ANDY: Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, US, 1970)
The greatest decade in the history of mankind had ended, but as the hippie wigs went up for sale on the shelves of Woolworths, American cinema was entering the last […]
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ANDY: Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953)
When Kaneto Shindo, director of CHILDREN OF HIROSHIMA (1952) and ONIBABA (1964), died at the age of 100 last month, obituaries everywhere acknowledged the debt his films owed to Kenji […]
Dirk’s Five – British New Wave
Everyone knows it’s grim up North London, but I’m told when one gets past Watford it’s even worse. On the back A TASTE OF HONEY (1961), here is a Friday […]
ANDY: A Taste of Honey (Richardson, UK, 1961)
Post-1977, a phrase that entered the lexicon of music critics everywhere to describe the impact of punk rock after it burst onto an international stage was “scorched earth”. Anything that […]
ANDY: Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, US, 1938)
In the interests of full disclosure, BRINGING UP BABY is probably the film I’ve watched more times than any other. If the internet has taught us anything it’s that people […]
Starburst Memories: Zona
There’s been so much talk of Tarkovsky’s STALKER around here recently that you’d think someone liked the film. Geoff Dyer certainly does. His latest book ‘Zona’ revolves around Tarkovsky’s “The […]
Dirk Redux: This Must Be The Place
Last night I used my connections in London film circles (£1.40 off with my BFI membership card) to gain entrance to a preview of Paolo Sorrentino’s new film THIS MUST […]
Dirk’s Five – Being Boring
There is dissent in the ranks. Normally the contributors here at Dirk Malcolm’s World of Film think and act as one, a gestalt entity. Independent thought is anathema and likely […]
ANDY: The Consequences of Love (Sorrentino, Italy, 2004)
THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (Le Conseguenze Dell’Amore) is a film about a mystery. At first the mystery may seem to be “What on Earth is this film about?” as its […]
ANDY: A Matter of Life and Death (Powell & Pressburger, UK, 1946)
Between 1941 and 1957 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known when their powers combined as the Archers, delivered so many undisputed classics of British cinema that any attempted list of […]
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