‘North by Northwest’: The first Bond movie
❉ How Hitchcock accidentally created the template for the modern action movie.
MOVIES
Mysticism in Film: ‘The Wicker Man’ (1973)
❉ We go inside The Wicker Man – one of the most iconic British films ever made, and an apex of the folk horror genre.
‘The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears’ by Lesley Brill reviewed
❉ Laura Mayne reviews an accessible, nuanced study of Stephen Frears’ films, from anti-establishment to establishment.
‘A Man For All Seasons’ coming to Blu-ray in 2017
❉ Hsitorical epic on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in a special Dual-format edition.
Peccadillo Pictures’ ‘Theo & Hugo’ reviewed
❉ Nick Campbell praises a strikingly modern nocturnal romance. But does he believe in love at first sight?
Mysticism in Film: ‘The Inner Scar’ (‘La Cicatrice Intérieure,’ 1972) Part 3
❉ We conclude our odyssey of oddities through Philippe Garrel’s allegorical mindfuck of sand, fire and ice…
‘The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse’ returns to DVD!
❉ The gentlemen from Royston Vasey’s 2005 movie returns to shiny silver disc!
‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (1972) revisited
❉ Writer David Llewellyn looks back on George Roy Hill’s darkly humorous adapation of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece.
A forbidden love: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita’
❉ “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” The story of how Stanley Kubrick brought Nabokov’s controversial novel to the big screen.
‘Two Women’ and ‘A Special Day’ reviewed
❉ CultFilms have released restored versions of two award-winning Sophia Loren movies on DVD and Blu-ray.