The first time I heard of Deadly Prey was when Mack posted a youtube clip of it in these pages. Intrigued I started to snoop around and finally found it on a torrent site, which is the easiest way of...

(Note: this is not a film that screened at Rotterdam this year, but given the festival helped release it seven years ago and publish what is currently the only DVD available with English subtitles, IFFR 2010 seemed a good...

(Though he's now (indirectly) best known in the West for The Founding of a Republic making the PRC very large sums of money, director Huang Jianxin remains one of Chinese cinema's best-kept secrets. For more than twenty years he's...

(Though he's now (indirectly) best known in the West for The Founding of a Republic making the PRC very large sums of money, director Huang Jianxin remains one of Chinese cinema's best-kept secrets. For more than twenty years he's...

"Let's off the boss!"Louise-Michel is a try-hard, darker than black comedy tribute to anarchy and at its core honours the real life anarchist of the same name, but seems to have confused intentions and mistakes the concept of anarchy with...

(Though he's now (indirectly) best known in the West for The Founding of a Republic making the PRC very large sums of money, director Huang Jianxin remains one of Chinese cinema's best-kept secrets. In the hope of pointing out... More >>

In his review of AMOR for the PFA monograph The Films of Robert Beavers, Richard Suchenski writes (2009:12): "More than most works of their kind, the films of Robert Beavers are hard to describe in words without eliminating everything... More >>

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My thanks to Frako Loden for sharing the following essay with the Twitch readership. The redoubtable folks at Film on Film Foundation, dedicated to screening films strictly on celluloid, move to the Roxie Cinema this Sunday to show the very... More >>

Let me just begin with the fact that I am loving the 're-discovery' of Peter Watkins' filmography on DVD. A good number of his films seemed to have skipped both repertory cinema and VHS (outside of rare and ratty VHS... More >>