Laugier: Martyrs (2008)
Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is unique – there is nothing quite like it in horror cinema. Historically, it exists at the cusp between the New French Extremity of the 2000s [...]
October 2022
Lonergan: Margaret (2011)
Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan’s three-hour-plus magnum opus, may well be the greatest film made about 9/11, not least because it was shot in 2005, but only edited into shape [...]
Lima: 102 Dalmatians (2000)
In the late 90s and early 00s, Hollywood sequels were one of the places where bad taste and camp excess really shone. With the world-building out of the way, films like [...]
Park: Decision to Leave (2022)
Many major directors have a film in their recent body of work in which they come to terms with phones, and their impact upon the experience of cinema. Decision to Leave is [...]
Anderson: Lake Mungo (2008)
Lake Mungo is a genuinely underrated film – a masterpiece of Australian Gothic and a masterpiece of digital horror that predated Paranormal Activity by a year, while [...]
Yang: Taipei Story (1985)
Taipei Story is not the original name of Edward Yang’s second film, whose Mandarin title translates to Green Plums and a Bamboo Horse, in reference to a well-known Chinese [...]
Gravel: Full Time (2021)
Full Time, Eric Gravel’s second feature, was awarded both Best Director and Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. Both plaudits are well deserved, since the film [...]
Green: Halloween Ends (2022)
Rebooting the Halloween franchise as a three-film cycle comes with a paradox: John Carpenter only ever intended the Michael Myers narrative to last for two films. With [...]
Scott: True Romance (1993)
It would be hard to think of a more iconic or dynamic early 90s collaboration than Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott. Tarantino had just burst onto the scene with Reservoir [...]
Russell: Amsterdam (2022)
Amsterdam is essentially a return to the millennial eccentricity that David O. Russell cemented with I Heart Huckabees. That film was followed by the longest blank period in [...]