Existentialism is often considered a crisis. When an individual thinks about their life and it’s meaning, impossible questions are posed. It is a common recurrence for those, like me, who have no idea what they are doing with themselves, their lives or their emotions. I Was at Home, But… the award-winning film […]
Second Run
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea(1977) A fantastic, vicious attack on the modern age of serious science fiction (Review)
Opening with a blend of orchestral beauty and vague pangs of Kool & The Gang, Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, from director Jindřich Polák, shows off its frivolous, light-hearted antics immediately. Pairing this high quality, era-defining funk with reversed and repetitive footage of soulless vermin Adolf Hitler, the […]
Liberté (2019) If you go down to the woods today… (Review)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) A beautiful swan song for a fictional picture house (Review)
How You Live Your Story: Selected Works by Kevin Jerome Everson (2005-2020)(Review)
Bill and Ted Face the Music – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 273
Koko-di Koko-Da – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 270
Wind up the music box and make sure you’re camping on a reputable campsite, Cinema Eclectica is reviewing Johannes Nyholm’s time-loop horror Koko-Di Koko-Da this week. A festival favourite that’s proved more divisive among – is it insulting to say normal people? Probably – normal people, what do Graham and […]
Czechmate – In Search of Jiri Menzel (2018) a love letter to Czech New Wave (Review)
Distant Journey (1949) a nihilistic vision of Nazi persecution (Review)
Curling: grips in ways a standard Hollywood thriller can’t manage (Review)
So do Second Run have some kind of insider knowledge, or…? Their first all-new release of 2020 (after a welcome Blu-Ray upgrade for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders) is Denis Côté’s Curling, a spare, paranoid film about self-isolation, home-schooling and precarious minimum-wage jobs. A rare chance for British audiences […]