Where, But In America? asked an early working title for Stanley Kramer’s extravagant Ultra Panavision progenitor of the ‘epic comedy’ genre. Scotland is the sensible answer, the planned location of a wacky race that the transatlantic writing duo of William and Tania Rose, famous for Ealing comedies such as The […]
Reviews
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978) A Classic Example of the Critics Film (Review)
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016) Intentionally Incohesive Portrait of a Simple Man seeking Nourishment (Review)
Erik the Conqueror (1961) One of Cinema’s best visual artists turns to the Viking movie (Review)
In “Gli Imatori”, a visual essay featured in an uncharacteristically spartan selection of arrow video features, Michael Mackenzie comments on Italian cinema’s propensity to copy (Escape from New York becomes 2019: After the Fall of New York, for example) as this latest Mario Bava title released under the now transatlantic […]
Every Picture Tells a Story: The Art Films of James Scott (1967-84) (Review)
The Love of a Woman (1953) a modest, forgotten gem of French Cinema (Review)
‘En dix ans, douze millions de beaux bébés pour la France.’ With those words, Charles de Gaulle ushered in a new era of French ‘politique nataliste’ in 1945, a system of government incentives and social and religious pressures intended to address the country’s low birth rate. Women workers were seen […]