We’re back to service as normal – except for one small omissions (oops). On this week’s show we look at the first part of Hiroshi Inagaki’s classic trilogy “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto”, Alex Cox’s “Sid & Nancy”, a Werner Rainer Fassbinder double bill of “Fox & His Friends” and “Chinese […]
Month: September 2016
Electra My Love (1974) The world’s finest historical, political dance movie (Review)
Whether Slovak, Hungarian or South East Asian, a country’s cinematic output requires a degree of cultural and historical context; add (the) former Czechoslovakia, and you have the cross-section that makes up the DNA of Second Run’s remit. Nuances naturally occur, but the consistencies in these nations are modern histories demarcated […]
Carmen Jones (1954) Influential Black Musical with a weird relationship to race (Review)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) A beautifully photographed diamond in the rough (Review)
Two years after he dropped the critically lauded Sidney Poitier picture, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Stanley Kramer flew over to Italy to begin what-would-be his next big feature, an adaptation of Robert Crichton’s first novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Kramer, the acclaimed director behind the courtroom drama, Judgement […]
Literary Loitering 47 – Anglo-Saxon Trolling
UNESCO have finally listed the Exeter Book as a principal cultural artefact. In other news, researchers prove that Batman is the most ill-equipped superhero, and William S. Burroughs reading The Naked Lunch will be released as an experimental punk album. Our featured book is the short story anthology Mash Up […]
4-Panel 57 – Big Green Johnny Bravo
With the announcement that Michael B. Jordan will star in the Black Panther movie and a casting call for Wolverine 3, we also discover that Marvel are developing animated TV shows for Ant-Man and Rocket Racoon & Groot. Our featured comics are Dead Vengeance, Devil’s Line, To The Abandoned Sacred […]
Cinema Eclectica 82 – Things are going in a Grave Robbing Direction
Apologies for the delay! We’ve had technical difficulties and gremlins to contend with. On this extended edition we see the return of the B-sides with “Tickled”, “The Little Prince”, “Star Trek Beyond”, “Evolution”, “Childhood of a Leader” and “Everyone Wants Some” – titles that could have been our feature presentation […]
Psychomania (1973) Black Magic, Low Budgets and glorious British camp (Review)
Tartuffe (1925) Dynamic, daring and full of beautiful compositions, it’s definitely more than lesser Murnau (Review)
In Jean-Pierre Melville’s debut film The Silence of the Sea, Howard Vernon’s tragically naive Nazi lieutenant tries to curry favour with the French family he’s staying with by praising their culture. He says his Fatherland has but one emblematic literary genius, Goethe, but France is spoiled for choice with Zola, […]