A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Kenneth Anger, “Rabbit’s Moon” (started 1950: long version 1972, short version 1979) Based on a Japanese myth about a rabbit on the moon, this film comes…
Kenneth Anger, “Fireworks” (1947) Quite a remarkable debut film this is from a 17-year-old Kenneth Anger which is a coming-of-age piece recreating a dream he had:…
David M Edwards, “Sprawling from Grace, Driven to Madness” (2008) Stumbled across this very pertinent documentary on the consequences of Western societies’ dependence on cars as…
Mats Lundberg, “Black Metal Satanica” (2008) This documentary promised initially to be a fairly in-depth investigation of the Scandinavian black metal music scene and its agenda…
Pål Aasdal, Martin Ledang “Once upon a time in Norway” (2007) This one-hour film is a straightforward blow-by-blow chronological account of the early career of Mayhem,…
Kenneth Anger, “Lucifer Rising” (1981) Begun some time in the 1960s but not fully completed until 1981, with the music soundtrack having to be revamped completely,…
Paul Verhoeven, “Starship Troopers” (1997) Loosely adapted from the Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, this film can be read as a caricature on several…
Edmund Elias Merhige, “Din of Celestial Birds” (2006) Astonishing little film – it’s just 10 minutes long – about evolution and the development of consciousness, “Din…
Craig Murray, “Amalgam” (2007) Using just a handycam and his own home as set to make a black-and-white film on next-to-no budget starring himself and a few…
Ruaridh Arrow, “How to Start a Revolution” (2011) Here’s an interesting one-hour documentary about Gene Sharp, a modest political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of…