Between Social Media and Marketing agencies, Japanuary is one of these traditions that happen every year, in which people portmanteau months to programme month long sessions into a particular movement – or, in this case, national cinema – into their cinematic diet. Giallo January is another common theme that people […]
Meiko Kaji
Hiroshima Death Match – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 275
Cinema Eclectica 137 – Tinky-Winky, LaLa, Dipsy & Edgar Allan Po
An uncharacteristic happiness and contentment falls on the show this week as Aidan, Graham and Rob discuss “Paddington 2”. Before that though, there are all the regular features – including Off the Shelf where Graham tackles Second Run’s release of Otakar Vávra’s historical nightmare “Witchhammer”, Aidan flees the nudging piano […]
Cinema Eclectica 79 – Crude Doodles on the Virtual Whiteboard
Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (1972)(Review)
More often than not exploitation cinema has laid in the bed it has made, keeping away from art, influence or acclaim. Exploitation is generally an isolated home for those who want to craft transgressive, liberated cinema – qualities that usually lead forwards bad taste. There are always exceptions, films which […]
Blind Woman’s Curse (1970): Teruo Ishii’s Weird Jigsaw of Japanese Genre Cinema (Review)
Japanese cinema is known for its eccentrics, whether its Seijun Suzuki, Takashi Miike, Sion Sono, or the many people keeping the splatterpunk movement alive in the still-thriving V-Cinema scene that gave birth to Miike career some twenty-odd years ago. Sitting at the top of that tree, however, is Terou Ishii. […]