Four Frames: School for Unclaimed Girls (Robert Hartford-Davis, 1969)
The list of ‘great British erotic films’ is a very small list indeed. That’s not to say we don’t have…
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One Sheet: Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968)
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in…
Lost Classic: The Midnight Story (Joseph Pevney, 1957)
Joseph Pevney is a name you don’t hear often, although his output as a director was prolific. He made eighty…
Screengem: The tin of sweets in Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
Childhood sweets are happy memories. They’re treats from loving parents, for being good, for being loved. It’s wartime in Grave…
Screengem: Withnail’s Coat in Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
Cigarette, bottle of wine, coat: enter Withnail, Richard E. Grant’s raging antihero and elegantly wasted actor au-chômage. It’s winter in…
New Releases: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The best parents loosen the ties to allow for a little self discovery, but where’s the line? Overly strict parenting…
Widescreen: Cinema Pameer – Interview with Martin von Krogh
Martin von Krogh is an award winning photojournalist whose work for Newsweek took him to Kabul, the conflict-ridden capital of…
Four Frames: A Short Film about Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)
Kieslowski’s Decalogue seems to resort, at times, to self-consciously symbolic imagery: a bee clinging to a straw as a neighbouring…
Screengem: The Laughing Wallpaper in Scorsese’s The King of Comedy
Taxi Driver’s portrait of ’70s downtown New York, complete with neon signs and porno theatres flashing through the night, is…
