REVIEW — The Immortal Story (1968)
FilmJuice have my review of Orson Welles’ wonderfully lugubrious The Immortal Story, a low-budget adaptation of a Karen Blixen story. Set in Macao, the film tells of a Scrooge-like figure who attempts...
View ArticleREVIEW –Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
FilmJuice have my review of Alain Resnais’ iconic art house drama Hiroshima Mon Amour. Historical distance tends to result in cultural moments losing a lot of their nuance. For example, when we look...
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961) –Submitting to Another’s Interpretation
As I remarked in the introduction to my recent piece about Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad is one of a handful of works comprising the peak of the sensibility or movement known as European...
View ArticleREVIEW — Gemma Bovery (2014)
FilmJuice have my review of Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery, an adaptation of that Posy Simmonds strip that ran in the Guardian a few years ago… Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary given a modern make-over...
View ArticleThe Essence of Jean-Luc Godard (sort of)
Earlier this year, Studiocanal began re-releasing the early films of the iconic art house director Jean-Luc Godard. Freshly restored and re-mastered, these re-releases not only kicked off a major...
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The New Girlfriend (2014) – What Lies Beneath (Ain’t So Bad, Ain’t So Bad)
François Ozon is to Claude Chabrol as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are to John Wyndham. John Wyndham is a post-war British science fiction writer who has long been tarred with the masterful brushstrokes of...
View ArticleREVIEW — Couple in a Hole (2015)
*taps mic* Is this thing still on? Good. FilmJuice have my review of Tom Geens’ excellent Couple in a Hole, a Anglo-French drama that set amidst the mountains and forests of South-Western France. While...
View ArticleREVIEW – La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
FilmJuice have my review of Gerard Oury’s La Grande Vadrouille. Which, despite being one of the most insanely popular French films of all time, remains largely unappreciated by English-speaking...
View ArticleREVIEW – Day for Night (1973)
FilmJuice have my review of Francois Truffaut’s thoroughly excellent Day for Night, also known as Nuit Americaine in reference to the practice of recreating night on-screen by shifting the white...
View ArticleREVIEW — Indochine (1992)
My first review of the year is of a film that is as intriguing as it is flawed and problematic. First released in 1992, Regis Wargnier’s Indochine can only be described as a piece of post-colonial...
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