‘We Want the Finest Films Known To Humanity’ – Handmade Films 1978-2013. By Simon Thompson. Handmade Films was a British filmmaking Icarus, a studio which achieved so much so quickly, but burnt ...
Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part Two. By Simon Thompson. Part One here. A seasoned auteur Melville’s hard-boiled era would begin in earnest with his movie Le deuxième souffle ...
Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part One. By Simon Thompson. Jean Pierre Melville is a director with a career that is simultaneously both easy and difficult to categorise at the s...
William Friedkin (1935-2023) Career Retrospective. By Simon Thompson. William Friedkin was one of the great iconoclasts in the history of American filmmaking, a director for whom the term “mad lad” wo...
Ariel Back to Buenos Aires Review. By Simon Thompson Alison Murray’s Ariel Back to Buenos Aires is a Pedro Almodóvar- like tale which balances being a family drama alongside being a love-letter to the...