CHRIS: Jubilee (Jarman, UK, 1977)
“You wanna know my story babe? It’s easy. This is the generation that grew up and forgot to lead their lives. They were so busy watching my endless media. Its […]
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Dirk’s Five – Homecomings
Dirk is back. Holidays are over and the heady days of Summer are drawing to a close. The longer nights can only mean more films and the regular schedule for […]
DOM: Visions Of Light (Glassman, US, Japan, 1992)
My favourite documentary of all, bar none. This is the story of the often overlooked part of cinematographers or DP (Director of photography) on film from 1915 to the 1990s. […]
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Starburst Memories: Horror Classics – The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Its the Summer Blockbuster season at the cinema and Dirk has been taking a break from The World of Film over the past couple of weeks as I have been […]
CHRIS: Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room (Gibney, US, 2005)
In the Titanic, the captain went down with the ship. And Enron looks to me like the captain first gave himself and his friends a bonus, then lowered himself and […]
Starburst Memories: The Projection Room – Hitch Intros
Previously, Dirk got dewy eyed about The Projection Room, Bolton School Film Society, which was the original source of this website back in 1999, when anything seemed possible, as long […]
DOM: Wings of Desire (Wenders, West Germany/ France, 1987)
I think in the 1970’s German cinema went through a bit of a renaissance with Fassbinder, Wenders and “The Tin Drum”, but I believe this is the pinnacle. With the […]
Dirk’s Five – Hitchcock Cameos
I wanted to mark the Hitchcock week with a fitting alternative list and I have been through a number of iterations that seemed well-worn and a little boring to be […]
Starburst Memories: The Projection Room – The Hitchcock Season (1999)
Before Dirk Malcolm’s World of Film there was The Projection Room, Bolton School’s Film Society. There had been film societies at the school in the past, but this incarnation was […]
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