Haigh: 45 Years (2015)
Over the last few years, it feels as if dramas about older people have taken a different turn. Whereas it once felt that films about the aged were made for the young, or at [...]
November 2015
Malick: Knight of Cups (2015)
My head is still spinning from having just watched Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups. Already, I feel as if it is going to be a very precious film for me, for a whole host [...]
Hill: Southern Comfort (1981)
One of Walter Hill’s gifts as a director was his ability to tap into the complex dynamics of large groups of men. In fact, that’s what his definition of B-cinema came [...]
Craven: Deadly Blessing (1981)
For the media-saturated 80s, there was something fascinating about the spectacle of technophobic communities. Although Peter Weir may have captured the spirit of Old Weird [...]
Rafelson: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
If you had to sum up the achievement of The Postman Always Rings Twice in a single sentence, you might say that it is an adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, rather than [...]
Cronenberg: Scanners (1981)
One of the most perfectly realised of Cronenberg’s first wave of horror films, Scanners spawned two sequels, two spin-offs and has been in development as a television [...]
Moorhouse: The Dressmaker (2015)
If there’s one thing that defines contemporary Australian cinema, it’s an anxiety about national mythologies. Of course, those mythologies are present within any national [...]
Kieślowski: Krótki Dzień Pracy (Short Working Day) (1981)
For all the lush cinematicity of the Three Colours trilogy, there are few auteurs as indebted to television as Krzysztof Kieślowski. In fact, taken as a whole, his career [...]
Giorgio Moroder: Deja Vu (2015)
2015 has felt like a bit of a summative moment in 10s electronica, insofar as two of the key points of reference for contemporary artists – Giorgio Moroder and John [...]