CHRIS: Clerks (Smith, US, 1994)
“Buncha savages in this town.” There was a brief time in the early 1990s when a new era was emerging in America thanks to a several of high profile film-makers […]
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Starburst Memories: Woody Allen: A Documentary
This keenly awaited documentary offers to tell you “everything you wanted to know about Woody, but were afraid to ask” is now available on blu-ray and DVD after a […]
See the #fireworks I created by blogging on #WordPressDotCom. My 2012 annual report.
See the #fireworks I created by blogging on #WordPressDotCom. My 2012 annual report..
DOM: Annie Hall (Allen, US, 1977)
Alvy: ‘It’s all mental masturbation.’ Annie: ‘Oh well, now we’re getting to a subject you know something about!’ Alvy, ‘Hey, don’t knock masturbation, its sex with someone I love.’ When […]
CHRIS: Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) (Jodorowsky, Mexico/Italy, 1989)
Denis Hopper, navigating through the narrative mess of THE LAST MOVIE (1971), managed put together something that resembled a kind of order. He then asked his friend Alenjandro Jodorowsky to […]
DOM: Night Of The Demon AKA Curse Of The Demon (Tourneur,UK,1957)
As the film begins we see Professor Henry Harrington (Maurice Denham) approaching Dr Julian Karswell (Niall MacGuinnis) of Lufford Hall, telling him that he will call off an investigation […]
Dirk’s Five – Road Movies
The title of MULHOLLAND DRIVE is a wonderful paradox. It seems to promise something very specific about a place, yet at the same time it belongs in a strange, disjointed […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Loving the ALIEN?
Thanks to red wine and ebay, a fatal combination, I have been steadily rebuilding my collection of Starburst Magazines from the late 70s and early 80s. It has been striking […]
DOM: Mulholland Drive (Lynch, US, 2001)
When Derek Malcolm chose his accompanying list in The Guardian, his two most recent films were Zhang Yimou’s “Raise The Red Lantern” (which would easily made my list, but I […]
Friday Five: The Rise of the Machines
I get slightly nervous when the toaster looks at me in a strange way, so I was pleased when Asimov came up with his rules for robots. I think that […]
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