Czechoslovakia is a country whose films I am not familiar with one iota. Not one single watch from their vast, lavish works. No modern, contemporary…
We don’t often get a British film that we can all sink our teeth into here on Cinema Eclectica, so when one finally does appear…
In 2007 Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died on the same day, prompting a lot of critics to wonder who would take their place in…
Sometimes drastic measures must be taken in order to bring balance to the universe, which is why we’re making the effort to placate the spoiler-wary…
In his book Crackpot, John Waters devotes a chapter to his guilty pleasure movies – the joke being that the trash cinema most people would describe…
No matter how many times actors, writers and directors repeat that old saw about dying being easier than comedy, critics are still more likely to…
Released just six months before his death from cancer, Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice is commonly held to be an uncomfortably elegiac, melancholy note for the…
We all know how Robert Altman spent the 1970s, right? M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Long Goodbye, McCabe and Mrs Miller. Freewheeling satirical ensemble pieces, playing fast…