10 Great European Horror Films first published by BFI, Nov 2019 Includes capsules of: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Vampyr; The White Reindeer; Eyes Without A Face; Who Can Kill A Child?; Possession; Cemetery Man; Let The Right One In; Amer; Berberian Sound Studio Europe was the birthplace not just of cinema, but also of…
Gender Divide in Diptych: Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy first published (in a shorter version) in July 2019 by Senses of Cinema, and also in the book Strickland (2019, Queensland Film Festival) The Berberian Sound Studio – a labyrinthine post-production complex in 1970s Italy to which all the events of Berberian Sound Studio are restricted…
Berberian Sound Studio at the Donmar Warehouse first published by Little White Lies Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio (2012) is as cinematic – metacinematic, even – as films come. It depends on a particularised grammar of pure cinema (disorienting edits, the collapsing of different spatiotemporal interiors, even dubbing and subtitles) to communicate its mannered story about…
Review of this extraordinary short neo-giallo first published on EyeforFilm. “I have sinned again… You cannot stop me. You need me. We need to see them suffer.” So says the heavy-breathing voice down the phone line to an ageing, bespectacled man (Stephen M Gilbert) who records the words on a small cassette player so he…