Even before his death in July 2018, Claude Lanzmann was always easier to imagine in retrospect. He remained a public figure into his nineties, and a valuable one at that: thoughtful, eloquent, combative when necessary. His work, though, was dominated by two time periods. The first was the period from […]
Graham Williamson
Opera (1987) Argento Is No Ordinary Horror Director And [This] No Ordinary Horror Film (Review)
Josie (2018): … To Be Bad You Have To Recognise That You’re Bad (Review)
As my colleague Rob Simpson keeps having to point out, a film doesn’t need likeable characters to be good. It doesn’t even need smart characters. There’s a whole subgenre of noir fiction from Jim Thompson through to the Coen brothers which takes knuckle-dragging characters doing repellent things and alchemises them into […]
Texas Adios (1966) A glimpse of the Spaghetti Westerns yet to come (Review)
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas (1986 & 1989)(Review)
The Tree of Life (2011) A film we’ll never stop talking about (Review)
Project A (1983) & Project A II (1987) Jackie Chan, the Cinephile (Review)
Gas Food Lodging (1992) a quintessential 2018 indie movie made in 1992 (Review)
Hitler’s Hollywood (2017) Modern History and it’s cinema’s darkest days (Review)
What do you think of when you think of Nazi-era German cinema? Leni Riefenstahl filling the screen with crowds cheering Hitler, or the explicitly anti-Semitic likes of Jud Süß and The Eternal Jew? Perhaps you think of Quentin Tarantino’s literal and figurative massacre of the industry in Inglourious Basterds, and […]