Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky https://t.co/493Lknwogt
A bit too neat and tidy, maybe, but Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky is serious and sincere and has two canny performances at its centre: Anatoliy Solonitsyn as the Russian writer and Evgeniya Simonov...
The Cameraman https://t.co/7vlI1yn9Om
For Buster Keaton, it all went right and it all went wrong in 1928 and The Cameraman is where it all collides. Widely considered to be one of his masterpieces, the film marks the point where Keaton loses control of his own narrative. He’...
Exit 8 https://t.co/B5581PBUOH
A man on the Tokyo subway struggles to find the exit. That’s the entire plot of Exit 8, proof that it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it. This is a tense and atmospheric chunk of quasi-scifi, owing something if not everything to...
Gentlemen of Fortune https://t.co/ypxybDcG6P
You might not associate frivolous caper comedy with the dour Soviet Union of five-year plans, but that’s what Gentlemen of Fortune is. A larky affair that probably works best if you get all the cultural specifics, it's perfectly e...
Rebuilding https://t.co/uy70pgKALf
In plain language Rebuilding doesn’t sound like much of a proposition. A guy whose farm has been burnt out by a devastating fire tries to put his life back together while taking shelter in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer. Tha...
100 Years of… A Page of Madness https://t.co/4VQ6hkmIR5
Madness indeed. A Page of Madness was made in 1926 on next to no budget, by a talented director aided by a group of demented avant-garde writers called the Shinkankakuha, who were determined to break free from the shack...
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie https://t.co/Y9Dhsi48g2
If you’re over the age of eight, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie is probably not something you’ll have come across, or the Netflix show it sprang from. Its star, Laila Lockhart Kraner, probably won’t mean much to you either. ...
Twisted Nerve https://t.co/PwnQyAg0Z8
“A twisted nerve, a ganglion gone awry, predestines the sinner or the saint.” Twisted Nerve gets its title from a poem by George Sylvester Viereck – a German migrant who did time in a USA jail for being a Nazi spy – and worries away at t...
Red Right Hand https://t.co/TAnEAVieNa
We’re in Appalachia for Red Right Hand, latest film by the Nelms brothers, Eshom and Ian. And immediately having said Appalachia, the shades start to assemble. Poor lives on the margin. Cackling inbreeds. Illicit drugs. Attack dogs. Tat...
The Night Porter https://t.co/UOx5kRcMod
Problematical movies Exhibit A – The Night Porter. The story of a former guard at a concentration camp who meets up with an erstwhile prisoner some years later and starts a sexual relationship with her. Roger Ebert thought it “nasty”,...