Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator ( 1967 )This film is on YT, but it wouldn't show here. But this might very well be my new fave from this daring director from Yugoslavia Dusan Makavejev, yeah there used to be a country called Yugoslavia!! His later film in 1974 for a long time was my... See More »
Star Spangled to Death - Ken Jacobs (2004)This was completed during Bush Jr's term and I felt the same things as the filmmakers here did at the time, you can only imagine how a film like this would be made nowadays, it would be insane, and this goes pretty far in it's righteous indignation... See More » (4)
The Gospel According to St Matthew (1964) - PasoliniI love the music in this, opening credits one is by the same group that the movie If ... uses, Missa Luba, for me it always sounded like a hippy version of Catholicism. 1st heard about it long before bowing the knee to arthouse cinema it was when I... See More » (2)
Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismäki, 1986)This was my first Kaurismaki film, and in many ways it remains my favorite, it's a textbook example of how to do deadpan humor, and the few moments where a blues song (BB King) bursts on, I just love it even more!! If the usual romcom is too touchy... See More » (1)
Nadja (1994) looks to be a neat lil Vampire flick with a Lynch connectionMight give this a proper watch when it gets dark, as it must be dark for some of us now, I share it before it's too late!! There's 2 other things the name Nadja evokes for me, a perfectly delightful Eric Rohmer short film called Nadja in Paris,... See More » (2)
Here's some 1930s cinema eye candy -- Evergreen Preserved very nicely, from the reviews i've glanced at on it, it was Britain trying to do the musical just as good as Hollywood. 1934 being the year this was released. (1)
John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the InfluenceIn my opinion, this is the best American narrative film, the 2 leads Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk provide a dynamic acting masterclass, one of my favorite memories of showing films to my folks was of this, it landed well, and at least for that day... See More » (1)
