What Makes A Movie ‘Cult’?
❉ How do you define what makes a film truly ‘cult’? Nick Clement scratches the surface.
ROBERT ALTMAN
Moviedrome Redux: ‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’ (1971)
❉ “A work like McCabe and Mrs. Miller feels nearly impossible to contemplate being made today”.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘The Counselor’ (2013)
❉ Nick Clement presents his assessments of cinematic gems and cult oddities.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘Rachel Getting Married’ (2008)
❉ We pay tribute to Jonathan Demme.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘Buffalo Bill and the Indians’ (1976)
❉ This week: Robert Altman’s cynical, ultra-revisionist Western oddity.
‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (1972) revisited
❉ Writer David Llewellyn looks back on George Roy Hill’s darkly humorous adapation of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen: Archive interview – ‘Cohen’s New Skin’ (1975)
❉ A vintage Melody Maker interview, as Cohen emerged from a “washed up, confused, directionless time”.
Moviedrome Redux: ‘The Long Goodbye’ (1973)
❉ We revive the spirit of BBC2’s ‘Moviedrome’. This week: Robert Altman drags Raymond Chandler into the 1970s with ‘The Long Goodbye’.