Blog posts by year and monthMay 2016
Posts (9)
Spotlight On The Press
Spotlight is just out on DVD. How does it manage to do such a good job of portraying a the work of journalists and what are the other cinematic great examples?
Loach Cannes Do
A few years ago Ken Loach was rumoured to be retiring but instead he’s just won the Palme d’Or for his new film I, Daniel Blake...
Women In Film
Mustang is a great film out on current release and is one of the very few pictures directed by a woman to be Oscar nominated this year . Who really calls the shots in the movie business?
Quixote Rides Again
Terry Gilliam’s film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote seems to be back on again after nearly 20 years of trying...
Your Year Zero Films
I posted recently about the point at which films become old. Here is what you had to say.
Back Room Boy
Room is out on DVD and BluRay on Monday. I love the film which and its wonderfully understated score by Stephen Rennicks.
Cinema Year Zero
The French Connection is 45 years old this year - it’s just one of a whole raft of films that I think of as ‘recent’ but which are actually now pretty old. Am I the only one who feels this way?
