It’s safe to say that many cinema purists would not stand for a remake of The Wizard of Oz (1939) – unless, of course, the remake in question is The Wiz (1978). Yes, it’s the same old stuff with Dorothy, a brainless scarecrow, a cowardly lion and a heartless tin man, travelling along a yellow… Continue reading The Wiz
Following the Oscar season, there is no shortage of hype surrounding winners of those coveted golden statuettes handed out each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If the Hollywood marketing hype is to be believed, a film’s worth is to be measured by the number of accolades it has received. The… Continue reading Roller Skating into the Astor…
Nobody does crazy like Jack Nicholson. Cuckoo isn’t his only kind of crazy – you recently saw him on the SuperScreen in The Shining – Extended Version, cutting it up with an axe. Still, where Stanley Kubrick examines the effects of isolation and the persistence of the past, Milos Forman questions our very perception of… Continue reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ash Wednesday, written, directed and animated by Marieka Walsh, narrated by Colin Friels A beautiful sand animation starts this epic journey set to a voice-over narration of T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, Ash Wednesday. Grains of sand, bigger pictures, short stories, free interpretation, distance and closeness; Tim Winton’s The Turning is a unique cinema experience… Continue reading Tim Winton’s The Turning
That’s what Thumper asks as he watches Bambi attempt to stand up and walk for the first time. Bambi is Disney’s earlier version of Simba. Divined into princedom from birth, Bambi’s biggest challenge is learning the symbolic order and entering into the patriarch. All the small marsupials and birds of the forest are there to… Continue reading Kinda Wobbly, Isn’t He?
An out-of-work drifter (professional wrestling legend ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper) wanders into Los Angeles, looking for work and a place to stay. An idealistic individual, he believes that America is the land of opportunity, so long as you work hard, remain patient and follow the rules. However, our drifter is about to have his illusions shattered,… Continue reading They Live: John Carpenter Shows Us The World As It Really Is
There were more twists and turns in the making of the film of The Guns Of Navarone (1961) than the fertile mind of best-selling author Alistair Maclean could ever have dreamed up. The movie narrowly avoided filming in the middle of a civil war, caused a court martial, the director had to be replaced and star… Continue reading New Book About The Making Of The Guns Of Navarone by Brian Hannan
We are very pleased, thanks to ASC, to share the sentiments of their very first store employee, Dom Harman. Here’s what he had to say about the man of steel: In his book about the film They Live (1988), author Jonathan Lethem talks of preserving sequences of film history making a case for when the… Continue reading It’s a bird… It’s a plane…
Nicholas Waxman reflects on what Die Hard (1988) means to him… I was only 6 months old when Die Hard blasted onto movie screens around the world and raised the bar to an unreachable height for all action movies to come. Die Hard is arguably the best action film ever made, it is most certainly the greatest… Continue reading Always Die Hard
One of my most vivid childhood recollections is attending the cinema in the hopes of seeing Ghostbusters (1984), the Ivan Reitman science-fiction comedy horror about four intrepid men who must save New York City – and indeed, the entire world – from destruction at the hands of paranormal beings from another dimension. Note that I… Continue reading WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
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