Joe

Joe (1970)

Joe first published by Film4, Jan 2009 – here slightly updated As wide-eyed New Yorker Melissa Compton walks from her bourgeois parents’ swanky apartment to the altogether less salubrious Greenwich Village abode of her drug-dealing boyfriend Frank Russo (Patrick McDermott), a title sequence filters her journey through the red, white and blue of the US…

The Hunger

The Hunger (1983)

The Hunger on-stage introduction for the Ultimate Picture Palace’s Blood & Celluloid: Vampire Film Festival, 15 Oct 2022 In the late Seventies and early Eighties, there was a new movement identifiable in British cinema: the rise of the adman director. For filmmakers like Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Alan Parker, Ridley Scott and his younger brother…