She Said Boom
fifth column: a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.(dictionary definition) Dick Hebdige marks the beginning of “punk”… Read more »
Barry Lyndon
In John Russel Taylor’s book Directors & Directions: Cinema For The Seventies he profiles an eclectic number of filmmakers and their contributions to the medium. One of the director’s Taylor features in… Read more »
The Bellboy
I really like Jerry Lewis movies. A Friend of mine always made fun of me for it. He’d say I was the “only American who loved those films”. The first… Read more »
Samson & Delilah
In spite of being a TNT production, Samson & Delilah (1996) still bears a few of the hallmarks of Nicolas Roeg’s inimitable style. However budget constraints and shooting conditions seem… Read more »
Orson Welles’ Macbeth
“My purpose in making Macbeth was not to make a great film – and this is unusual, because I think that every film director, even when he is making nonsense,… Read more »
Gates Of Heaven
Taking a close look at society and the lives contained within it, one often finds that our reality, in all of its absurdity, reads more like fiction than fact. This… Read more »
The Lord Of The Rings
Peter Jackson’s much lauded adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings continues to resonate with audiences some fifteen years after the final film, The Return Of The King (2003), was… Read more »
Scenario Du Film Passion
In the following piece I make several references to Fabrice Ziolkowski’s article The Passion According To Jean-Luc, which appears on pages 48-49 of On Film issue #12. It may be helpful… Read more »
A Better Tomorrow
If one hasn’t seen many Heroic Bloodshed films from the eighties and nineties one probably has the impression that these films are low-brow entertainment, but there is more here than… Read more »
Hacksaw Ridge
I have seen a number of blockbusters this Autumn. Some were decent, some were terrible. But each was indicative of the state of American cinema today in its own way…. Read more »
