Dirk’s Five – Fincher’s Titles
It is hard to be an auteur in modern Hollywood. Ever since Michael Cimono’s HEAVEN’S GATE (1980) destroyed United Artists, studios have been reluctant to allow the sole creative control […]
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Dirk’s Five – Weekender
As the wannabe mancs FLOWERED UP fade away, its is time for Dirk to get fresh for the weekend. Dom Dirk and Roof Dirk have been holding a splinter-group screening […]
Dirk’s Five – Rockumentary
To mark the end of Dirk on Tap, it is time to Rock! It has been sometime since we have had a contribution from Dom Dirk. This entry has come […]
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 […]
Dirk’s Five – The ‘Beat’ Goes On
Observant readers, and I know that there is at least one, will have noticed that my latest selections for the Dirk Malcolm list of films since STAR WARS, have come […]
Dirk’s Five – Future Games
Dirk had very little interest in real sport when I was growing up. I couldn’t see the appeal of grown men kicking a bag of wind from one end of […]
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 […]
Dirk’s Five – Forbidden Cinema
In a hidden corner of The National Archaeological Museum in Naples is the Gabinetto Segreto, the cabinet of secrets, where the more saucy artifacts recovered from Pompeii are stored. Visits […]
Dirk’s Five – Best Picture Oscar of the Star Wars Era
This is a rare Friday Five that has been brought to you from Dom Dirk in recognition of this week’s Academy Awards celebrations over in that there America. It is […]
Dirk’s Five – Stop Press
Rupert Murdoch is flying over to Britain to rescue the foundations of his empire that are crumbling under the weight of accusations of corruption and shady practice, his staff are […]
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