Four Frames: John Wayne (1907 to 1979)
Mark Cousins, Northern Ireland’s acclaimed documentary filmmaker, said one of the things that first helped him realise there was more…
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Screengem: Maureen’s Mobile Phone in Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
Nothing can distract from the audience’s cinema experience more than a mobile phone. But in his exquisitely enigmatic, always intelligent…
Four Frames: Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Music, like dreams, can linger in your head in bits and pieces. A snatch of a driving riff from here,…
Four Frames: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
Proverbs 3:31: “Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.” To die for a righteous cause is…
New Releases: Manchester by the Sea
The always watchable Casey Affleck has already picked up a Golden Globe, with an Oscar likely to follow, for his…
Screengem: Frank’s Cut-and-Paste Collage in Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)
Premier US film-maker Michael Mann paints pictures on an epic scale and delivers major set-pieces without losing sight of the…
Four Frames: The Longest Yard (1974)
There’s something very 1960s and ‘70s about split screen. Brian De Palma loves it, but it’s been criminally underused of…
Screengem: The Suspended Water Drop in Blood Simple
“Drip, drip, drip, drip … I shouldn’t laugh but I know I’m a failure in your eyes …” So sing…
Screengems: George Smiley’s spectacles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
When Daniel Craig strode out of the surf wearing those blue swimming trunks and announced himself to the world as…
