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Well I suppose it all makes sense

If someone didn’t invent the theory first at some point over the last 6,000 years – the period during which, I was once informed by someone who should know, human civilisation has existed – in my previous existence as a fictional blogger I came up with the concept that reality was in fact a [...]

August 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Bad Timing (1980)

I have been invited to speak at the Third Man Museum in Vienna on Graham Greene’s Film World and this will be my first visit to the city. I had lunch with one of the most entertaining and informed contributors to my film lists, Michael Cole – whose daughter lives in Vienna – to [...]

August 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Trial and error

In my youth I was never much of a Peter Sellers fan. My father considered him a fine mimic but doubted if his film legacy would last. I found neither the Goons nor Inspector Clouseau that amusing, but silly, unlike Prince Charles who reputedly laughed so much at a Goon show he wet his next door [...]

July 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Book it, Dano!

With apologies for not deferring to the legend that is our film editor Neil Rosen, I am such a devotee of artistic disasters that I could not help bringing the new British film Pudsey The Dog: The Movie to the attention of National Rust readers. Based upon this review by Peter Bradshaw, it surely [...]

July 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Housemaid

Oriental cinema has often suffered from a martial arts image but it has made an important contribution to world cinema. This has much to do with the work of Ang Lee, who won multiple cinema awards  for Brokeback Mountain and is  one of the world’s most esteemed directors. Though born in [...]

July 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Pornographer

This French film, directed by Bertrand  Bonello, has generated controversy both sides of the channel as the British Film censors the BBFC have excised one shot to allow it a 18 certificate. The director is outraged. It raises that hardy perennial of what is art and what is porn? In this case the [...]

July 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming Home

In a period of 10 years American cinema produced some fine films hardhitting films about Vietnam: Apocalypse Now (1979), Good Morning Vietnam (1987) and Platoon (1986). Coming Home (1978) is not as remembered as much as the last three but, watching it recently, it engages more issues than the other [...]

June 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Wolf of Wall Street

An astute film buff I know suggested that, since I admired Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, I should abandon my prejudice of contemporary American cinema and see The Wolf of Wall Street. I was doing the weekly  shop when I saw the DVD and duly bought it. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, it [...]

June 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodfellas

Readers know that I am no admirer of contemporary American cinema. However there is one genre where they lead the world: the mobster movie. We have had back and white era classics such as  Scarface, White Heat, The Petrified Forest, The Asphalt Jungle. There was a significant change in 1972 with [...]

June 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Those were the days

I don’t know why or how, but I was reminded today of the famous roadside café scene from Five Easy Pieces (1970), directed by Bob Rafleson, one of Jack Nicholson’s early great movies. Looking at it again, one is reminded both by how good Jack was in those days – and indeed, how [...]

June 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

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