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Monthly Archives: August 2012
More in-flight entertainment
Flying to England a few weeks ago for my nephew’s wedding, my experience of airline entertainment was even less satisfying than on my trip to Beijing last year. As before, the wide selection of movie choices was undeniably eclectic – … Continue reading
DVD Review: The Sword Identity (2011)
Sometime during the Ming Dynasty, two wandering soldiers arrive in the southern city of Guancheng. Armed with unusually long swords, they fight their way past the four martial arts schools which reign in the city. One of the pair is … Continue reading
Project Update: my part’s done …
I recorded the voice over for my documentary last Friday and spent the next few days making final detail changes in the edit. Yesterday, I turned the project over to the techies for on-line picture corrections and sound fix-ups and … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick 6: Odd Man Out – Barry Lyndon (1975)
My project of revisiting all of Stanley Kubrick’s movies in chronological order has, once again, been stalled for some time, although the delay in looking at Barry Lyndon again has nothing to do with the kind of reluctance I felt … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Adaptation, Directors, Historical Epic, Review, Stanley Kubrick
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Whatever Happened to Jim McBride?
Jim McBride was one of the most interesting and accomplished filmmakers to emerge in New York City in the ’60s, debuting with the remarkably assured and inventive David Holzman’s Diary in 1967. One of the earliest, and finest, examples of … Continue reading
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Tagged Directors, Documentary, Experimental Film, Science Fiction
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Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)
I was surprised to read over the weekend of the death of Kurt Maetzig. He was 101. Maetzig began his career in film in the ’30s with work on film technologies and animation. After the rise of the Nazis his … Continue reading
Posted in Obituary
Tagged Censorship, Directors, German film, Nazism, Obituary, rev, Science Fiction
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Book Review: They Came From Within by Caelum Vatnsdal
This is a review I wrote a few years back for Prairie Fire. A couple of reasons for republishing it here: 1) I don’t have a lot of time to write at the moment as I’m pushing to finish my … Continue reading
Flipside: The Black Panther (1977)
Released simultaneously with the Andy Milligan double-bill Nightbirds and The Body Beneath, the BFI Flipside edition of Ian Merrick’s The Black Panther (1977) resurrects an essentially lost British film which suffered a quick death because it took as subject something … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Crime, Directors, Exploitation, Flipside, Review
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