The American Backyard (L’orto Americano) had its UK première 8 March at the Glasgow Film Festival for FrightFest Pupi Avati’s The American Backyard (L’orto Americano) opens with monochrome file footage of the Allied liberation of Rome amid cheering crowds, and of Allied tanks entering the streets of Bologna. “During the war, my mother cut my…
Television director Julius Berg’s feature debut The Owners begins first with gentle birdsong over the opening credits, and then with a slow pan across the calming English countryside – only for this idyll to be broken as DP David Ungaro’s camera settles on a red car parked in the field whose occupants are smoking up…
Straight On Till Morning first published by Little White Lies, as the 50th entry in my Cinema Pyschotronicum column “You bloody maniac, what do you think you’re doing!”, yells a woman (Katya Wyeth) at Peter (Shane Briant) as he almost runs her down with his convertible in the streets of Earl’s Court. Only minutes earlier, Peter,…