If I had to choose one film from Second Run’s new double-disc Blu-Ray of Kevin Jerome Everson’s work to sum up his appeal to the uninitiated, it would probably be the 2015 short Grand Finale. That’s not to say it’s the best thing on offer, merely that it offers the […]
Year: 2020
Dawn of the Dead (1978) A guiding light of the zombie genre (Review)
Wes Anderson’s Tommy Knockers – Literary Loitering 127
The Wicker Man & The Final Episode of Cinema Eclectica (277)
Sweet Charity (1969): a musical for its time and ours (Review)
Put yourself in the mind of a moviegoer in 1969. At the time, it seemed like Hollywood was dying, struggling to compete with new, disruptive home-entertainment innovations. Even if they didn’t exist, though, the industry would be in trouble. Studios were ruinously focused on spectacle-driven tentpole films that were often […]
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984): You Can Kill the Man, But You Cannot Kill the Spirit (Review)
Released on Criterion Blu-ray this week is the Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, filmmaker Roger Epstein’s 1984 documentary about a true, political trailblazer, Harvey Milk. For many people, and certainly those of us on this side of the pond, Harvey Milk only really came to our attention thanks to […]
Morgiana – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 276
Our last Director’s Lottery* sees us tackle one of Graham’s beloved Czechoslovak New Wave directors – Juraj Herz, the thrilling maniac behind The Cremator. We chose his 1972 Gothic fantasy Morgiana, which is less viciously political than his best-known film but equally mad, and equally replete with fish-eye lenses. In […]