Sisters
Central to De Palma’s films is the idea that the normal and the psychotic are symbiotic.
Review by Nicola Woodham
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The Machine
A stylish contender among sci-fi films that explore the inscrutable question of whether artificial consciousness can exist.
Review by Nicola Woodham
Squirm
Jeff Lieberman’s 1976 debut feature film is well aware of its ludicrous premise, although as ‘ecological parable’ it may have some resonance.
Review by Nicola Woodham
No One Lives
Ryuhei Kitamura’s No One Lives is a genre-fusing gore fest, streamlined for an attention deficit, post-everything generation.
Review by Nicola Woodham
Onibaba
Kaneto Shind;;’s Onibaba (1964) is an allegorical tale of transformation and uncovered deception.
Review by Nicola Woodham
Repulsion
Polanski’s architecture of choice is the late Victorian flat with its excesses of cornicing, cast iron radiators and sash windows.
Review by Nicola Woodham
Violent Virgin
For a film constantly switching between numerous complex sexual and socio-political positions it remains elegantly simple in its poetic rendering.
Nicola Woodham
Female Trouble
John Waters’s irreverent and splendid films challenged accepted notions of normality with a truly free spirit, including the black comedy atrocity that is Female Trouble.
Review by Nicola Woodham
I Know Where I’m Going!
At the heart of Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) is a dilemma between fakery and authenticity.
Review by Nicola Woodham
Somewhere in Palilula
We are invited into a world turned upside down in Silviu Purcărete’s carnivalesque triumph.
Review by Nicola Woodham