Posts Tagged ‘CPH PIX film festival’

2011 – That was the year that was

2011 – That was the year that was
In an attempt to provide an even better overview of the preceding 12 months than I did last year I have enlisted the help of a website that lists every single UK cinema release by date and have tried to check any releases that were moved around or failed to appear. This is an attempt [...]
December 29th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Spotlight on the CPH PIX Film Festival 2011

Spotlight on the CPH PIX Film Festival 2011
The annual CPH PIX film festival is a young festival, formed just four years ago from the melting together of two previous film festivals, the Night Film Festival and the Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF). 170 movies are crammed into the space of 2½ weeks in late April, overlapping with...
July 14th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

On the Silver Globe (1987)

On the Silver Globe (1987)
*** Warning: ‘Ere be spoliers *** If you think of Soviet era east-European science fiction movies as being impenetrably weird and obscurely (obtusely?) intellectual, then Andrzej Zulawski’s On the Silver Globe is going to be exactly what you expect. The movie started production in 1975 on an...
July 13th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Man Who Thought Life (1969)

The Man Who Thought Life (1969)
The Man Who Thought Life is something of a legend in Danish cinema, particularly among science fiction fans. It has never been released on DVD (nor, as far as I know, on VHS), and was only ever shown on TV once or twice, if that. Once in a blue moon, however, it appears for special [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Silent Souls (2010)

Silent Souls (2010)
The setting is a current-day rural area near Nizhny Novgorod, on the Volga river. The people here descend from an ancient native culture of river worshippers to whom water is sacred. Few people remember the old ways anymore, but to the older generations some of the ancient rites still hold meaning. Miron...
June 22nd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

La femme publique (1984)

La femme publique (1984)
The movie opens with a strange, violent and stylized bar brawl. We find out in short order that this is actually a scene being imagined and played out by actors at a rehearsal, centering on the novice actress/model Ethel (attractive Valérie Kaprisky), who is “the public woman” of the title....
June 14th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Gladiators (1969)

The Gladiators (1969)
When someone says “dead serious”, I say “Peter Watkins”. He does scathing and political social realism, sometimes with a sci-fi angle. One of his most well-known works is The War Game (1965), to which The Gladiators (a.k.a. The Peace Game) is a sort of stand-alone sequel. It is a future where...
June 14th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Housemaid 1960 & 2010

The Housemaid 1960 & 2010
This is a double review of the Korean 1960 movie The Housemaid and its 2010 remake. The Housemaid (1960) The Housemaid (which is in black and white) tells the story of a fairly well-to-do family consisting of a music teacher/composer, his wife and two children. Their lifestyle is highly Westernized,...
May 11th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

13 Assassins (2010)

13 Assassins (2010)
Japan’s other great movie director besides Kurosawa is Takashi Miike. Born in 1960, he’s already got more than 80 directorial credits under his belt since the early ‘90s, producing movies at a furious rate. His works are extremely different and span every imaginable genre, from children’s movies...
May 5th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)

Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
As with Snakes on a Plane, the title for Hobo With a Shotgun also gives you the plot. But this is not just about a hobo running amok with a shotgun. It’s a full-fledged grindhouse feature, and the very movie behind the trailer of the same name in the 2007 Grindhouse double-bill by Tarantino and [...]
May 1st, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
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