Having one of the greatest film directors of all time engage with a titillating period from one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived is quite a remarkable premise. Such a meeting of great minds should bring about moving and influential art, musing on the highs and lows of […]
Martin Scorsese
Scorsese Shorts (1963-74) supremely confident first steps of a master (Review)
The Man With All The Southern Drawls – Cinema Eclectica 233
Cinema Eclectica 203 – What Fresh Hull Is This!?
Cinema Eclectica 184 – Examining Neil Young’s Nostrils
De Niro & De Palma: The Early Films (1968-70)(Review)
A Ciambra (2017) Neo-Italian Social Neo-Realism fails to recapture the magic of the masters (Review)
A spectre is haunting cinema— the spectre of Italian neorealism. Spectral, because despite the critical and cultural ripples made by films like The Florida Project, American Honey, and Valeska Grisebach’s Western, these non-professional actors, semi-real situations and hitherto unexplored settings tend to be forgotten by awards season. The genre, which […]
The Grifters (1990) Punk-ish Neo-Noir that kick-started one of the best eras of crime cinema (Review)
101 films co-produced a new making-of documentary for Stephen Frears’ The Grifters. In which, a producer states that Martin Scorsese believed Jim Thompson’s novel of the same name was among the best crime novels that hadn’t been adapted and so sought to amend that fact. With the legendary Taxi Driver […]
The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) impenetrably profound and dazzlingly superficial (Review)
Maybe you find that challenging, or intimidating, or mind-numbing, or somewhere between all three. If so, I’m not exactly sweetening the pot if I tell you that the film is a series of oblique, poetic tableaux vivants that symbolically illustrate the inner and outer life of the 18th century Armenian […]