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Australia: Backroads (Phillip Noyce, 1977)
Noyce collaborated on Backroads with Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, who, apart from his political actions such as the establishment of…
Brilliant Failure: Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)
It could be argued that the majority of Ralph Bakshi’s career encompasses the phrase ‘Brilliant Failure’, with his offbeat adult…
Lost Classic: Overlord (Stuart Cooper, 1975)
Stuart Cooper’s dream-like interweaving of stunning archival footage with the fictional narrative of the training of a new recruit, Tom…
Lost Classics: Man Push Cart (Rahim Bahrani, 2005)
Few images more powerfully evoke the stark reality of 21st Century city survival than the Sisyphean struggle of Pakistani immigrant…
Brazil: 5 x Favela, Now by Ourselves (Amaral, Barcelos, Bezerra, Carneiro, Felha, Novais, Vidigal, 2010)
The favela is still seen as a place of deprivation and negativity…
Screengem: The Remington Portable Typewriter in The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
Billy Wilder’s Oscar Winning picture, The Lost Weekend (1945) starring Ray Milland as a washed-up New York writer, is one…
Fatal Attraction Part 2: The French Connection
In the concluding part of a two-part piece on cinema’s wicked, wanton women, Emma Simmonds shifts the focus to four…
Fan Phenomena: Heroes with issues: Fan identification with Batman
I realized that he was a ‘superhero’…he is just a man walking among gods, but he can take every single one of them out and they all know it.
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Lost Classic: Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
If they ever considered stopping by our planet, aliens should prepare themselves for a rough welcome if our exhaustive list…