ANDY: Scarecrow (Schatzberg, US, 1973)
SCARECROW is the textbook example of a film that was overshadowed even before it was released by the projects its cast were working on either side of it. Al Pacino […]
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ANDY: Alice (Švankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1988)
Inspiration behind hundreds of terrible amateur attempts at stop-motion on youtube, Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer painstakingly combines a mixture of animated clay and ordinary household objects with live action to […]
ANDY: Naked (Leigh, UK, 1993)
NAKED is unique amongst the films I have or will be picking for this list, in that I once spent an evening with its director, Mike Leigh. At the time […]
ANDY: Out of the Past (Tourneur, US, 1947)
In the interests of full disclosure, Robert Mitchum is my all-time favourite screen actor. No one else has ever been able to turn in such a run of ground-breaking performances […]
ANDY: Groundhog Day (Ramis, US, 1993)
Close-up of a radio alarm clock. In slow motion the giant numbers fall, like they’re trying to resist but are overwhelmed by the weight of time. Didn’t we do this […]
ANDY: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, West Germany, 1972)
Sometimes I like to imagine Werner Herzog works the way he does because nobody ever told him about special effects. If you want to make a film about a 300-ton […]
ANDY: Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, Italy, 1948)
BICYCLE THIEVES (Ladri Di Biciclette) is one of those films that will always loom large on certain types of ‘greatest film’ lists, whilst simultaneously not feature at all on others. […]
ANDY: The Conversation (Coppola, US, 1974)
The fourth amendment to the United States constitution guarantees “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”. As […]
ANDY: Withnail and I (Robinson, UK, 1987)
There isn’t a single line in WITHNAIL AND I that you could edit. The unfortunate consequence of writing such a perfect script is that the wankers will quote it back […]
ANDY: Chimes at Midnight (Welles, Spain/Switzerland, 1965)
Everyone knows that the only great film Orson Welles ever made was CITIZEN KANE (1941), right? Everyone knows that Welles blamed the studios for what happened to THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS […]
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