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 [...]
The Knick: Season 1 (2014)
The Knick is an extraordinary and ground-breaking series in many ways. First and foremost, it’s the first real example of the kind of serial auteurism that has functioned [...]
Show Me A Hero (2015)
One of the legacies of The Wire has been that every subsequent David Simon series is now destined to be scrutinised to determine how successfully it lives up to that [...]