Dirking about … The best posts of 2013
We three Dirks of Bolton are, one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a scooter (blowing his hooter) have had an epiphany. Sometimes it’s a struggle to […]
Tag Archives: Derek Malcolm
Dirk’s Movie Confessions
Dirk is participating in My Film Reviews blogathon to reveal my Movie Confessions. Which classic movie don’t you like/can’t enjoy and why? One of the reasons that I created this […]
ANDY: An introduction to my list
“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like” When august film critic Derek Malcolm contacted me to ask if I would contribute to his world-renowned film […]
DOM: Psycho (Hitchcock, US, 1960)
“I saw a film today, oh boy!” I would have loved to have been able to talk about my favourite film “Vertigo”, but Derek Malcolm got their first and this […]
DOM: Duck Soup (McCarey,US,1933)
I was a little shocked in Derek Malcolm’s choice that he chose The Marx Brother’s “A Night At The Opera”, but he gave me a chance to choose their best! […]
DOM: The Thing (From Another World) (Nyby, US, 1951)
“An intellectual carrot, the mind boggles!”, indeed it does! Based on J W Campbell’s short story “Who Goes There?” in which a mysterious alien disguises itself in every person in […]
CHRIS: The Thing (Carpenter, US, 1982)
“…satiation rather than horror…” – Derek Malcolm “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding.” – Palmer If we are not going to have AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, then we will have […]
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 […]
DOM: Listen to Britain (Jennings, UK, 1941)
Humphrey Jennings was called “The only true poet of the English cinema” by Lindsay Anderson, something that could be thought of as true, but Jennings has fallen out of favour […]
DOM: A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, UK, 1971)
In a way I feel it quite a shock that it has taken me so long to get to one of the most revered of film directors, Stanley J. Kubrick. […]
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