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When Horror Came to Shochiku: from absurd to apocalypse …
Dr Stein (Mike Daneen): Love demands courage. Lisa (Peggy Neal): Yes, that’s the lesson Guilala taught me. Finding myself off work for a day with some nasty kind of flu bug, by a strange coincidence the mailman knocked at my … Continue reading
Year End 2012
A few days ago I spent the evening with four friends at our annual get-together to discuss what we had seen during the past year. Back when I was first invited to join the group years ago, there would often … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Comedy, Criterion, Fantasy, Home Video, Ken Russell
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The Director as Sociopath …
Quentin Tarantino has formidable filmmaking skills, rooted in his deep knowledge of movies famously acquired during his years as a video store clerk. His ability to create images, to build fluid visual progressions and elaborate displays of action, is complemented … Continue reading
Steamy Screen: The Melodramas of Gainsborough Pictures
One of the things I like about Criterion’s Eclipse series is the lack of snobbery in their choices. Yes, there are serious selections like the early Ozu films and Naruse’s silent works, Louis Malle’s documentaries, Jean-Pierre Gorin’s trilogy of essay … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, British Film, Criterion, Directors, Eclipse, Melodrama, Review
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DVD Review: Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend (1967)
Jean-Luc Godard wasn’t the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to start making movies, but his debut feature, A bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960), was the one which most clearly announced the arrival of the nouvelle vague. Where Francois … Continue reading
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Tagged Directors, Film History, French Film, Jean-Luc Godard, Review
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Project Update: Deleted Scenes
Although my documentary on Winnipeg movie theatres was originally conceived as a one-hour show, I ended up interviewing almost thirty people who gave me more great material than I could possibly fit into that format. As a result, the project … Continue reading
Disk of the Week: My Son John (1952) – Bad craziness in Hollywood
In the past couple of years Olive Films has released an eclectic variety of movies on DVD and Blu-ray, from noir to comedies, exploitation to obscure indie dramas – recent releases include Bresson’s The Devil, Probably alongside Aldrich’s Twilight’s Last … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, American film, Directors, Film History, Propaganda, Review
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Too big to read …
Like most people who grew up with them, books mean more to me than simply the words they contain. I bought a Kindle last year, and I have dozens of books on it, but mostly it sits untouched on a … Continue reading
Project Update: End of the Journey …
If it’s possible to feel exhilarated and anti-climactic at the same time, that’s how I feel this evening. It’s been just over a year since I shot Going: Remembering Winnipeg Movie Theatres, my documentary about the experience of going to … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick 8A: Male Anxiety and War
Full Metal Jacket (1986)
It was seven years after The Shining before Stanley Kubrick released his next film. Even given that Full Metal Jacket was two years in the making, that still leaves a long gap, perhaps indicating the difficulty he had in both … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Black comedy, Directors, Review, Stanley Kubrick, War Films
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