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Melancholia

Melancholia

Lars von Trier's sci-fi drama features star turns from Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg

(4 stars)21 Sep 2011

(15) 135min Melancholia is like the inversion of TS Elliot’s much quoted dictum. Is this how the world will end? With a bang not a whimper. Lars Von Trier’s curious, enigmatic and deterministic film seeks to equate the black dog of depression with an…

World on a Wire

World on a Wire

(5 stars)18 May 2010

(15) 204min (Second Sight) What a beautiful world we live in. This is the restored, pristine digital print of little seen two-part 1973 German TV sci-fi drama directed by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Even better it turns out it’s actually a…

Hipsters, Bad Lieutenant and a Frightfest at GFF

Hipsters, Bad Lieutenant and a Frightfest at GFF

Glasgow Film Festival blog

1 Mar 2010

Friday afternoon. I decide to brave the vertiginous screens at Glasgow’s Cineworld Renfrew Street where some festival films are also showing. I make the perverse choice of Hipsters, a Russian film with no current UK distributor about a group of post…

Moon

Moon

19 Jan 2010

Catch Duncan Jones’ smart, impressive debut on the big screen one last time. Showing as part of season celebrating ten great films from 2009. Filmhouse, Edinburgh on Mon 1 Feb.

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

DVD Box Set Round-up

28 May 2009

Film historian, writer, avant-garde underground filmmaker and occultist Kenneth Anger is one of the more interesting individuals to have emerged from California’s Santa Monica hills in the second half of the 20th century. Anger and his work were…

Blade Runner: Final Cut

Blade Runner: Final Cut

29 Nov 2007

Some filmmakers just love to fiddle, and Ridley Scott is one of the worst fiddlers in the business. This is (allegedly) the final, definitive cut of his already near iconic 1982 sci fi classic. In any version this great movie is well worth catching on…

DVD - Forbidden Planet

(5 stars)4 Jun 2007

SCI FI/ADAPTATION The best screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (although Derek Jarman’s punk opera 1979 version comes a close second) finally gets a decent DVD transfer with some formidable extras. Made in 1956, Fred M Wilcox’s (Lassie…

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