X FILMS
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker documents the making of 10 films that Alex Cox directed between 1978 and 2008.
Review by Alex Fitch
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WATCHMEN
While Watchmen hasn’t received the same amount of publicity as last year’s The Dark Knight, it has generated a level of anticipation unprecedented for comic book adaptations in recent years. After all, we’re talking about the ‘Citizen Kane of graphic novels’.
Review by Alex Fitch
Double Take: GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen
The BFI has just released a DVD collection of short films by experimental British filmmaker Jeff Keen. To review a selection of these films, Alex Fitch is joined by Tania Glyde and (belatedly) Kim Morgan, former presenters of Midnight Sex Talk, a frank programme on all aspects of sexuality that ran for two years on Resonance FM.
HANSEL AND GRETEL
This South Korean adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale recasts the children as the villains of the story, making them the cake suppliers who dispose of unwary strangers unlucky enough to chance upon their home in the forest.
Review by Alex Fitch
WESTWORLD
In the near future, a theme park has been created which lets visitors experience the past by interacting with living, breathing creatures. However, something goes wrong and before long the exhibits start killing the guests…
Review by Alex Fitch
LOGAN’S RUN
The most relentlessly 70s of all 70s genre movies, Logan’s Run cast some of the most iconic actors of that decade – York, Agutter, Fawcett, Ustinov – in a sci-fi fable that swings between kitsch and the dystopian fallout of the summer of love.
Review by Alex Fitch
DEATH RACE
Stripping away everything from the original Death Race 2000 apart from the character names and basic plot, Anderson’s Death Race is a slick, polished B-movie that technically is a better film than the original, but lacks the shock value, innovation and critical edge of its predecessor.
Review by Alex Fitch
THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME
From the writer of Paprika comes the finest Japanese animé released in the UK so far this year.
Review by Alex Fitch
Double Take: Dark City
Rarely seen but surprisingly influential, Dark City is a 1940s-style murder mystery set in an eerie futuristic city where it is perennially night and mysterious black-clad Strangers control the lives of the inhabitants. It has recently been released on DVD and Blu-ray disc in the form of a new ‘director’s cut’.
Review by Alex Fitch and Tom Humberstone
MAN ON WIRE
Now that enough time has passed for movies about the World Trade Centre to be tinged with nostalgia rather than hysteria or pathos, the first post-post-9/11 movie is an intriguing docu-drama about high-wire walker Philippe Petit, who staged one of the most outrageous stunts in modern urban history.
Review by Alex Fitch