“Luce” is our academically-gifted film of the week, and true to form we’ve all been doing our homework. For Graham that means, er, watching the Film of the Week – but don’t assume Mick and Tim have been sat on their hands. A frankly gargantuan Off the Shelf sees Mick […]
Fixed Bayonets
Cinema Eclectica 55 – Wrong Kind Of Calendar Girls
Fixed Bayonets! (1951) Gleefully old-fashioned Korean War pulp poetry (Review)
Before he was a director, Samuel Fuller fought in World War II and worked as a tabloid journalist. The former experience shaped his politics, the latter shaped his sensibility. If Fuller’s films sometimes seem simplistic, their simplicity is at least born of sincerity. He knows what he believes, and he […]