Apparently this is bullshit, but if Oliver Stone needs a scriptwriter with local knowledge… accept no substitutes.[…]
Two docs in shaky-cam. 1: Mondovino, in cinemas today, arguably the best of this year’s documentary explosion. Like The Corporation it’s an investigation of global capitalism, but rooted in a concrete analysis of one product: wine, openin[…]
Politics Can’t Kill The Situationist International. Not really DYS, but this needs attention. Having spent the ’70s making trad-left agit-prop plays, David Edgar now sees the ‘light’: ‘Thirty years later, the miners̵[…]
A heart-warming and implicitly anti-rockist letter to The Times from an Oxford legend: Sir, The outcry against David and Victoria Beckham as Joseph and Mary is risible. What character tests were imposed on the persons so portrayed in the churches and[…]
Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling? Not as much as rockism itself, and the upcoming NFT ‘Easy Riders, Raging Hormones I [Heart] the ’70s’ Fest provides plenty of that. The programme notes posit an[…]
A jogger collapses, dead. A child is born. Intertitle: ‘Ten years later’. These are the first three events in ‘Birth’ and already it has the Luis Bunuel feeling — in spades. This was only confirmed when the end credits l[…]
or Don’t Look Back in Anger Shot during the Prague Spring and released after the Russian invasion, Lindsay Anderson’s ‘If….’ would seem to have earned its parenthetical (1968). With its violent anti-authoritarianism, lon[…]
RUB QUIZ MORE LIKE. Comments on the boorish, unfunny compere at the movie quiz in my local minor sleb hangout would be better suited to Pumpkin Publog, so I won’t make them here. But the content of the quiz itself is indicative of wider trends […]
The revisionist logic of the ‘New Cold War’ is worked through in the ideological forging-house of Amazon.com customer reviews: ‘As you might expect, a 70 year old communist propoganda film is not gripping entertainment. The first &#[…]
Post idea 2: Old film mags had a local-paper quality lost among the glossies: a regular lament was the infelicities of NFT programming. So my two cents is: why seemingly every ruddy film ever made by George Cukor and a very incomplete selection of Li[…]