Blu-ray Review: ‘Van Gogh’
★★★★☆ The biopic – with its predilection towards didacticism and earnestness – has always been a troublesome form of cinema but, with Van Gogh (1991), […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘La Notte’
★★★★☆ Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni was never one to shy away from an elliptical narrative. Depending on your temperament, his cold, alienating projections have been […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Lonely Wife’ & ‘The Coward’
★★★★★ The years 1964-5 saw the release of Satyajit Ray’s arguable masterpiece The Lonely Wife (Charulata) and the smaller variation on a theme, The Coward […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘Convoy’
★★★☆☆ Based on the popular song of the same name by C. W. McCall (yes, really), Hollywood hell-raiser Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy (1978) gets an unexpected […]