John Huston has swiftly become a fascination of mine. His directing style and visibility in some of cinema’s finest and best-remembered projects has elevated him to a status that kept his direction relevant for the forty years of his career and forty more after he’s passed away. His work on […]
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The Fate of Lee Khan (1973) When a Kung-Fu Movie isn’t a Kung Fu Movie (Review)
Das Foot Asylum – Cinema Eclectica 230
The Third Wife: an unsensational film that’s caused a big fuss (Review)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: “A Fugitive from Justice…Or from Injustice”?
Often cited as one of the most important Australian films ever made and a key text in the Aussie New Wave movement of the 1970s, Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a beautifully shot yet heart wrenching and savage account of institutionalised racism in colonial Australia at the turn […]