Author: Bianca Garner
In Two Minds: Exploring Schizophrenia in Altman's Images
Altman manages to treat the subject of schizophrenia in a sensitive manner without glamourizing it or mocking the illness. Images remains one of Altman’s strongest pieces, and has become forgotten in his vast filmography.
Bee's Bergman Diary – Wild Strawberries
When I was told that we were celebrating the 100th Birthday of Ingmar Bergman, I was a little embarrassed by the sheer lack of Bergman…
Top 20 Meryl Streep Performances Ranked
The Top 20 performances by Meryl Streep, as voted for by you, is like a treasure chest of golden acting. On the flip side, so…
Feeling Blue: The deeply disturbing Perfect Blue
It’s hard to find the words to describe Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, but I shall do my best to describe it. Perfect Blue is an…
''I yam what I yam.'' Why Popeye is Altman's forgotten masterpiece
Popeye wasn’t the commercial bomb that many believe. In fact the film grossed $6 million on its opening weekend in the U.S., and made $32,000,000 after 32 days. Although the film’s gross was decent, it was nowhere near the blockbuster that Paramount and Disney had expected, and was thus written off as a flop.
Quiet on the set: Breaking down the opening shot in Altman's The Player
”Quiet on the set,” are the first words we hear in the opening of Robert Altman’s The Player (1992), and instantly we know that we’re witnessing something that seems rare, and seldom heard of by those outside the film industry.
Play Violet For Me- Review
The archetypal figure of the double is cinema’s most often used trope to communicate notions of the uncanny. By definition, the double resembles the familiar…
Let's get critical: A new study confirms that film critics are mostly white men
What do Roger Ebert, Peter Travers, David Edelstein, Glenn Kenny, Owen Gleiberman and Mark Kermode all have in common? Well, three things: firstly their occupation,…
Take My Breath Away: In Defence of 1983's Breathless
Breathless looks music-video slick and drips with style, creating the sense of a heightened reality set on the streets of L.A. This is the nouvelle vague for the MTV generation. The story and characters in both films may seem similar, but to call the 1983 Breathless a remake is a naive assumption.
First Reactions: Suspiria
We open with the chilling score which immediately unsettles us, the music is high-pitched, eerie and disturbing, like a wailing wind. The medium shot of…
Mind Games: Revisting David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone
You are either in possession of a very new human ability… or a very old one. Dr. Sam Weizak (Herbert Lom) 1983 saw four film…
Local Hero: A Romantic Postcard from Scotland to the Rest of the World
I am proud of my Scottish roots, although I am sorry to say that I have only been there as a child. I will make…
So Long and Thanks for all the Laughs: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you’ve…
Sink Your Teeth Into This: Revisiting The Hunger (1983)
Nothing Human Loves Forever Tagline for The Hunger Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) and John (David Bowie), are your typically average elegant, fashion conscious and yuppie vampires-next-door…
