A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Martin Scorsese, “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” (1963) Martin Scorsese, “The Big Shave” (1967) Two hilarious short films from Martin…
Rein Raamat, “Põrgu (Hell)” (1983) While watching “Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees”, I noticed that Thronoi the Bear who had uploaded this…
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
David Blair, “Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees” (1991) One of my favourite science fiction films since I first saw it in the…
Alfred Hitchcock, “The Birds” (1963) Based on a 1952 short story by English writer Daphne du Maurier – one of Hitchcock’s favourite sources for film plots…
Declan Whitebloom, “Prophets of Science Fiction (Episode 1: Mary Shelley)” (2011) This episode revolves around Mary Godwin-Shelley’s famous novel “Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus” and the…
Ryuhei Kitamura, “Aragami” (2003) The Japan Foundation Office across the road from where I work put on a week’s worth of Japanese films during the April…
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, “28 Weeks Later” (2007) On paper it looked like a good idea: a sequel to the original zombies-on-the-run flick “28 Days Later” by…
Pansu Kim, “Sleep Tight My Baby” (2001) Very devastating film about a teenage girl trapped with a baby and quarrelling parents filmed in one continuous take; much…
French and French-language Films
Walerian Borowczyk, “Les Jeux des Anges” (1964) So far the strangest film I have seen from Borowczyk, “Les Jeux …” at first doesn’t appear to have…
Jan Lenica, “The Labyrinth / Labirynt” (1963) Superficially this looks like a Terry Gilliam / Monty Python animated cartoon and it is indeed very funny and…