Can you believe this is our first Jim Jarmusch episode? The white-haired director’s habit of casting musicians means pretty much all of his films qualify for this show, with regular collaborators including Tom Waits, Iggy Pop and RZA. All of them turn up in this, his ensemble zombie comedy from […]
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Cinema Eclectica 214 – The Last Of The English Tawdries
This week Graham and Tim check out Jim Jarmusch as he pioneers un-deadpan comedy with The Dead Don’t Die. Are the jokes as dusty as Jarmusch’s strangely goreless zombies? Off the Shelf sees Graham covering Border – the Mubi release which combines the two poles of modern Scandinavian cinema (bleak […]
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) feels like a living watercolour painting (Review)
Keyframe 115 – Curing The Dubstep Flu
Cinema Eclectica 154 – All Dogs Gere to Heaven
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Wes Anderson at his profoundly sad, moving and redemptive best (Review)
Reputations are a slippery thing, and directors sometimes start their career with one that completely contradicts the one they get later. The French critics who would come to damn Spielberg as the McDonalds of cinema had previously swooned over the existential spareness of Duel. Likewise, after works like O Brother, […]