Reel Britannia first published by VODzilla.co The word ‘cinema’ comes from the Ancient Greek for ‘movement’. This is because cinema is the domain of the moving image – but in his latest documentary on cinema, writer/director Jon Spira (Elstree 1976, 2015; Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Fall of the Great British Stuntman, 2021) is also…
Longer version of piece published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 All cults need their icons (the kitschier the better), and so Jon Spira’s Elstree 1976 – a talking-heads documentary based around that ultimate world-building, life-changing cult movie, 1977’s Star Wars (and, to a…