Desert Island Films #89 – The Dirk Malcolm Alternative
Originally posted on Head In A Vice:
Dirk from The Dirk Malcolm Alternative has kindly submitted his Desert Island Films. Please read on for his choices and reasons, and be sure…
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Starburst Memories: Woody flow-chart
Due to a number of reasons, ‘Dirking about’ time has been hard to find over the past couple of weeks. There are number of posts in the pipeline, when I […]
Starburst Memories: Gratuitous Fantasy Females Sequel
In a shameless attempt to boost our hits, Dirk Malcolm’s World of Film is not proud to revive one of the regular features from Starburst magazine. People come here in […]
CHRIS: Hana-Bi (Fireworks) (Kitano, Japan, 1997)
One of the repeated motifs of this internationally celebrated film, is that of Tangram – a chinese shape puzzle that can be rearranged to form different pictures – this is […]
Starburst Memories: The Vizable Edge
During my brief tenure at the Edge Hill College film society, I started a magazine of ‘Film and Media’ to promote the society and to fill the void left by […]
CHRIS: Gohatto (Taboo/Forbidden) (Oshima, Japan, 1999)
When I started at college, I joined the Film Society and was very quickly on the committee, which was still trying to deal with the backlash from the year before […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Little White Lies – Apocalypse Now
This may seem an odd edition to the Starburst Memories slot, given that it was only published recently, the dust has only just managed to settle on Dirk’s archive edition, […]
CHRIS: Jubilee (Jarman, UK, 1977)
“You wanna know my story babe? It’s easy. This is the generation that grew up and forgot to lead their lives. They were so busy watching my endless media. Its […]
Dirk’s Five – Homecomings
Dirk is back. Holidays are over and the heady days of Summer are drawing to a close. The longer nights can only mean more films and the regular schedule for […]
DOM: Wings of Desire (Wenders, West Germany/ France, 1987)
I think in the 1970’s German cinema went through a bit of a renaissance with Fassbinder, Wenders and “The Tin Drum”, but I believe this is the pinnacle. With the […]
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