Category: Year in Film
Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Jungle Book
Thirty years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs changed the landscape of cinema as the very first feature-length animated film, Walt Disney’s death in 1966…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – The Incident
You would struggle to head on over to 1967, or indeed that defining era in American cinema in general, to find such a social commentary…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Cool Hand Luke
1967 was a groundbreaking year not only for the American film industry, but for American society as a whole. The opposition movement to the Vietnam…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Point Blank
Never have footsteps done so much to revolutionize filmmaking as they have in Point Blank. The film plays like an inversion of that old saying,…
Rewind: 1967 in Film – Le Samouraï
I think every film deserves a certain benefit of the doubt. By that I mean, you should always be prepared to watch a film through…
Innocence Lost: Peter Weir's First Masterpiece, Picnic at Hanging Rock
“You must learn to love someone other than me, I won’t be here for long.” – Miranda In among the American heavyweight movies of 1975,…
How Jaws Changed My Life and the World
Like most people, I’ll never forget the first time I saw Jaws. My parents had a copy of Peter Benchley’s original novel on our bookshelf at home….
Shivers – Humanity Collapsing From Within
Over the years, Cronenberg’s debut film Shivers has gained the reputation for being the ‘thinking man’s horror film’. It’s a film that provided both bloody…
Profondo rosso: A Classic in Deep Red From Dario Argento
I wonder how many of you claim to be die-hard Dario Argento fans, but haven’t even seen his 1975 masterwork, Profondo rosso (Deep Red). Or…
1975 Review: Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 is one of those films that’s eluded me my whole life. I remember seeing a poster for it about a decade back…
The Enduring Legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Every filmmaker hopes their piece of work will go on to become a classic. A film which people watch and discuss for decades to come….
East of Edie: How Grey Gardens Changed the Documentary
Once upon there was a beautiful house that represented the American dream. Inside the house, there were two beautiful, sophisticated socialites, who were part of…
François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani: Two of Cinema's Finest Recall L'Histoire d'Adèle H.
It may be neither here nor there as to how French filmmaking great, François Truffaut, shadowed some strong affections for the brash, bright actress, Isabelle…
The Day in a Life of a Woman: Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
There is nothing quite like the 1975 domestic drama Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. A three-hour epic, that follows the life of mother,…
