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ANDY: Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953)

21/06/2012by Andy 1 Comment

When Kaneto Shindo, director of CHILDREN OF HIROSHIMA (1952) and ONIBABA (1964), died at the age of 100 last month, obituaries everywhere acknowledged the debt his films owed to Kenji […]

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CHRIS: Battle Royale (Fukasaku, Japan, 2000)

11/04/2012by Dirk 3 Comments

There’s something about children killing children that remains one of the few remaining universal taboos. There is a sense of collective moral panic whenever there is a new case, whether […]

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CHRIS: Ran (Kurosawa, Japan, 1985)

27/05/2010by Dirk 2 Comments

In the week that British political landscape was rewritten, it is fitting that The Dirk Malcolm Film Club should feature this epic study of the destructive effects of power as […]

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The Dirk Malcolm Alternative is a site of film lists and memories. Written by Dirk Malcolm (Chris), Roof-Dirk (Andy) and Dom-Dirk (Dominic).

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