A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Tanya Wexler, “Hysteria” (2011) A romantic comedy very loosely based on historical fact, “Hysteria” purports to tell how Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville invented the world’s first…
Terry Jones and Rob Coldstream, “Terry Jones’ Barbarians (Episode 2: The Savage Goths)” (2006) Drolly narrated by Terry Jones, he of the Monty Python’s Flying Circus…
Dick Fontaine, “Mailer for Mayor” (1969) This BBC documentary was included in UK journalist / film-maker Adam Curtis’s recent post “White Negro for Mayor” on his…
Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” (1986) In the wake of news that British heavy metal band Judas Priest will cease touring and will be in…
Samuel Hobkinson, “The Romantics (Episode 1: Liberty)” (2005) This episode introduces the political and cultural background to the explosion of English Romanticist literature in the late…
Samuel Hobkinson, “The Romantics (Episode 3: Eternity)” (2005) Visually striking installment in the BBC documentary “The Romantics” which traces the work and biographies of significant literary…
Samuel Hobkinson, “The Romantics (Episode 2: Nature)” (2005) While searching for a Czech documentary “Zdroj” (“The Source”) on Youtube and not finding it there – it…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Sally Aitken, “Seduction in the City: the Birth of Shopping (Episode 2: A Modern Game)” (2011) Continuing briskly and trippingly from Episode 1 “A Genius Idea”,…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Sally Aitken, “Seduction in the City: the Birth of Shopping (Episode 1: A Genius Idea)” (2011) Ah, shopping – the bane of modern life or the…
Mel Bucklin, “Emma Goldman – An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman” (2003) This portrait of Emma Goldman, the American woman anarchist / political activist / writer / feminist…