Posted in Directors, Hollywood, Lists, Stars, The Future of Film on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Hi, glad you could make it. Take your seats. The fight’s about to start. In the red corner, there’s Mark ‘Lethal’ Lawson. He wrote a piece for The Guardian recently, saying how future generations will regard ours as a golden age of movies, comparable to the 1940s and the 1970s. He cited things like No […]
Posted in British Film, Double-bills, Lists on Feb 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Sometime last century, my then-local fleapit decided to branch out into late-night screenings. This in itself was a novelty in a small town where the weekend’s entertainment usually involved Diamond White and Actual Bodily Harm. So imagine the feverish buzz that resulted when it was learned that these late-nighters would be double-bills, that is two […]
Posted in British Film, Directors on Feb 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I was recently tasked with reviewing a new box set which gathers up the thrillers Alfred Hitchcock made in the 1930s, and which also throws in a few of his silents for good measure. This wasn’t difficult, as I’m extremely fond of this period in the master’s career. He would make objectively ‘better’ films but […]