Category: British Cinema

• Performance (1970)

  September 13, 2019

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, British Cinema, Crime, Music

  Continuing to backtrack through the work of director Nicolas Roeg, and I didn’t realise he co-directed Performance (1970) with its writer Donald Cammell. First, I was surprised to see the typically urbane and upper crust James Fox convincingly play a cockney gangster, a real sadistic rotter who gets into a bit of sticky bother with… Read.

• The Brides Of Dracula (1960)

  September 9, 2019

  1960s, British Cinema, Horror

  Back into the vaults of Hammer Studios and viewing for the first time, The Brides Of Dracula (1960). There’s no Dracula, no Christopher Lee. Instead, a school teacher (Yvonne Monlaur), travelling to her new school, inadvertently spends the night at the castle of Baroness Meinster (Martita Hunt) and unwittingly frees the Baroness’ imprisoned golden haired… Read.

• The Devils (1971)

  September 2, 2019

  1970s, British Cinema

  Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) has been a notorious prospect to me, a film that received considerable controversy on release, was a box office hit in the UK, yet was also banned in a few places and a director’s cut has still not been released by Warner Brothers despite its critical reappraisal over the years.… Read.