THE GREEN MAN (Dir. Robert Day, 1956)
Alastair Sim had that rare natural faculty, innately switching from pleasant English gentleman to scheming bastard, all with the quintessential shit eating grin. The Green Man, a cornerstone of Sim’s…
Category: British Cinema
THE GOOD DIE YOUNG (Dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1954)
Released in 1954, Lewis Gilbert’s The Good Die Young, a neglected British-American hybrid noir, relates a post office robbery through a series of flashbacks in which we are introduced to…
THE NINE MUSES (Dir. John Akomfrah, 2010, UK)
A video essay or an experimental film? John Akomfrah’s masterly analysis of immigration is a video essay that fluently mixes archive footage with mythological musings. Although it might be useful…
TRISHNA (Dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2012, UK) – The Troubled Maiden
The beautiful Freida Pinto as Trishna. Micheal Winterbottom works so quickly that it’s hard to keep up with him. His latest feature sees him returning to Thomas Hardy, this time…
