Lost River (2014)

Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River (2014), has always sat there beckoning me. When it came out, it received mixed to poor reviews and sort of disappeared. Yet it also looks like a Nicolas Winding Refn movie, who I am a fan of. After years of putting it off, I finally dove in. For the […]

Trash Classics: Program 1

Screened: Fri 25 Jun – Fri 27 Aug, 2021Luna Leederville Trash Classics revives the spirit of the VHS rental onto the big screen with a cult movie favourite each month. Whether you are a raging fan or a curious newbie, these titles range from ‘so bad it’s good’ to ‘how did this get made?’, providing […]

The Coward (1965)

The Coward (1965) – also known as Kapurush – is a film by Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Having only seen Pather Panchali, I am still pretty clueless about Ray’s filmography and only heard about The Coward with the recent Criterion Channel’s spotlight on the director’s work. The story itself – a screenwriter encounters a past […]

Army Of Shadows (1969)

Programming the VCR recorder to tape Le Samourai off daytime SBS was my introduction to director Jean-Pierre Meville, mainly because I’d read about him in old classic cinema books as well as knowing that film was an influence on John Woo’s The Killer (as well as Ronin, Ghost Dog, etc). I’ve only slowly caught up […]

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Crossing another title off the list of movies covered in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2 that I had not seen: My Darling Clementine (1946). An iconic western directed by John Ford about Wyatt Earp (here, played by a young Henry Fonda, laconic and measured in his performance) and Doc Holiday (Victor Mature, stolid yet tortured), […]