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DOM: Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker, UK, 1967)

16/09/2010by Dirk 1 Comment

This is Pennebaker’s groundbreaking documentary on Bob Dylan’s 1965 British tour, which started in Sheffield on 30th April and cumulated at the Royal Albert Hall for two nights 09-10th May […]

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DOM: Gaslight (Dickinson, UK, 1940)

15/08/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

If I could dedicate this list to one person, it would be Leslie Halliwell, first of all he was from Bolton and secondly he wrote about film with more passion […]

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DOM: Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, UK, 1962)

15/07/2010by Dirk 2 Comments

One cloudy Sunday afternoon at the beginning of April 1990, the prisoner’s of Strangeways, Manchester decided to riot and so the news was extended and so the TV premiere of […]

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DOM: Dracula (AKA Horror of Dracula) (Fisher, UK, 1958)

28/06/2010by Dirk Leave a comment

The ultimate horror film, full stop. There, I have said it. 82 minutes of pure brilliance! When I was growing up in the 1970’s, I was always fascinated by my […]

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CHRIS: Brazil (Gilliam, UK, 1985)

21/05/2010by Dirk 3 Comments

What is it that I find appealing about a day dreaming bureaucrat who is seeking escape from the hum-drum office life? I wonder… Jonathan Pryce is well cast as the […]

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DOM: The Devils (1971, UK, Russell)

13/05/2010by Dirk 3 Comments

Based on Aldous Huxley’s book “The Devils Of Loudon” it follows Oliver Reed’s Father Grandier as he is tried and executed for possessing the nuns of the village of Loudon […]

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