This isn’t quite Cinema Eclectica’s dance special, but it gets weirdly close – with Pablo Larrain’s psychosexual reggaeton epic Ema as Film of the Week, and a Question of the Week about your favourite cinematic dance scenes. The answers take in everyone from Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers to Greta […]
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Cinema Eclectica 99 – The Pinnacle of Mount Woody
We’ve never been accused of being political, but this week we had no choice in the matter. Join us as we talk movie presidents and Pablo Larrain’s American debut “Jackie”, followed by a big old chat about Woody Allen featuring “Zelig”, “Stardust Memories”, and a “Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy”. Tune […]
The Club (2015) offers its characters nowhere to hide, no sunlight to enjoy, no corners to cower in (Review)
Whatever he did for his fourth film, Pablo Larraín must have known he needed to make a sharp turn. His first three films form such a comprehensive trilogy on life under Pinochet’s dictatorship that anything more would have risked tilling over old ground. His debut, Tony Manero, was a portrait of […]