Mystery Train was director Jim Jarmusch’s 4th film and his first since his low-budget debut, Permanent Vacation, to be shot in colour. His previous two were strikingly shot in black and white, which suggests that Jarmusch wished to visually capture Memphis in the best way that he could. Despite being […]
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves (1968/2005) red-hot takes (Review)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves is the new Blu-Ray release from Criterion UK. It contains genuine footage of the Roswell incident, cast-iron evidence of voter fraud, and natural health secrets that THEY don’t want you to know. None of the preceding sentence is true, but if I hadn’t come […]
Cinema Eclectica 214 – The Last Of The English Tawdries
This week Graham and Tim check out Jim Jarmusch as he pioneers un-deadpan comedy with The Dead Don’t Die. Are the jokes as dusty as Jarmusch’s strangely goreless zombies? Off the Shelf sees Graham covering Border – the Mubi release which combines the two poles of modern Scandinavian cinema (bleak […]