Rituals and cycles of grief: 10 picks from FrightFest 2021 first published as a preview piece for BFI Includes capsules of: Post Mortem, Slapface, Offseason, Nocturna: Side A – The Great Old Man’s Night, Hotel Poseidon, Dawn Breaks Behind The Eyes, The Unburied, Coming Home In The Dark, Ultrasound, Broadcast Signal Intrusion Grief is an…
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10 Great European Horror Films (2019)
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…
Heroic Bloodshed: Hong Kong, Hollywood and the Cycle of Influence
Heroic Bloodshed: Hong Kong, Hollywood and the Cycle of Influence first published by BFI in July 2019 The yesterdays of A Better Tomorrow Every origin story has a prequel. It was Rick Baker, editor of martial arts magazine Eastern Heroes, who in the late Eighties first identified in print an emergent genre for which he…
10 Great X-Certificate Films
10 Great X-Certificate Films first published by BFI, and occasioned by the BFI’s release of Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top (1959) in Dual Format (Blu-ray/DVD) Includes: Island of Lost Souls, La Ronde, Beat Girl, Psycho, Victim, A Clockwork Orange, The Devils, Last Tango in Paris, Alien, The Evil Dead In 1912, the British Board…