Dirk’s Five – Hustlers, Grifters, Shills and Marks
Illusion and cinema go together like Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. From the earliest moments in the history of cinema, film-makers have used the medium to perform trickery. This association […]
Author Archives: Dirk
CHRIS: House of Games (Mamet, US, 1987)
“It’s called the confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No, because I give you mine.” Mike David Mamet was already an established Broadway dramatist and Hollywood […]
Starburst Memories: Woody flow-chart
Due to a number of reasons, ‘Dirking about’ time has been hard to find over the past couple of weeks. There are number of posts in the pipeline, when I […]
CHRIS: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (Schlondorff, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, France, 1979)
Oskar Matzerath is the boy who refuses to grow older. A child of the petite bourgeois in Danzig during the rise of Nazism, he throws himself down the cellar steps, […]
DOM: The Wicker Man (Hardy, UK, 1973)
One of THE great cult movies, I first encountered this film in January 1992 when a slightly longer than the release version was shown on BBC-1, but more of this […]
Woodython Five (7): Show Business
“Show business is dog eat dog. Its more than dog eats dog. It’s dog doesn’t return the other dog’s phone calls.” Crimes and Misdemeanors “Write about what you know,” is […]
DOM: Don’t Look Now (Roeg, UK, 1973)
Met a dwarf that was no good Dressed like little Red Riding Hood Bad habit taking life Calling card a six inch knife Ran off really fast Mumbled something `bout […]
Starburst Memories: Don’t Look Now, it’s Mark Kermode!
I edited PROP magazine with Steven Blyth for ten issues from 1996 to 2003. It started life as a component of his Poetry MA with Manchester University, but we developed […]
Starburst Memories (redux): Interview with a Geek: Chris Hart
Originally posted on 2 Warps to Neptune:
Chris as a young lad, mentally preparing for the annual British Open Dungeon Crawl Championships. Chris today, rendered impressionistic by so many years of…
Woodython Five (6) – New York Stories
“I not only was totally in love with Manhattan from the earliest memory, I loved every single movie that was set in New York, every movie that began high above […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 