Yes first published by Movie Gazette, 27 June, 2005 Whether it is Mike Nichols’ tight focus on lovers’ first advances and final splits in Closer (2004), or John Curran’s exclusive concentration on the awkward middle years in We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2005), whether it is François Ozon’s use of five reverse-order episodes to deconstruct a lengthy marriage in 5×2 (2004),…
First published by Little White Lies Before his death in 1996, Barry Crump had written 24 semi-autobiographical comic novels drawn from a life spent chiefly in the New Zealand bush. Now Taika Waititi (Eagle Vs Shark, Boy) has adapted one of those novels, 1986’s Wild Pork and Watercress, for the big screen, and the results…
Possession first published by LWLies. If Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession was to prefigure Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire by six years in its use of a divided Berlin to symbolize all manner of dualities, then it would also find itself occupying a strange borderland between the arthouse and the grindhouse. On the one hand it is…