Der Fan
It would be too easy to sum up Eckhart Schmidt’s film Der Fan (1982) as a horror movie about a teenaged girl’s obsession with a pop star. At every turn… Read more »
Stunt Squad
Valli (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) and his gang our muscling their way into a cut of the local businesses one bombing at a time. The extreme violence of Valli’s attacks which leave… Read more »
Poetry Of The Black Man
As the world continues to mourn the loss of Sidney Poitier it seems fitting to shine a light on one of his most overlooked projects, the album Sidney Poitier Reads… Read more »
1984
Michael Radford’s adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, has become something of a classic itself. 1984 (1984) is a masterclass in the power of production design which itself is… Read more »
Femina Ridens
Piero Schivazappa’s Femina Ridens (1969), or The Laughing Woman, posits that Modernism, as a series of aesthetic principles, is the last bulwark against the tide of progress. Schivazappa’s direction solicits… Read more »
Threesome
Before screenwriter and director Andrew Fleming unleashed his masterpiece The Craft (1996) on audiences, he made the much smaller and far more intimate Threesome (1994). One of the things that’s… Read more »
Radio On
In 1978 and 1979 a number of different Unions went on strike in Great Britain. The strikes were in opposition of the government’s conservative restrictions on pay raises. As a… Read more »
Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched
Kier-La Janisse’s documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) is 192 minute epic that lays behind Severin’s best home video release to date; the All… Read more »
Eyes Of Fire
Reverend Smythe (Dennis Lipscomb), driven from the Calvinist settlement of New Dalton on account of his adultery, leads a small band of his followers down the Allegheny River into Shawnee… Read more »
Mirror Of Venus
First published in 1966, Mirror Of Venus is a collection of erotic photographs from Wingate Paine’s first solo exhibition. To accompany the images are two sets of texts. These texts… Read more »
