Dirking About … nothing on.
I have to make a terrible admission. For the past couple of months I’ve been a bit ‘off’ cinema. I’ve hardly watched anything in the past month. I can’t quite […]
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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…
DOM: Quatermass & The Pit (Ward Baker, UK, 1967)
When Roy Ward Baker died last year, all the obituaries concentrated on “A Night To Remember” (quite rightly too), his definitive version of the Titanic disaster, vastly superior to James […]
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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