The Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, sailors, sirens, sinister scheming, and that stunning hall of mirrors finale.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli’s insider look at the golden age of Hollywood is sly and slickly entertaining, with Kirk Douglas as the unscrupulous producer Jonathan Shields adding a tough edge.
Review by Eithne Farry
L’atalante
Jean Vigo’s story of two newly-weds on a barge is magical, ethereal and romantic, but with dashes of surrealism and social realism.
Review by Eithne Farry
Les enfants du paradis
To have made a simple, domestic drama in these circumstances would have been impressive, but Marcel Carné’s film is a riotous, romantic costume melodrama, with magnificent sets.
Review by Eithne Farry
Sawako Decides
Sawako’s life is less than stellar. Given that the film opens with the titular heroine having a spot of comic colonic irrigation, it invites comparison to a more fundamental element.
Review by Eithne Farry
Tears for Sale
If you were to whisper words of reproof into the ear of Serbian director Uros Stojanovic, they would be: ‘Less sex, more hearse.’
Review by Eithne Farry
Fish Story
Happenstance, predestination, mishaps, mistakes, premonitions, paranormal record collectors, an earthbound comet and a fateful proto-punk record are just a few elements of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s utterly charming Fish Story.
Review by Eithne Farry
Insane Melancholy and Absurd Melodrama: The Saddest Music in the World
Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World is an unexpected, but seductive marriage between a Grimm fairy tale and a musical melodrama, full of sparkling one-liners.
Review by Eithne Farry
FIREFLY DREAMS
Naomi, played with surly grace by Maho Ukai is a sulky city kid with dyed, pale orange Lion King hair and a sullen pout that’s projected in the direction of her exasperated parents.
Review by Eithne Farry
MEMORIES OF MATSUKO
Director Tetsuya Nakashima (of Kamikaze Girls fame) has a neon-bright vision, and his love of super-saturated colour, moody lighting and musicals gives this self-aware melodramatic weepy a slick, inventive cartoon dreaminess that is luminously arresting.
Review by Eithne Farry