Blier is a master of what I think of as cinema of the absurd. This film is Blier being his usual outrageous self, with a story that sticks two fingers up to...
On the whole I would tend to agree with this assessment. There are some funny moments though, and it's a pleasant enough film. But as to all the critics who...
Amongst other things, the voiceover showed up the teenager's chatter for what it was - shallow. It emphasised the wider world and social context they lived in...
"Dead Man", a Jim Jarmusch film. A young man from Cleveland is offered a job as an accountant. To get it, he must sell everything and move west to a town...
The story of a post virus-hit London, deserted apart from the crazy infected people out to kill anything that moves, and a handful of the non-infected trying...
So about quarter way through this Canadian indie flick, our heroine 'Jo' meets Czech emigree 'Luka' and says: "So you're named after the song right" "No"...
First released in 1999 (and according to the director 'James Benning' only shown at festivals) this is the first, in what has now become a trilogy of Static...
Short of course for Los Angeles, this is the second in the 'James Benning' trilogy dealing with present day California. As before the format is thirty five...
Hi Gary Thanks for the spelling correction, which means I should be able to find Koyaanisqatsi on IMDB in future. I must admit I never knew there was a sequel...
Why do you keep putting the director Benning's name in inverted commas? Is this a pseudonym? Peter...
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Final film of the 'James Benning' trilogy (see reviews EL VALLEY CENTRO and LOS) this takes its theme as the Californian wilderness. Like before the film...
My oh my, I didn't realise what Luvvy occasions these galas actually were. Naturally I just assumed I would turn up ten minutes beforehand and walk in, well...
Gary you have cracked it, they are exactly the two movies I was talking about. It wasn't that the names rang a bell, because someone else said the same two to...
So what do people who work in offices do all day ? Well obviously anything but work, if this small scale Spanish movie is representative. Here we have a...
I would imagine most of you know the big, baggy, baseball capped 'Michael Moore' from previous films ROGER AND ME, THE BIG ONE, and his television series TV...
What do people see in this film? It's billed as some extreme horror, from master director Argento. I found it laughable. Not only does it have a ludicrous...
The film has been labelled a thriller, but I don't think it sits comfortably in this genre. It may have some thriller elements, but I find it is chiefly...
After the reviews I've seen, I treated this film with some caution. Everyone seems to credit it with some value, but always grudgingly, with the qualification...
Imho, this movies could be interesting stop for some blue collar craftsman, but from Linklater one have to expect something more significant. If 'Dazed and...
When I was a kid there was usually two occasions when my dad would take charge of the TV and insist we all watched as a family. One would be when 'Muhammad...
Set in current day Sri Lanka, this is the tale of two obnoxious oiks who go around hassling women, and taking part in the occasional assasination of local...
This excellent documentary was originally shown in three parts on UK TV, but is also available on video. What comes across, load and clear, is the sheer comic...
... From: "Mike O'Brien" <mob61uk@...> ... Yes. I saw it in 1989 at the Everyman, Hampstead - it was the short film accompanying the release of Michael...
... Keaton ... seen ... short film ... Harry" (a b/w ... twenty years ... slipped back ... Observer gave ... playing ... or ... see for ... Thanks for this...
As I ended up being seated three rows from the front, directly in front of the microphone, my first thought was: 'please let it be Sandra Hebron who introduces...
Oi now look, if I go to see a film about lesbians, I expect them to look like the ones you get in porn movies; whereas in this piece of old Argie bargy, they...
Much as I enjoy a Bogart movie, "In a Lonely Place" is so much more! This is Nicolas Ray before "Rebel Without a Cause" and it is possible to see that he was...
Hi Robert, you are right this is a little different than your average Bogart movie. In fact it deals with an almost universal theme of otherwise normal men,...
