Dir. David Cronenberg. Run Time: 87 mins. MA15+ David Cronenber’s high-camp rumination on sex, violence, politics, and media-culture is a strange journey through the realms of low-sci-fi, high-horror, gross-out, and a myriad of other sensational modes of film making. James Woods somewhat woodenly plays Max Renn, a sleazy cable television station manager who unwittingly becomes…
Dir. Bob Fosse Run Time: 123 mins. M15+ (U.S Release Poster) Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical surreal musical comedy might be one of the most artistically intelligent musical movies I’ve seen in a while. Its meta-tale of the slow deconstruction of a man and his ego takes the quick cut aesthetic of Fosse’s earlier expressionist masterpiece Cabaret…
aA recent discovery of mine while going about my daily activities was the existence of posters of movies I know for audiences abroad. Perhaps the most interesting of the cultural shifts exhibited in these advertising materials is that between the United States release posters and those of Poland. Here are just some fabulous examples of…
Dir. Ben Sharpsteen (Supervising) Run Time: 64 mins G As a Disney classic made on the cheap to recoup the losses after Fantasia (1940) you can’t fault this film for its charm. It tells the story of the mute baby elephant Dumbo as he goes through a series of trials and humiliations before learning to…
Lachlan J. Faces The World 