I was intrigued to hear that Alfréd Radok’s Czech drama, Distant Journey, was one of the first films to depict the horrors of the Holocaust. I was left gobsmacked, though, to hear that the film was released in 1949, only a couple years after the Holocaust ended. For Radok to […]
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The Specialists (1969) Eccentric French Spaghetti Western Grime (Review)
The Family Way: Hayley & Hywel 4Eva (Review)
Kwaidan: The King of the J-Horror (Review)
The Man With The X-Ray Eyes: Hard Sci-fi in a Goofy Shell (Review)
John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Way outside the West (Review)
The Strange One: Homoeroticism, Hazing and the Hays Code (Review)
Rio Grande: John Ford’s Comfortable West (Review)
Rounding off any trilogy is no easy feat for any director, producer or star. Although John Ford’s inadvertent and seemingly accidental triumph through his Cavalry trilogy isn’t connected through the storylines, the characters and expected interactions of the genre are built up in equally vivid and cold ways in previous […]