Every era has one or two filmmakers who are so fashionable and so beloved that they introduce a whole generation to classic cinema just through name-dropping films in interviews. For my generation, it was the Coen brothers (and Quentin Tarantino, but since we’re not reviewing a 1970s rape-revenge film we’ll […]
Billy Wilder
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Influential in Many Surprising Ways (Review)
One of the most curious Allied operations to occur during World War Two was arguably Operation Copperhead, masterminded by one Brigadier Dudley Clarke. A small military deception, Copperhead saw the Allies dupe the German high command whose intelligence expected General Bernard Montgomery to play a significant role in the 1944 […]
One, Two, Three (1961): Billy Wilder’s Satirical Greatest Hits
Cinema Eclectica 175 – Marvin Gaye’s Frankenstein
All the leaves aren’t quite brown yet, but the sky is definitely grey so it’s the season for Aidan, Graham and Tim to revisit Wong Kar-Wai’s international breakthrough hit “Chungking Express”. Revitalising his career after the arduous shoot of “Ashes of Time”, it’s still one of the Hong Kong director’s […]
Cinema Eclectica 145 – Tom Hiddleston’s Plasticine Nipples
The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder and the rebellion in Romance (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 87 – A Seaworthy Vessel of Scuzz
Between the madness of being a bit ill and accidentally suggesting necrophilia, it’s something of an eventful show. This week we look at Billy Wilder’s “Fedora”, William Klein’s art-house oddity “Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?”, Richard Wenk’s 1980s high-camp horror “Vamp”, and Whit Stillman’s divisive “Love & Friendship”. Our Feature […]