Brilliant Failure: Rollerball (Norman Jewison, 1975)
Norman Jewison’s Rollerball opens with the rituals of any sports match. The stadium is prepared, team executives shake hands, and…
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Lost Classic: You Said A Mouthful (Lloyd Bacon, 1932)
“I really couldn’t respect a man unless he were a great swimmer,” says Alice Brandon (Ginger Rogers) to Joe Holt…
Brilliant Failure: Orchestra Rehearsal (Federico Fellini, 1978)
Federico Fellini’s films often present a caricaturist view of society by magnifying our faults, a trait which is particularly distinct…
Lost Classic: Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)
He’s the greatest jazz guitarist in the world except for a “gypsy in France”, declares Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), the…
New Releases: The Neon Demon
To give you an impression of how disappointing and utterly miscalculated Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon really is, let…
Lost Classic: Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, 1959)
The moment the title card is smashed to pieces and the famous samba and bossa nova sounds burst through, ushering in a…
Lost Classic: Ulysses’ Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos, 1995)
As with the main character in Homer’s Odyssey, from whom Ulysses’ Gaze (1997) gets its name, Theo Angelopoulos’ sadly forgotten…
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…
New Releases: Three Days in Auschwitz
From Philippe Mora, the director behind Swastika, Snide and Prejudice and German Sons, comes this no-frills albeit personal documentary about…
