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Monthly Archives: March 2011
DVD of the week: Shopping (1994)
In my rather long film-going life, I have often been out of sync with generally held opinions. I didn’t much like the Star Wars movies when they transformed popular culture, I found myself laughing at Titanic while surrounded in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Actors, Blu-Ray, British Film, Directors, DVD, Paul W .S. Anderson, Science Fiction
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The short career of Michael Reeves
British director Michael Reeves was only 25 when he died of a drug overdose in 1969. This fact has placed quite a burden on the work which he left behind – three low-budget features made in three years. For a … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Boris Karloff, British Film, Directors, DVD, Horror, Vincent Price
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DVD of the week: Duffer/The Moon Over the Alley
One of the real pleasures of the BFI’s Flipside series of DVDs and Blu-Rays is the sheer eclecticism of the choices being made available. The series’ mandate is to present fringe works, movies outside the mainstream. So far, we have … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, DVD, Experimental Film, Independent Film, Musicals
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Vampire Circus footnote
By coincidence, having recently finally caught up with Robert Young’s Vampire Circus, I’ve just come across a short film he wrote and directed six years later for the British government’s Central Office of Information. Twenty Times More Likely (1978) is … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, Documentary, DVD, John Mackenzie, Robert Young, Safety Films
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DVD of the week: West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu)
West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu) would be a remarkable film under any circumstances. But the fact that it was the first project of a young filmmaker, Wang Bing, essentially working alone with a digital video camera, shooting over … Continue reading
Ealing Studios
I recently got to see the final film produced by Ealing Studios, The Siege of Pinchgut (1959), a tense hostage drama made far from the cozy English countryside and villages the studio is often associated with. Directed and co-written by … Continue reading
