Starburst Memories: Blitz – Review of the Eighties
You may have missed the news, but last month Saint Margaret Hilda Thatcher passed away and it would be remiss of us to allow this event to go un-noticed. She […]
Tag Archives: Cannes Film Festival
DOM: Queen Christina (Mamoulian, US, 1933)
“I have been memorising this room, in the future, in my memory; I shall live a great deal in this room” Christina (Greta Garbo) after falling in love with the […]
DOM: L’Avventura (Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960)
L’Avventura (ITY/FRA1960, Michelangelo Antonioni) . When originally shown at the Cannes Film Festival it was booed by some critics, but after a second screening, it took the Grand Jury Prize […]
DOM: Breaking the Waves (Von Trier, Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, 1996)
When I first started watching films in the late 80s and early 90s, as I have said before Halliwell’s Film Guide led me through the maze of films from the […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 