Sweet Thing is the first film from Alexandre Rockwell to have any real UK distribution since his segment in Four Rooms. His two previous features, Pete Smalls Is Dead and 13 Moons, never got UK releases, although on a deep dive searching for free streamers in the UK you can find the most recent of the two, Pete Small Is Dead, in on … Continue reading Sweet Thing – Blu-Ray Review
Dementia 13 was the first proper movie from Francis Ford Coppola. He had shot and re-edited two soft-core films previously—Tonight for Sure and The Bellboy and the Playgirls, both collaborations with Jack Hill—that he probably wouldn’t want to mention, but Dementia 13 was made while he was a film student at UCLA. His next film, … Continue reading Dementia 13 – Blu-Ray Review
Prisoners Of The Ghostland was one of the most hotly anticipated movies at the Sundance Film Festival this year. It marks the English-language debut of maverick and extremely prolific Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono, director of Suicide Club and Love Exposure. The film continues the long and strange career of Nicolas Cage, who is on record as claiming … Continue reading Prisoners Of The Ghostland- Blu-Ray Review
Ingmar Bergman Volume 2 is the latest in BFI’s currently ongoing four-set series of the Swedish auteur’s work, which have filled a massive gap on the British Blu-Ray home video market. This set also marks the point when Ingmar Bergman started coming into his own as a filmmaker, even though there are some truly awful … Continue reading Ingmar Bergman Volume 2 – Blu-Ray Review
Jacques Becker's film, Falbalas reminded me quite a lot of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. It’s a film that Becker made during the German occupation of France, but it didn’t come out until after the Liberation. It’s not his best film (that’s probably his very last Le Trou, a stunner of a prison escape film). … Continue reading Falbalas – Blu-Ray Review
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