Having one of the greatest film directors of all time engage with a titillating period from one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived is quite a remarkable premise. Such a meeting of great minds should bring about moving and influential art, musing on the highs and lows of […]
Reviews
A Rainy Day in New York (2019): and a grim day for Woody Allen fans (Review)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries (1943/45) Campy 1940s Murder Melodrama’s (Review)
Podcasting just does not get the credit it deserves, it removed the barriers to provide a platform for the everyman to broadcast around the globe. Let’s just ignore the fact the industry has been diminished by overexposure and broadcasting giants like the BBC getting involved making it very difficult for […]
The Tin Drum (1979) He Bangs the Drum (Review)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Authoritarian Italian Gonzo Satire with a musical score from the Heavens (Review)
The Don is Dead (1973) Donsploitation! (Review)
TV. It’s all the same isn’t it? Switch on the gogglebox at any point and you’re basically confronted with the same show in various guises. Singing contests, dancing contests, afternoon quizzes. They’re all the same. It’s like there’s only three original shows out there and everything else that fills up […]
Liberté (2019) If you go down to the woods today… (Review)
The New World (three cuts, 2005-8): choose your own adventure (Review)
Terrence Malick is often caricatured as the Fotherington-Tomas of cinema, whose tendency to wander around saying hullo birds hullo trees hullo skies can appear ridiculous in modern-day films like Lawless [5]. If you want to see Malick’s style and thematic concerns in a world where they make absolute, perfect sense, […]
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 […]
Mouchette (1967) The kind of serious art cinema that just isn’t made anymore (Review)
It can be daunting watching a film with a Mouchette-sized reputation. Robert Bresson’s second adaptation of a novel by Georges Bernanos (after 1951’s Diary of a Country Priest) is one of the most acclaimed works from one of France’s most heavyweight directors; it’s been cited as a favourite by everyone […]