Features
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Secret Cinema: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
Secret Cinema in partnership with Windows Phone and Mind, the mental health charity, presented Milos Forman’s classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) at The Princess Louise Hospital in North Kensington, London this November, and CineVue were once again kindly invited to review the event.Clearly, much had been learned from September’s three gargantuan screenings…
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Barbican Film: ‘Hana-Bi’
Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano is without doubt one of the most influential figures in contemporary Japanese culture. From his humble beginnings as a young stand-up comic to his professional transition into the world of television and filmmaking, his rich and vastly dynamic career has spanned several decades and has seen him become one of Japan’s most…
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Barbican Film: Japanese Halloween Schlockfest Double Bill
Why is Japanese cinema loved on a world wide scale? The simple answer is because it dares to tread the ground that mainstream, westernised film will not. Whilst movies like Scream (1996) and Saw (2004) attempt to display the motives and reasons behind inhumane, bloodthirsty violence, J-Horror makes no such excuses and even attempts to…
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Curzon Screentalks: ‘Peeping Tom’ 50th Anniversary rerelease
“The only really satisfactory way to dispose of Peeping Tom would be to shovel it up and flush it swiftly down the nearest sewer”, wrote Derek Hill in his review for The Tribune after seeing Michael Powell’s 1960 psychological thriller, Peeping Tom. A vicious and petulant outburst to say the least, it is perhaps the…
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See Film Differently: ‘An American Werewolf in London’…Zoo
This Halloween, Volkswagen’s See Film Differently campaign put a wolf amongst the emus (well, almost), with an exclusive screening of cult director John Landis’ horror-comedy classic, An American Werewolf in London (1981), at London Zoo. If you were asked to compile a list of the most iconic London locations immortalised for eternity on the silver-screen,…
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Barbican Film: ‘Moomins and the Comet Chase’
Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010) is a whimsical tale of adventure and fantasy that will capture the imagination of children and big kids everywhere. With a fantastic cast that includes Swedish father and son duo Stellen and Alexander Skarsgård, as well as Peter Stormare, Tove Jannson’s wonderful characters really do come to life.The story,…
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Barbican Film: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Blackmail’
When considering the many great works of Alfred Hitchcock, the title Blackmail (1929) is, for many, not one that would immediately spring to mind. Far more likely would be those famous household titles, such as Rebecca (1940), Psycho (1960), or The Birds (1963), each having embedded themselves firmly into the fabric of cinematic and popular…
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Barbican Film: ‘Instant Swamp’
Instant Swamp (2009), Satoshi Miki’s quirky comedy about the disillusionment of the contemporary Japanese lifestyle certainly doesn’t disappoint. As part of The Barbican’s ‘Girlsworld: Women in Contemporary Japanese Cinema’ series, Instant Swamp artistically and hilariously highlights the struggles of modern women in Japan, with a lead evoking an edgy, Japanese ‘Bridget Jones’.This charming and personable movie follows…
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Special Feature: Hammer Horror – the Resurrection
If you mention the name of Hammer Horror to any forty-plus film enthusiast (or similarly, any cinephile worth their salt), it’s more than likely that they’ll begin nostalgically harking back to the “Golden Age” of UK horror cinema that took place between the 1950s up until the early ‘70s, during which time Hammer Films –…
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Barbican Film: ‘Metropolis’
Over 80 years after its initial cinematic release, German expressionist Fritz Lang’s silent dystopian masterpiece Metropolis (1927) has now finally been re-assembled back into its near-original form, with the 25 minute addition of several long-lost, restored scenes discovered in 2008 on a rusty roll of celluloid deep in the archives of the Museo del Cine,…
