All the leaves aren’t quite brown yet, but the sky is definitely grey so it’s the season for Aidan, Graham and Tim to revisit Wong Kar-Wai’s international breakthrough hit “Chungking Express”. Revitalising his career after the arduous shoot of “Ashes of Time”, it’s still one of the Hong Kong director’s […]
Cinema Eclectica
Cinema Eclectica 170 – Paul Rudd Roulette
Cinema Eclectica 169 – Jeff Goldblum’s Massive Tricycle
Cinema Eclectica 168 – Grumpy Old Dictators
Cinema Eclectica 167 – Sexy Guernica
After some technical problems the Eclectica gang manage to find the right lever switch to send 5,000 volts through their microphones while they maniacally scream “It’s alive!” as they discuss “Mary Shelley”. With Elle Fanning bringing the Frankenstein author to life and Haifaa al-Mansour supplying her “Abby Normal” brainpower in […]
Cinema Eclectica 166 – You Have the Right to Remain Embalmed?
Cinema Eclectica 165 – Killed By W.A.S.P.
For a Fuller podcast experience, join Ryan, Graham, and Aidan for Cinema Eclectica’s Samuel Fuller special, where the second half of the show is a deep dive into Indicator’s new box set devoted to the great San Franciscan’s work. Ryan immediately clicks (buddy-cop style), with “The Crimson Kimono”, Aidan takes […]
The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner (1962) one of the greatest endings to a film ever (Review)
Based on Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 first-person short story of the same name, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was an obvious choice for Woodfall Films following the success they had had with a previous adaptation of a Sillitoe novel; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. It tells the story of […]