“Success is elusive. Something lost is difficult to find. Progress takes time.” That quote comes from the last film on Eureka Masters of Cinema’s new Blu-Ray collection of early Hou Hsaio-Hsien films, 1983’s The Boys From Fengkuei. After watching all three films in the set, it’s hard not to interpret […]
Month: April 2018
They Came To A City (1944) Dearden and JB Priestley meet for an unwieldy thought experiment (Review)
Cure (1997) a terrifying modern horror masterpiece about Evil’s absolute power to indoctrinate (Review)
Literary Loitering 83 – John Updike’s Pee Maze
4-Panel 135 – Banana-Flavoured Iron Fist
Cinema Eclectica 155 – The Hills Have Ears
This week’s Off the Shelf sees the films themselves teaching the hosts a thing or two. Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s paranormal horror “Ghost Stories” turns the sceptical Graham into a true believer, while Aidan finds Criterion’s reissue of “La Cage aux Folles” something of a drag. You could say […]
The Awful Truth (1937) Screwball comedy, Oscars and the Politics of Laughter (Review)
Le Corbeau (1943) All too relevant given the current state of global politics (Review)
The Old Dark House (1932) proof that James Whale was a master of intelligent, witty thrills and chills (Review)
La Chinoise (1967) More fun than the dry, doctrinaire Godard it is accused of being (Review)
There’s no greater feeling of kinship than learning someone shares your hot take, so let’s start this review of Arrow Academy’s Blu-Ray of La Chinoise by praising one of the extras – a great, informative, witty discussion of the film by Denitza Bantcheva. Listening to Bantcheva, I finally felt like […]