Dirk’s Five – It’s a jungle out there!
As the country is gripped by sub-zero temperatures, what better time than to put on APOCALYPSE NOW and feel a bit sweaty under the oppressive heat of Saigon; the depiction […]
Author Archives: Dirk
CHRIS: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Bahr, Hickenlooper, 1991, US)
To me, the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, and some… just people who normally wouldn’t make movies are going to […]
Starburst Memories: The Star Wars Visual Dictionary
There’s nothing that gets Dirk more excited than Star Wars ephemera. A recent bequest to Dirk’s ever-expanding library is Dorling Kindersley’s wonderful Visual Dictionary. After a clear-out of her garage, […]
DOM: L’Avventura (Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960)
L’Avventura (ITY/FRA1960, Michelangelo Antonioni) . When originally shown at the Cannes Film Festival it was booed by some critics, but after a second screening, it took the Grand Jury Prize […]
DOM: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (Schlondorff, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, France, 1979)
In Germany in the 1970’s, they sort of experienced a new dawn of excellence in cinema, not seen in the country since before the Nazi’s. Directors such as Werner Herzog, […]
DOM: Frankenstein (Whale,US, 1931)
“We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. It is one […]
Dirk’s Five – Mentors
PATCH ADAMS 1) Bruce Springsteen in HIGH FIDELITY (2000). The boss strums his way through some homely advice to the tortured sole of John Cusak, who is a personal friend […]
Starburst Memories: Star Wars Holiday Special
At the September (2011) gathering of Dirk’s Film Club we had a comedy double bill. There was HIGH FIDELITY – amusing rather than rib-tickling – followed by STAR WARS: HOLIDAY […]
CHRIS: High Fidelity (Frears, US, 2000)
All time top reasons why this list obsessed comedy features in Dirk Malcolm’s greatest films since Star Wars? 1) The book upon which it is based by journo-turned-author Nick Hornby […]
Starburst Memories: Films and Film-making Jubilee Edition
This post is a different from other Starburst Memories for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it doesn’t feature a genre-magazine, FILMS AND FILM-MAKING occupied that middle-brow region presently occupied by […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 