; THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965) dir. Ken Russell, 3.5 stars; TURNING THE ART WORLD INSIDE OUT (2013) dir. Alan Yentob, 2.5 stars and EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: HOW THE SEX 'N' DRUGS 'N' ROCK 'N' ROLL GENERATION SAVED HOLLYWOOD (2013) dir. Kenneth Bowser, 3 stars.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 19

Can't believe it's Andrei Rublev day again! Get out your flap hats, look tired and pensive at all times, get tied up by a pagan, and most importantly, rescue a gifted child from his deadbeat dad.

Kate is in a black knitted hood with long flaps hanging down the front that looks like the monk’s headwear in Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV. She has unsuccessfully tried to emulate the black snd white colour grading of the film. She looks tired and has dark circles around her eyes due to some recent dark nights of the soul. Her hair is brown, past shoulder length, and she is wearing a white Victorian nightgown. The hat is meant to be tied in the front like a winter bonnet and scarf combo.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 18

I’d say that’s a Tonka bulldozer, and they’re upwards of about $50, but I would suggest everyone go and find a knock off (any big plastic vehicle will do) and peg them at these women making “brrr” noises at every opportunity.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 17

I've looked everywhere, but just to be sure, the town in FASTER, PUSSYCAT, KILL! KILL! isn't actually called 'Tittfield', is it? I'm hoping not, otherwise this poster won't be funny anymore.

The German poster for the film we call FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL! KILL! (1965) dir. Russ Meyer, except in Germany it is called DAS SATANSWEIBER VON TITTFIELD, which loosely translates as: THE SHE-DEVILS OF TITTFIELD. The tagline translates as: "three she-devils who play with love and life".

The poster also features an image of the three lead actresses: Haji, a woman with long black hair wearing a sleeveless white top with a racing stripe across the chest, tight black jeans and black knee-high boots; Lori Williams, a blonde woman with shoulder-length hair that curls up at the ends in a very 60s manner, wearing a white crop top, white hotpants and white gogo boots and Tura Satana, a woman with long black hair and a blunt, black fringe wearing a black top with a plunging neckline, tight black jeans and black boots. All three have their hands on their hips and are smiling/laughing. And yes, there is an abundance of tits in the field.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 14

Horniest scene in the history of cinema.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 12

I thought David Hockney died years ago. But what do I know? Only yesterday, I learned the guy who created the kid’s show ‘Henry’s Cat’ made dirty cartoons (including one about a talking wang) and that the song ‘All That She Wants’ is, in fact, not about a woman who loves being pregnant.

Screenshot from the Genius website analysing the lyrics for ‘All That She Wants’ by Ace of Base.

Transcript follows:

“All that she wants is another baby”
Genius Annotation
1 contributor:
For over two decades, depending on their own personal interpretation, fans wondered whether this line referred to a licentious woman or one who literally just
wanted to have another child.
In a 2015 interview with Billboard, writer Jonas Berggren set the record straight:
"baby" does, in fact, mean "lover".
Those [types of] women can be fantastic sometimes. But not all the time. It depends how you suffer from it.”

Jonas sounds like a dick.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 9

A page from one of the Moomin books, featuring an illustration of Little My sliding down a hill. The text underneath reads: “When you’re angry, then you’re angry,” thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. “Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry.”

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 8

Happy Pride, everyone.

The demisexual flag: a black triangle near the hoist beside three horizontal stripes: white, purple, and gray.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 8

Though I’m sure Singer would still be a transphobe regardless, a pattern seems to have developed in recent years wherein veteran academics with bruised egos resent new contributions to knowledge as though it renders their own work obsolete.

Screenshot of a bluesky post from Judy Singer. She has quoted a post by Benjamin Ryan that reads: “Pressure by Transgender Activists Forces Washington State University To Suspend Courses Critical of Medical Gender Treatments forMinors.

Judy adds: “How disgusting when an institution of higher learning kowtows to a group of lowlife malevolent female impersonators wanting to preen and perv in Women's private spaces. I bet if there were Transtoilets, the number of Trans "some" would tank.”

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 6

Yourself, but as a cartoon.

Screenshot from WATERSHIP DOWN (1978). Kehaar, a black and white seagull, sticks his head out from a patch of long grass. He looks ropable.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 2

Unprepared teacher swiftly presses the stop button as students groan in disappointment.

Warning notice at the beginning of a vhs copy of Peter Greenaway’s A TV DANTE (1990), likely released through an education distributor. It reads: WARNING: INSTRUCTORS SHOULD PREVIEW THIS TAPE. THIS PROGRAM DEPICTS PEOPLE IN THE INFERNO. ALTHOUGH IT IS AN ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION BY AN AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR, THESE SCENES MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE TO SOME.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· Jun 1

Left: Early teens. Right: Late teens.

Poster for INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994). For a movie with such good production design, it’s a fugly poster, with or without the Scientologist.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· May 29

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky “ I cry at the start of every movie. I guess, cause I wish I was making things too.” Finally got to see my girl. Other observations: - Pamela Brown looks like Jodie Comer. - Seahorses are the best fish.

My last 4 watched on Letterboxd.

THE FAR COUNTRY (1965) dir Jean Rollin, 2.5 stars.

THE SEAHORSE (1935) dir. Jean Painlevé, 5 stars.

I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (1945) dirs. Micheal Powell and Emeric Pressburger. 4 stars.

MITSKI: THE LAND (2025) dir. GrantJames. 5 stars.

Screenshot of Pamela Brown in I KNOW WHERE IM GOING! She is leaning near a window, has long black hair, the top pulled off her face with a headband.

Black and white photo of Jodie Comer. She is sitting with her elbows on the table wearing a black leather jacket. She seems to be wearing dark eye makeup

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· May 25

Why am I like this? You can blame: 'Janice' & 'The Renegade' by Shirley Jackson Black Phillip Margarita Pracatan "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the window pane." Sparkling water Jean Marsh & Pauline Moran. They know what they did. Popper from Baldur's Gate 3 Her:

Screenshot from STALKER (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. A young girl wearing a brown head scarf lays her head on a stone table. She is staring at a half-filled glass of wine at the opposite end of the table.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· May 22

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky And it’s 5 stars for the sad, weird little girl. Quelle surprise.

My last four watched on Letterboxd: WOLF’S HOLE (1987) dir. Věra Chytilová 3 1/2 stars, TOWN BLOODY HALL (1979) dirs. D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus 3 stars, BULLFIGHT (1955) dir. Shirley Clarke 3 stars and CRIA CUERVOS…(aka CRIA!) (1976) dir. Carlos Saura 5 stars.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· May 20

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone. We can bring her back, surely.

Screen shot of Shelley Winters in WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO?with her crazy eyes.

Dr Kate Fitzgerald@katefitzgerald· May 19

Forget sharing the last picture you saved, I want to see the very first picture on your phone. Scroll back until your fingers bleed. ———- Check the 2009 Instagram filter. Poor thing, I want to give her a hug.