CHRIS: El Lobo (The Wolf) (Coutois, Spain, 2004)
“You can use all of your bullets except for this one. This one… is for Lobo.” November’s selection for the Dirk Malcolm’s Film Club was this gripping political thriller based […]
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CHRIS: Unforgiven (Eastwood, US, 1992)
“Deserve doesn’t come into it.” The best westerns are myths that tell a story about the time that they were written. The certainties that were present in the genre during […]
CHRIS: Scanners (Cronenberg, Canada, 1981)
SCANNERS was written and directed by Cronenberg and concerns a group of people who have intense telepathic and telekinetic powers who are caught in the middle of an industrial espionage […]
CHRIS: Short Cuts (Altman,US, 1993)
I am presently reading BEGINNERS (2009) by Raymond Carver. It is a reissue of his collection of short stories WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE (1981) which […]
CHRIS: Land and Freedom (Loach, Spain, UK, 1995)
“Revolutions are contagious.” Every time I watch this film, something stirs deep within me, an anger, but also a sense of pride, mixed with an unsettling frustration that is hard […]
CHRIS: Ghost World (Zwigoff, US, 2001)
This film brings together two genres that dominated cinema in the 2000s: the comic book adaptation and the off-beat-indy ‘family in crisis’ movie. Daniel Clowes’ excellent graphic novel, upon which […]
CHRIS: Capturing The Friedmans (Jarecki, US, 2002)
“Well, there’s some things I don’t want to talk about.” David Friedman A measure of a good film is how long it stays with you once the credits roll. This […]
CHRIS: Star Wars (Lucas, US, 1977)
“Promise me that you’ll never watch it again.” Alec Guinness (to a young fan) I had one of those kodak moments this week. I watched STAR WARS for the first […]
CHRIS: Three Colours: Red (Kieslowski, France, Switzerland, Poland, 1994)
Between 1992 and the end of the decade, I was watching about 3 -4 films a week at the cinema. I was a multi-plex whore, giddy at the prospect of […]
CHRIS: Blade Runner (Scott, US, 1982)
“I’ve seen things, you people wouldn’t believe.” Could the final scene of BLADE RUNNER be the greatest ever show down in cinema history? Forget the rest of the film for […]
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