Category Archives: Film
Film
‘Please don’t hurt each other, and have a fun with The Room‘
‘Please don’t hurt each other, and have a fun with The Room‘, says Tommy Wiseau, the writer, director and star of cult film The Room. If you haven’t heard of this cinema phenomenon yet, Wiseau’s film tells of a love triangle between a man, his fiancée and … Read more
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Film Review: Micmacs
Micmacs, the latest film from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a chaotic revenge caper against two evil arms dealers and the world of pain and death they represent. Imbued with the same enchanting sense of joyful whimsy that characterises Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement and the beguiling … Read more
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Inglourious Basterds: Violently inspired
Guest post by Michelle Calligaro “When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.” Joyce Carol Oates One man being hounded at the moment because of the violence in his art is Quentin … Read more
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The Fetishisation of God-Awfulness?: Ana Kokkinos and Blessed
Was anyone lucky enough to see the preview screening of Ana Kokkinos’s new film, Blessed, at the Cinema Nova on Sunday? I use ‘lucky enough’ broadly – I was certainly excited to watch the new film, her follow-up to The Book of Revelation, a confronting and thoroughly … Read more
