A movie about the Holocaust…but it’s a musical. You’ve got to admit, it takes some cojones to make that movie. Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés obviously believes he has those cojones. The filmmaker resposinble for the challenge of 2010’s claustrophobic, single-setting thriller Buried, steps up now to make Love Gets a […]
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Linie 1 (1988): All Aboard for a German New Wave Musical (Review)
Your attention, please. The Blu-ray now arriving on this platform is the Studio Canal Cult Classics release of Linie 1, Reinhard Hauff’s 1988 big-screen adaptation of Germany’s second-most successful musical after Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. Linie 1 tells the story of Sunnie (Inka Victoria Goetschel), a young woman who, having learnt […]
Queen Latifah & Chicago – Pop Screen 57
Pop Screen’s Oscar month continues with one of the 21st century’s biggest collectors of little bald gold men – Rob Marshall’s Chicago. Among its twelve nominations and six wins was a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 1990s hip-hop stalwart Queen Latifah, who gets a solo number crammed with innuendo, but […]
Sparks & Annette – Pop Screen Episode 45
Pop Screen is going all topical this week, eschewing our usual cult classics and reviewing a film released this year – so be warned, there are spoilers! It’s Annette, an extraordinary, divisive musical by extraordinary, divisive director Leos Carax, with a full original score by extraord… you get the picture, […]
Phantom of the Paradise – Pop Screen Episode 16
It Couldn’t Happen Here (Pet Shop Boys) – Pop Screen Episode 12
Pop Screen continues its dive into the strangest products of the 1980s trend towards long-form music videos with a lost gem of British pop-surrealism – Jack Bond’s It Couldn’t Happen Here, starring the Pet Shop Boys. Arguably the first stumble in the relentless upwards trajectory PSB were enjoying, it’s been […]
Shadowman – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 265
Put on your best old lady disguise and alert your ninja secretaries! Our director’s lottery came out with Georges Franju recently, which means this week Tim and Graham are watching his deliriously silly pulp oddity Nuits Rouges, aka Shadowman. Is this final film from the Eyes Without a Face director […]