It’s back to 1987 for this week’s Criterion Collection release and a time when everyone began to kid themselves that they could speak Spanish for a summer thanks to the chart-topping hit from Los Lobos of the same name – La Bamba A rock and roll biopic, La Bamba tells […]
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The Essential Jacques Demy: a constant conveyor belt of delights (Review)
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas (1986 & 1989)(Review)
The Uninvited (1944) a Chiller… but not like we know it (Review)
The Uninvited is a curious supernatural “thriller”, set on the southwest coast of England. The film is Lewis Allen’s adaptation of a Dorothy Mcardle story (Uneasy Freehold), in which composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland), and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey), fall in love with an old, mouldering property whilst holidaying […]
The Tree of Life (2011) A film we’ll never stop talking about (Review)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) feels like a living watercolour painting (Review)
The Awful Truth (1937) Screwball comedy, Oscars and the Politics of Laughter (Review)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) So overambitious it’s amazing it doesn’t fall apart (Review)
Where, But In America? asked an early working title for Stanley Kramer’s extravagant Ultra Panavision progenitor of the ‘epic comedy’ genre. Scotland is the sensible answer, the planned location of a wacky race that the transatlantic writing duo of William and Tania Rose, famous for Ealing comedies such as The […]