Which movie would you put in a space capsule for aliens to watch? That’s the question we’ve put to you this week – knowing that, for a lot of people, it would be our Film of the Week. A thematically appropriate one, too, since John Ford’s Stagecoach is more than […]
Western
Near Dark – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 240
A Fistful of Dynamite: You Say You Want a Revolution? (Review)
Once upon a time in Paris (on March 22nd, 1968 to be exact) a number of far-left groups comprising of students and artists gathered together to occupy the administration building of Paris Nanterre University to protest against class discrimination and political bureaucracy. The police were subsequently called and the protesters […]
High Noon: A Story That Still Happens Everywhere, Every Day (Review)
Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part III: Best of the Year (5 to 1)
A Ciambra (2017) Neo-Italian Social Neo-Realism fails to recapture the magic of the masters (Review)
A spectre is haunting cinema— the spectre of Italian neorealism. Spectral, because despite the critical and cultural ripples made by films like The Florida Project, American Honey, and Valeska Grisebach’s Western, these non-professional actors, semi-real situations and hitherto unexplored settings tend to be forgotten by awards season. The genre, which […]
