The Forgotten: Sticky Figments
David CairnsCraig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu is the first example I’ve seen of his brand of Bruce Conner-influenced experimental cut-up narratives.
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The Forgotten: Sparkles
David Cairns"This was never a fun place. Oh, they had a pool and everything, but it was never fun." The title 11 Harrowhouse (1974) has a grim sound to it, but it's a largely light movie, tipped over from heavy
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The Forgotten: The Red Sea Reels
David CairnsAbove: If you ever wondered what a pharaoh's nursery would look like... He was born Manó Kertész Kaminer in Hungary in 1886, began directing as Kertész Mihály, switched to
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The Forgotten: Transparent Lovers
David CairnsAccording to a title card at the end of Laissez-Passer, Bertrand Tavernier's fact-based drama of the French film industry in wartime, Maurice Tourneur hated the scripts of the few movies he made post
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The Forgotten: Oy!
David CairnsFollowing their invaluable collection Female Comedy Teams, Filmmuseum Munchen rescues another forgotten comedian from the ashes of history with two discs of Max Davidson Comedies, celebrating an ethnic
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The Forgotten: Tarr Nation
David CairnsDoes the world need another version of “The Postman Always Rings Twice”? Béla Tarr thinks so.
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The Forgotten: Here comes the rain again
David CairnsYves Allégret is part of that generation of French filmmakers it's no longer safe to ignore, despite their dismissal by Cahiers du Cinema. Continuing the melancholy strains of poetic realism into
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Edinburgh 2011. The Water of Life: Alexander Mackendrick's "Whisky Galore" (1949)
David Cairns"To the west, there is nothing, except America." Revived at Edinburgh Internbational Film Festival, Alexander Mackendrick's first film, Whisky Galore! (released in the USA as Tight Little Island) is
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Edinburgh 2011. Whatever We Want to Be: Marie Losier's "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye"
David CairnsMarie Losier's documentary tells the story of a couple. They happen to comprise Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, industrial music pioneer of the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and Lady Jaye Breyer
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The Forgotten: Hitler, Dead or Alive
David CairnsYou know about in-betweeners? They're the people who, in classical studio animation, draw the characters in between the key poses. The key poses are drawn by the animator. In-betweeners may be less experienced
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The Forgotten: Love's Young Dream
David CairnsWith the voyeuristic Four Nights with Anna and the visceral, brutal, beautiful and nearly wordless Essential Killing, Jerzy Skolimowski can be said to have made a comeback, but since when has he been
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The Forgotten: Home Alone
David CairnsRené Clemént's La baby sitter (1975) is a damned good twisty thriller, so I don't know why it has a lousy reputation. Its director belonged to that tricky post-war, pre-nouvelle vague