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Black Sun: The Nankin Massacre - DVD review

Black Sun: The Nankin Massacre

(3 stars)11 Dec 2006

HISTORY/HORROR This is a very weird amalgam of sub-standard video nasty style gore and sanctimonious documentary footage of the Nanking massacre of 1937. The film might have been a genuine exploitation classic, or a horrifically reflective…

Ingmar Bergman Collection - DVD review

The Ingmar Bergman Collection

(4 stars)27 Nov 2006

BOX SET For a filmmaker who’s recently denounced Godard as a ‘desperate’ bore, Welles as a ‘phoney’ and Antonioni as someone who never learned his craft, Bergman wouldn’t make much of a critic. But how does he compete with the people he condemns?

Kz

(4 stars)13 Nov 2006

Filmed over five weeks at the Austrian concentration camp, Mauthausen, documentarian Rex Bloomstein follows tour guides and tourists around the site as visitors discover the drip drip accumulation of the dehumanisation process. As the guides move…

Nun and the Devil, The - DVD review

The Nun and the Devil

(3 stars)13 Nov 2006

HORROR/SOFT CORE PORN The nun movie pretty much became a genre of its own in the 70s, with The Devils, Flavia, Killer Nun and Behind Convent Walls among the ‘nun-sploitation’ movies that got into the habit. The genre’s reputation as a titillating way…

Film books

Screen Stories

26 Oct 2006

David Bordwell’s The Way Hollywood Tells It (University of California Press - 4 stars) is a very impressive look at recent American cinema’s fascination with ‘impact aesthetics’ and intensified continuity. Bordwell, the author of classic film…

The Host

Monster Movie

(3 stars)26 Oct 2006

When some radioactive substance finds its way into the water supply, and a huge monster fish rises up out of the peaceful waters around Seoul, a local stallholder’s family is all that stands between imminent disasters. This likeable Godzilla-style…

John Pilger - Documentaries That Changed the World

John Pilger - Documentaries That Changed the World

(4 stars)2 Oct 2006

POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY It’s hard not to feel ambivalence towards anyone who insists on partisanship. John Pilger is a case in point. A genuinely crusading print and TV journalist, Pilger has been fighting for the rights of the poor, the put-upon and…

Night Porter, The - DVD review

The Night Porter

(3 stars)18 Sep 2006

DRAMA This notorious 1974 film about a Holocaust survivor who, years later, becomes infatuated with one of the Nazis who terrorised her in the camps was just one of a number that attempted to deal with the after-effects of fascism at the time.

Regular Lovers (Les Amant Reguliers)

(18) 184min

(5 stars)1 Sep 2006

Regular Lovers (Les Amant Reguliers) - Meditation/Romance

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