“The street is watching” is a weighty and ominous line that conveys paranoia and trepidation, as well as knowledge of one’s surroundings, and it’s a line that echoes throughout Carlito’s Way, a fine example of one of the oldest and most American of film genres – the crime movie. When […]
Brian De Palma
Blow Out (1981) Travolta & De Palma’s Masterpiece (Review)
Phantom of the Paradise – Pop Screen Episode 16
De Niro & De Palma: The Early Films (1968-70)(Review)
Cinema Eclectica 139 – Bright Eyes, Burning like Dracula
Raising Cain (1992) John Lithgow’s Sandbox and the unexpected Director’s Cut (Review)
In Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s disarmingly forthright documentary, De Palma, its subject talks about the highs and lows of his career. In that one man and his camera documentary, there is one sentence that perfectly encapsulates how modest a man Brian De Palma is. He along with other directors do […]
Cinema Eclectica 89 – Adam Curtis’ Hypnotoad
Cinema Eclectica 89 – Adam Curtis' Hypnotoad
Body Double (1984) Misogyny and the self satirising artist? (Review)
Indicator Series has launched this Monday with a wonderful statement of intent, elsewhere on the site you can read our review of John Carpenter’s Christine, a release supplemented with the most definitive roster of extras one could hope for. The same is true of their other debut release, Brian De […]