Dirk’s Five – The Cinema of Adam and Steve
Last week, Dirk watched the incredible A ROYAL AFFAIR (Arcel, Denmark, 2012) which tells the story of how the Queen of mentally-troubled Christian VII of Denmark fell for the royal […]
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Dirk’s Five – Brush up yer Hamlet!
Following Roof-Dirk’s CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT piece, it seemed reasonable and fitting to do a Shakespeare themed Friday 5. Unfortunately, the whole endeavor proved far too daunting for the Dirk collective. […]
Dirk’s Five – Annie Hall
I have used this line many times, and I am going to use it again: Woody Allen hasn’t made a better film than Annie Hall, because no one has made […]
Dirk’s Five – The Friday Five With No Name
“The Man with No Name” is generally understood to refer to Clint Eastwood’s character in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy, and Leone would use the trick for a fourth time for […]
Dirk’s Five – Road Movies
The title of MULHOLLAND DRIVE is a wonderful paradox. It seems to promise something very specific about a place, yet at the same time it belongs in a strange, disjointed […]
Dirk’s Five – Hong Kong
Though it’s had its golden and not-so-golden periods, Hong Kong is and always has been a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world, perhaps because of its dramatic skyline and harbour […]
Friday Five: The Rise of the Machines
I get slightly nervous when the toaster looks at me in a strange way, so I was pleased when Asimov came up with his rules for robots. I think that […]
Dirk’s Five – Karloff the Uncanny
Calling all horror fans (and thanks to Dom for alerting me to this one): after his heavily US-centric series last year, last night Mark Gatiss returned to the history of […]
Dirk’s Five – Goodfellas Goodbits
If UNFORGIVEN was a 1990s revision of the Western genre, then GOODFELLAs did the same for the gangster genre which was still in the thrall THE GODFATHER and ONCE UPON […]
Dirk’s Five – Ernest Borgnine
In a prolific week of contributions from Dom-Dirk, this is an obituary Friday Five in honour of the oldest living recipetant of the Best Actor Oscar, until he died last month. […]
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