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Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard

(2 stars)11 Sep 2009

(12) 96min (Optimum DVD retail) On paper, Mel Damski’s 1983 comedy has everything going for it. With a cast that includes four of the Monty Python crew, as well as Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook, Peter Boyle and a host of other comedy…

Dynamic: 01 - The Best of DavidLynch.com

Dynamic: 01 - The Best of DavidLynch.com

(3 stars)11 Sep 2009

(15) 116 min (Scanbox DVD retail) Watching these sketches and skits that were first shown on David Lynch’s subscription-based website, we might think he is the Francis Bacon of film. In his features Lynch is the master of the tension between…

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

(4 stars)23 Aug 2009

(15) 104min (Sony DVD retail) Very welcome reissue of Peter Medak’s 1972 film adaptation of Peter Nichols’ hit West End play is a reminder that bad taste and suburban schadenfreude did not begin with Family Guy. Alan Bates and Janet Suzman are Bri…

God Man Dog

God Man Dog

(3 stars)23 Aug 2009

(15) 119min (Terracotta Media DVD retail) Now that the multi-strand story is so prominent, we tend to forget that the fine Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang was influential in developing its form with his mid-1980s film Terroriser. Compatriot Singing…

The Second Wind

(3 stars)23 Aug 2009

(18) 149min (Optimum DVD retail) A remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1966 film Le deuxième soufflé, veteran journeyman Alain Corneau (Série noire, Tous les matins du monde) remakes this black and white classic with a colour scheme out of Amélie, and…

Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2

(1 star)23 Aug 2009

(15) 92min (Momentum DVD rental/retail) Sneaking out on DVD, having failed to secure a cinematic release Steve Coogan and director Andrew The Craft Fleming’s arch and unfunny Hamlet 2 is a laboured addition to the ‘deluded loser’ genre. Coogan plays…

Admiral

Admiral

(3 stars)23 Aug 2009

(15) 124 min (Metrodome DVD rental/retail) Admiral and family man Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky) falls deeply in love with the beautiful young Anna (Elizabeta Boyarskaya) while fighting for Russia during World War I. She’s married, he’s married and…

No 3

No 3

(3 stars)16 Aug 2009

THRILLER (15) 108min (Third Window DVD retail) In one scene in this Korean gangster movie we’re introduced to a character called Ashtray, aptly named for the way he will open up someone’s head with this clearly hazardous object. Whether it is the…

The Sorrow and The Pity

The Sorrow and The Pity

(4 stars)16 Aug 2009

(E) 249min (Arrow DVD retail) Sometimes it takes a foreigner to uncover the secret and lies at the heart of any community. Frankfurt born filmmaker Marcel Orphuls did exactly that to the people of Clermont-Ferrand in France in this his 1969…

Herostratus

Herostratus

(4 stars)16 Aug 2009

(15) 142min (BFI Blu-ray & DVD retail) Don Levy’s criminally overlooked 1967 media satire predates Sidney Lumet’s thematically comparable Network by ten years. When subversive young poet Max (Michael Gothard) hires an advertising company to turn…

First Word: Supergran

First Word: Supergran

12 Aug 2009

First record you ever bought I have never bought a record. Last time you were chatted up The chance would be a fine thing! First film that really moved you I have not a clue. Last lie you told I’m too goody-goody. First movie you…

Bargain DVDs

Bargain DVDs

12 Aug 2009

Inglorious Bastards, Pirates of the Caribbean, Rocky, Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Dollars trilogy, Powell and Pressburger anthology, Watchmen, Let The Right One In, O Lucky Man!, Repo Man, Harold and Maude, Donnie Darko

Viva

Viva

(4 stars)12 Aug 2009

LA based artist and filmmaker Anne Biller’s deliciously diverting sexploitation flick spoof revisits the cautionary sex and drugs melodramas of the late 60s and early 1970s best exemplified by Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1968 Suburban Roulette, Radley…

The Fireman's Ball

The Fireman's Ball

(4 stars)12 Aug 2009

(PG) 73min (Arrow Films DVD retail) COMEDY/DRAMA Milos Amadeus Forman’s much loved 1967 Czech New Wave lynchpin has the honour of being one of only four films to be ‘banned forever’ by the Czech/Soviet authorities of the day who presumed it was…

Watcher In The Attic

Watcher In The Attic

(4 stars)12 Aug 2009

Noboru Tanaka’s bizarre and perverse 1974 adaptation of one of Edgowa Rampo’s celebrated horror stories (the Japanese Edgar Allan Poe) has long been unavailable on any format in the west so this release is great news for fans of the Japanese Nikkatsu…

Cult Fiction Movies Opens

Cult Fiction Movies shop opens in Edinburgh

6 Aug 2009

To a certain type of movie fan, Newington’s newly-opened Cult Fiction Movies is a magical store where a litany of grindhouse double features, BFI Classics and films from America’s Criterion Collection which remain currently unavailable on this side of…

Comrades

Comrades

(5 stars)30 Jul 2009

It’s criminal that the late, great Edinburgh-born filmmaker Bill Douglas’ epic account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs should remain largely unseen two decades after it was released. Perhaps a three-hour long, slow-moving drama that mixed two apparently…

The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

(5 stars)30 Jul 2009

Martin Scorsese proclaimed Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s masterpiece ‘truly the most beautiful Technicolor film ever made.’ Marty should know, given he oversaw the restoration of the 1948 classic through his Film Foundation and then premiered…

Parade

Parade

(4 stars)30 Jul 2009

Released in 1974, the final film by the great French silent comedian Jacques Tati is a typically playful, though also extremely eloquent ending to his quarter-century film career. On the face of it nothing more than a series of circus acts compered by…

The Burrowers

Summer Horror DVD round-up

9 Jul 2009

First stop on our journey into the sinister world of horror is Arrow’s new ‘Masters of Giallo’ DVD imprint, launching with three decidedly depraved titles from a trio of Italian auteurs. Lamberto Bava’s Macabre (Arrow) ●●● is a dark psychosexual study…

Ultra

Ultra

(4 stars)9 Jul 2009

Ricky Tognazzi’s grim, but occasionally comical piece of social realism from 1990 might be seen as a fascinating insight into the kind of empty nihilism that has led to so many years of Berlusconi in Italy. In it, the lives of a group of Roma casuals…

Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II

(1 star)9 Jul 2009

If you’re a man of a certain age, chances are The Wild Geese made a lamentably unPC impact on your youth. So too, it’s likely that you found your way to the sequel, seven years later in 1985, but you don’t remember much about it. Here’s why: Peter…

Fine, Totally Fine

Fine, Totally Fine

(3 stars)9 Jul 2009

Less character-driven than character trait-driven, Yosuke Fujita’s film follows three youngish incompetents as they try to make the best of their lives, all played charmingly by well-known young Japanese actors. There is Yosiyosi Arakawa’s Teruo, the…

Max Manus: Man of War

Max Manus: Man of War

(4 stars)9 Jul 2009

This fact-based drama follows, somewhat in the manner of Black Book, the wartime experiences of the title character, a Norwegian resistance hero. As genre films go, Max Manus doesn’t wander far from tracks laid down for half a century, yet there’s a…

Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers

Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers

(3 stars)9 Jul 2009

A long-winded title for a film that ultimately runs out of puff, Funuke is at its best in the early stages. As a conceited struggling young actress comes back to her hometown after her parents’ death, Sumika (Sato Eriko) is as trapped in denial as she…

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