Ric Rawlins’ Wild Swimmers opens on the last day of semester at the University of Bath, with a lecturer (Kirris Riviere) setting his students an assignment for the summer vacation. “I want you to go out there and find your own story,” he tells them. “I don’t care if it’s a nature reserve that’s about to…
Mean Creek first published by Movie Gazette, 6 April 2005 From Mark Twain’s classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) to films as varied as John Huston’s The African Queen (1951), Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter (1955), John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) and Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (1982),…
Carnival of Souls first published by EyeforFilm Carnival Of Souls may open with that most conventional of scenes from the movies of the Fifties/Sixties, a drag race, but there is something not quite right, something jarring, in the way that the sequence draws the viewer right into the middle of the action. At a set of…