Philippe De Broca’s 1966 cult comedy, King of Hearts, is a colourful, charming, and silly little film that fits in line with war-time farces like Richard Attenborough’s Oh, What a Lovely War! In the underlying message of King of Hearts, De Broca is warning us that a closely-knit society is […]
Richard Attenborough
Dunkirk (1958) A poignant and near peerless World War II Movie (Review)
As a child obsessed with war, I well remember watching Dunkirk, Leslie (father of Barry) Norman’s 1958 film that depicted the events of May-June 1940, when the besieged soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force were stranded on the coast of France, and the combined efforts of the Royal Navy and […]
Joe Orton: Loot (1970) & Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 86 – Mecha Hitler Vs Cyber Churchill
As we travel the country we learn that the big news has secretly been following us! Conspiracy! Off The Shelf features Robert Aldrich’s “The Flight of the Phoenix”, Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” and the accidental creation of the oddest of double bill’s – Miklós Jancsó’s “Electra, My Love” and […]