Morgiana – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 276

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Our last Director’s Lottery* sees us tackle one of Graham’s beloved Czechoslovak New Wave directors – Juraj Herz, the thrilling maniac behind The Cremator. We chose his 1972 Gothic fantasy Morgiana, which is less viciously political than his best-known film but equally mad, and equally replete with fish-eye lenses. In […]

Il Divo – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 249

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We at Eclectica were self-isolating before it was cool, so COVID-19 isn’t going to stop us. Instead we’ve got another entry in our Director’s Lottery series, which came out with Paolo Sorrentino and his twisty, paranoid biopic of former Italian PM Guilio Andreotti, 2008’s Il Divo. What do Graham and […]