‘Space Oddity’ at 50: Notes on a rocket launch
❉ Martin Ruddock traces the genesis of Space Oddity, released 50 years ago today.
STANLEY KUBRICK
‘A Clockwork Orange’ revisited
❉ Back in cinemas UK-wide and part of BFI’s Kubrick season, how does the cult classic viddy 48 years on?
Interview: Damian K. Lahey
❉ Indie filmmaker Damian K. Lahey discusses his latest feature, which sees the return of the elusive Cristina Marsillach.
‘The Tree of Life’ (2011) revisited
❉ Let’s just get it right out there in the open: ‘The Tree of Life’ is easily one of the best movies ever made, certainly one of the most ambitious, and most definitely like nothing else out there.
‘Ciao! Manhattan’ on Blu-Ray
❉ Emerging onto Blu Ray for the very first time David Weisman and John Palmer’s Ciao! Manhattan is an odd, fragmentary, fitfully impressive patchwork quilt of a movie.
‘Rollerball (Constellations)’ reviewed
❉ Andrew Nette’s excellent monograph of Norman Jewison’s film is “one of the best examples of critical writing I’ve ever had the privilege of enjoying”.
‘Filmworker’: Working for Stanley Kubrick – in cinemas and on demand this Friday
❉ The remarkable, untold story of Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man is told in Filmworker, set to arrive in UK cinemas on 18 May 2018.
Cult Q & A: Richard Littler
❉ We’re asking, they’re answering. This week, the ‘Mayor’ of Scarfolk. For more information, please re-read.
Cult Q & A: Jenn Vix
❉ We’re asking, they’re answering. This week: Electronic rock artist Jenn Vix on her cult fave raves and her life and career so far.
After-Image: ‘The Shining’ (1980)
❉ After-Image looks at single images and the emotional and narrative weight they carry. This week: Space, the final frontier of fear.