Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!

PTA just gets DDL as no other director does; he's a transformative actor, yes, but he's also rather silly. He will dance in a sozzled rage, he will react to the crunching of toast like it's the most insulting act in the world. It's like how Scorsese is the only one who knows that De Niro is funny.

For the BFI, I revisited some adolescent me favourites for this review of the dud-less career of Paul Thomas Anderson. An interesting moment for me: realising just how many Daniel Plainviewisms have made it into my everyday speech. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!

Delighted to be introducing probably the greatest J-horror of them all in Hackney for Halloween. See you there!

BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5 5)Last Tycoon (Kazan) 4)Boston Strangler (Fleischer) 3)Spartacus (Kubrick) 2)Some Like it Hot (Wilder) 1)Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
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Big fan of Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler. I wrote about Tony Curtis' (great) performance in it for his centenary. www.bfi.org.uk/features/fin...

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HBD Harvey Keitel!!! MCCT5 5)Who's/Knocking (Scorsese) 4)Death Watch (Tavernier) 3)Ulysses Gaze (Angelopoulos) 2)Bad Timing (Roeg) 1)Mean St (Scorsese)
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Gone With the Wind: so wilfully dishonest, disdainful and supremacist, and so full of caricatures and self-centred bastards it could have been written by Ayn Rand. Some neat expressionistic sequences, and Olivia de Havilland gives some life to her two-dimensional goodwife, but good God what a slog.

Richard Widmark: the original Walton Goggins.

Stagecoaches burn, as the Fordian hero ceases to believe in the American West altogether. A beautifully imperfect, halfway revisionist Western featuring some regrettably dated casting, Cheyenne Autumn is John Ford challenging racist myths that his own earlier films helped to perpetuate. Epic elegy.

Shown as part of the @karinalongworth.bsky.social The Old Man Is Still Alive season. Tomorrow, Cheyenne Autumn!

Today at BFI Southbank, Vincente Minnelli's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was a revelation. A queasily lush study on what gives rise to fascism - some seduced by it, others remaining 'neutral' while it creeps closer to their door - to be mentioned in the same breath as Visconti's The Damned.

If there’s one film you must see in the @karinalongworth.bsky.social season at BFI it’s this late Minnelli movie today. Includes Karina introduction …

Nicky Katt was a Timothy Carey for the 90s/00s: we only ever got him in small doses, but the live wire energy often made him the most riveting, dangerous performer in a scene.

Thank you to all who came along to the sold-out @distortedframe.bsky.social screening of INLAND EMPIRE at The Victoria Dalston on Sunday. Thanks also to @lindsayhallam.bsky.social for the excellent intro, and to Juna Lypenko and Damo Alexander for the Lynchian post-film music.

Until the next one!

Remembering that glorious time three years ago when I watched every Francis Ford Coppola film (odds are good you've never heard of Gardens of Stone) to write this primer on that New Hollywood king. Take another look at his 1980s stuff!

Come join us!

This is the Lynch-approved 4K restoration, which enhances the image while retaining the film's unnerving early digital aesthetic. Remastering of the film overseen by Lynch himself, with the original lo-fi Sony PD150 image and sound up-resed for increased definition and clarity.

What we're doing at @distortedframe.bsky.social at The Victoria Dalston on Sun 6 Apr: showing the 2022 remaster of INLAND EMPIRE, with intro by @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and followed by music from 'Roadhouse DJs' Juna and Damo Alexander. Join us! Tickets and more info here: dice.fm/event/v3mwa6...

I think it again comes back to Che: that was a two-part bio full of stuff, and ever since the failure of it prompted Soderbergh to 'retire', his subsequent films - most of which have been around the 90min mark - have been like filmed experiments in telling a story with the least story possible.

I'm enjoying the post-retirement phase of his career for the most part, but it seems like the Che experience broke something in Soderbergh - he's been all technique and little depth ever since. You can sense his engagement craft-wise, but there's not much emotional weight to his films these days.

Gonna be mint.