The history of cinema is fascinating when journeying back to its origins, illustrating how much has changed over the course of time. Take science fiction and horror as the prime examples, both are worlds away from their respective zeitgeists – almost as if comparing night with day. Comedy is different […]
Masters of Cinema
The Cold Day in the Park (1969) The Lonely, Strange years of Altman, one for the hardcore fans (Review)
Robert Altman is one of Cinema’s most interesting voices, with his dense overlapping dialogue, compelling female leads, ensemble casts etc; of course, many would group these trademarks with his 70s productions. Through Nashville, M*A*S*H and McCabe and Mrs Miller, Altman was pivotal in defining the tone and outlook of Hollywood’s last golden age. Before and […]
Edvard Munch (1974) Peter Watkins fight to be free of genres, formats and cliches (Review)
Journey to the Shore (2015) trades in the haunted house for a ghost story (Review)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Other Works by Dziga Vertov (Review)
Three Days of the Condor (1975) Conspiracy Thriller that ages like a Fine Wine (Review)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951) Gleefully old-fashioned Korean War pulp poetry (Review)
Before he was a director, Samuel Fuller fought in World War II and worked as a tabloid journalist. The former experience shaped his politics, the latter shaped his sensibility. If Fuller’s films sometimes seem simplistic, their simplicity is at least born of sincerity. He knows what he believes, and he […]
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) One of the Ultimate Anti-Gangster Movies (Review)
Cinema has long been entrenched in mythologising the career criminal. Far from reality, these archetypes have evolved into marketable heroes. Perhaps the grim reality of these lives has become more prominent in the last decade or so, but back in the 1970s, such sombre realism was a scarce commodity. Enter […]