The Streetwalker
Walerian Borowczyk’s beautiful melancholic meditation on sex in a dirty, dirty world, with Sylvia Kristel and Joe Dallesandro.
Review by John Bleasdale
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Locke
Steven Knight’s second film as writer-director is a brilliant minimalist piece of cinéma de chambre.
Review by John Bleasdale
Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer’s first film in a decade is a beguiling nightmare take on the revenge of ineffable female glamour.
Review by John Bleasdale
Heaven’s Gate
Now that we have Michael Cimino’s re-mastered director’s cut, we can judge for ourselves the worth of this bizarre end to the American Western.
Review by John Bleasdale
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Klaus Kinski’s Dracula is a creature who is as much a victim of his own condition as anyone else.
Review by John Bleasdale
A Nightmare on Elm Street
As Halloween traditions go, one of the most favoured films to watch remains Wes Craven’s original 1984 horror slasher.
Review by John Bleasdale
Upstream Colour
It is one of the triumphs of the film that this genre-defying oddity is also quietly a brilliant and moving love story.
Review by John Bleasdale
Dark Star
Part of the pleasure of watching Carpenter’s student-film-turned-cult-classic is its synthy B-movie score, written by the director himself.
Review by John Bleasdale
All Is Lost
J. C. Chandor’s follow up to Margin Call is the kind of action film a young Hemingway might have directed.
Review by John Bleasdale
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Werner Herzog’s first film with Klaus Kinski incorporates a sense of ramshackle chaos and insanity.
Review by John Bleasdale