There are few films that have amassed quite as intense a following as The Wicker Man, the darkly comical horror by debut director Robin Hardy, who instantly forged a path for himself as someone of great significance in the canon of horror history, even if this film was his only notable work. A gloriously dark…
Sleeper (1973)
Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) goes into the hospital for a routine operation, which turns out to not be a success. However, instead of dying, he is cryogenically frozen and is woken up in the year 2173, two centuries later. Not only does he have to overcome the shock of being thrust into the future so…
Day for Night (1973)
“Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive” These words are spoken by the character of Ferrand, the central character of François Truffaut’s gorgeous film, Day for Night (French: La Nuit américaine)….
Touki Bouki (1973)
Mory (Magaye Niang) is a young man living in rural Senegal, where he is known widely throughout the village for a few key qualities: his motorcycle adorned with a cow skull, his casual disregard for authority and his ambitions to get out of Senegal and make a life for himself elsewhere, leaving behind a relatively…
Serenity (2019)
NOTE: This review contains spoilers. Should you decide to watch this tragedy of a film, beware that there is a certain plot development that just can’t be avoided when talking about this trash masterpiece. Towards the beginning of Serenity, Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is in a bar. He is talking to some of his compatriots…
Ray & Liz (2019)
A few years ago, I went through a period of intense interest in the work of Diane Arbus, captivated by her ability to capture reality in a way that was most beautiful but grotesque, simple but layered with meaning, all portrayed through the most gorgeous photographs I’d ever seen, which spoke to me unlike anything…
Woman at War (2019)
Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) is a mild-mannered choir teacher who harbours a very unconventional secret – when she is not conducting the ragtag group of citizens in harmonious arrangements, she is the infamous “Woman of the Mountain”, a activist (some would call her a vandal) who has taken it upon herself to prevent the encroaching threat…
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
We get it – Quentin Tarantino loves movies. There aren’t many film directors who make it known how much cinema has influenced them as him – and it has been both an endearing quirk in the career of a filmmaker who has built a relatively iconic reputation from the work of others (this isn’t a…
Fantastic Planet (1973)
When it comes to animated films, very few are as original or daring as Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète Sauvage), the audacious French-Czech science fiction epic by René Laloux that has come to be seen as one of the most iconic animated films of the 1970s, and an indelible part of arthouse science fiction. A…
Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973)
Somewhere in a modern Russian metropolis stands a large apartment building, just like any other. Inside there are two occupants that we are very interested in, and who form the core of the story. The first is Aleksandr ‘Shurik’ Timofeev (Aleksandr Demyanenko), a meek but brilliant inventor who works on a variety of scientific projects,…
The Postmodern Pelican 