Often cited as one of the most important Australian films ever made and a key text in the Aussie New Wave movement of the 1970s, Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a beautifully shot yet heart wrenching and savage account of institutionalised racism in colonial Australia at the turn […]
Masters of Cinema
Coming Home: New Hollywood’s Other Vietnam War Movie (Review)
John Woo: Last Hurrah for Chivalry & Hand of Death (Review)
One, Two, Three (1961): Billy Wilder’s Satirical Greatest Hits
Shoah The Four Sisters (2018) Chamber Pieces From A Historical Nightmare (Review)
Even before his death in July 2018, Claude Lanzmann was always easier to imagine in retrospect. He remained a public figure into his nineties, and a valuable one at that: thoughtful, eloquent, combative when necessary. His work, though, was dominated by two time periods. The first was the period from […]
Salvador (1986) Fear & Loathing in Central America (Review)
Between 1980 and 1992, El Salvador was ravaged by a civil war between left-wing guerrilla groups and a right-wing military administration supported by the US government of the newly elected president, Ronald Reagan. Fearful that left-wing prominence would ensure the spread of Communism into North America, Reaganite foreign policy sanctioned […]
Police Story 1 & 2 (1985) Simply put, the Best Action Movie Ever Made (Review)
King of Hearts (1966) Endearingly Silly Anti-War film made in the mould of Ealing (Review)
Early Hou Hsiao-hsien: Three Films 1980-1983 (Review)
“Success is elusive. Something lost is difficult to find. Progress takes time.” That quote comes from the last film on Eureka Masters of Cinema’s new Blu-Ray collection of early Hou Hsaio-Hsien films, 1983’s The Boys From Fengkuei. After watching all three films in the set, it’s hard not to interpret […]