Does anyone want a podcast about famous directors’ Instagram feeds? While we workshop that, there’s a lot to get through this week, not least a review of Federico Fellini’s landmark film La Strada. Where does it end up in our Fellini power rankings? After a Question of the Week about […]
Curzon Artificial Eye
Stray Dog – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 255
In Fabric – horror-comedy in a stunning red dress (Review)
Cold War (2018) Feels like Hollywood pre-code, unapologetically entertaining (Review)
He’s a musician, or maybe a musicologist, lightly burdened by Marcello Mastroianni-style ennui, touring post-war Poland, barely introduced in an opening montage as one of two government-appointed scouts listening to a series of home-grown Polish folk music talent. Maybe he’s holding some auditions, maybe he’s learning their traditions. We see […]
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016) Intentionally Incohesive Portrait of a Simple Man seeking Nourishment (Review)
Heal the Living (2016) An admirable but soul-crushing medical drama (Review)
Graduation (2016) a cinematically damning indictment of Romanian society in three well-versed acts (Review)
Despite some questionable actions, it’s hard not to feel sorry for Adrian Titieni’s Dr Romeo Aldea in award-winning director Cristian Mungiu’s film Graduation (or Bacalaureat as it is known in its native Romania); weighed down by middle age and with only his good reputation to comfort him and measure his success by, […]
Lost In France (2016) Documenting the Glasgow Indie Rock Scene (Review)
Through the Wall (2017) Hasidic Judaism Rom-Com still falls into Rom-Com Traps (Review)
Keyframe 61 – Alternate World Long-Legged Mac Daddy
This week we find out what happens when you don’t ban certain plot devices from a short story competition, and a “shrine” to anime and manga is being rebuilt. Our featured anime are Durarara!!x2 Shou, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works part 2 and Anomalisa (from Curzon Artificial Eye). Tune in […]