Season Finale Baby! This week, I am joined by Graham (POP SCREEN) and Aidan (LB) to talk about Ealing man turned award-winning educator, Alexander MacKendrick. A man whose teachings have been turned into one of the definitive filmmaking books, “on Filmmaking” it’s called, funnily enough. As for his films, we […]
Alexander Mackendrick
Cinema Eclectica 117 – Joe Swanberg’s Lens Cap
After a snap election, Cinema Eclectica agrees not to do any more strained political puns after the introduction. Aside from that there’s some exciting news about future shows tucked away inside Ryan’s preview of “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea”, and a typically varied Off the Shelf. Graham […]
The Ladykillers (1955) Impossibly influential dark comedy caper is still as fresh as a daisy (Review)
Few cinematic institutions rival Ealing Studios; the only similar shadows are cast by British Horror emblem Hammer and the Hong Kong Martial Arts stalwarts, the Shaw Brothers. Between 1930 and 1959, the West London studio bore cinematic fruit that not only stands up to this day, many titles could also […]