This week we get unnecessarily vengeful about a children’s Christmas film. Off the Shelf features Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth and Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool – both from Masters of Cinema. Meanwhile, Ryan delves into the underrated Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Graham takes on Pop Goes the Easel […]
Masters of Cinema
Inside Out – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 30
Tomorrowland – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 21
Paper Moon (1973) Pitch-Perfect Homage to the Golden Age of 1930’s Hollywood (Review)
Films that trade in the retro have become a commodity post-2010, with a countless barrage either slavishly replicating or parodying bygone ages – especially the 1980s. Such films have escaped the cult domain and penetrated the mainstream, truly the mark that something has had its day in the sun. It […]
The Salvation – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 16
Loomets Geneiswys We have all the pronunciations this week – including the good, the bad and the remarkably ugly. It’s your fault, you terrible movie-naming people. In our “Off the Shelf” section, we take a look at The Offence from Masters of Cinema, Some Beasts – the highly anticipated critical […]
Wooden Crosses (1932) Important, practical, anti-war film (Review)
The Last of the Unjust (2013): Shoah director still throws up genuine moral challenges (Review)
Claude Lanzmann’s complex, heavyweight and incredibly powerful new film The Last of the Unjust is a feature-length reworking of material gathered over the arduous twelve-year shoot for his defining work Shoah. It is an interview with Benjamin Murmelstein, a Viennese rabbi appointed by the Nazis as “Elder” of Theresienstadt, the […]