Czechoslovakia is a country whose films I am not familiar with one iota. Not one single watch from their vast, lavish works. No modern, contemporary pieces to plunge into to get a feel for the genre, nor an ounce of knowledge about its New Wave efforts or its ability to […]
Second Run
A Case for a Rookie Hangman: as thoroughly bananas as the title suggests (Review)
Everybody in Our Family: Atmospheric, touching and defiantly small-scale (Review)
Previously, the only film by the Romanian director Radu Jude to receive a general release in the UK is Aferim!, an eccentric, stylized take on Western genre tropes that slowly reveals itself to be a commentary on a historical atrocity little-known outside Eastern Europe. Now, Second Run have released his […]
Ikarie XB-1 (1963): The best Space & Soap Opera you’ve never seen (Review)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) … Long Lost Figments Of A Beautiful, Experimental Documentary (Review)
I find it hard to review Dawson City: Frozen Time without writing about the background context behind Bill Morrison’s visually euphoric documentary. In 1978, construction workers unearthed a long lost silent film collection from a subarctic swimming pool in a Yukon mining village, not far from the titular Dawson City, […]
Invention for Destruction (1958) One of the finest pop-up books in cinema history (Review)
Daisies (1966) A High-Punk, High-Art, High-Feminist one of a Kind (Review)
Mark Isaacs: Five Films, One Filmmaker (2001-2017)(Review)
Second Run dropped a bombshell of a box set dedicated to the films of Marc Isaacs, a British documentary filmmaker known for creating closed-off, intimate films with a cast of many memorable and sometimes eccentric personalities. It doesn’t matter if his contributors are small-time BNP supporters, nobody street sweepers, or […]