Following an acclaimed career in TV drama (much of which was made available in last year’s BFI box set release, Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC 1969-1989), director Alan Clarke achieved a box-office…
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Blu-Ray Review – Beat Girl (1959)
The Beatnik phenomenon is often considered exclusively American but in reality Britain had its own form of it. The UK beatniks were writers like Alexander Trocchi, Colin Wilson and to a lesser extent Harold Pinter sometimes they…
Film Review – I Am Belfast (2016)
This is an extraordinary film, I Am Belfast. It manages to be moving, rich with imagery, thoughtful and as lyrical as a poem flowing like a river all at the same time, if you get…
Blu-Ray Review – Underground (1995)
Emir Kusturica since the early ’80s has remained one of the most singular voices in World Cinema. Underground is a surrealist war epic that had Kusturica being proclaimed the Serbian heir of Fellini though the lens…
Blu-Ray Review – Valentino (1977)
Ken Russell was one of Britain’s few cinematic renegades but Valentino is a film he publicly said he rather forget. It’s based loosely on a biography on the silent film star Rudolph Valentino who is played…
Blu-Ray Review – Love is the Devil
Biopics are hard to pull off but often the best are ones that don’t get full cooperation from the person’s estate so the filmmakers have to be more inventive than the birth to death narrative…
DVD Review: John Cassavetes Shadows
★★★★☆ It is excellent news that the BFI have decided to restore John Cassavetes seminal 1959 classic, Shadows. The film which is largely improvised follows the relationships of a mixed-race family in 1950s New York…
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