Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "experimental film"

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Powaqqatsi **** (1988, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 10,148

Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]

Aug, 08

Bait *** (2019, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd, Giles King) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Mark Jenkin’s Bait (2019) is a bold independent experimental film focusing on a brother brother conflict and the clash between tourism and the old fishing boat values down old Cornwall way. It runs […]

Aug, 25

À Propos de Nice ***** (1930, director Jean Vigo) – Classic Movie Review 8657

Jean Vigo’s deservedly acclaimed 1929 avant-garde ‘point-of-view’ documentary A Propos de Nice satirises the difference between the rich tourists promenading in the sun on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on the French Cote d’Azur […]

Jun, 29

The Last of England **** (1987, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, ‘Spring’ Mark Adley) – Classic Movie Review 6496

Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]

Dec, 30

Hardcore Henry **** (2015, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Tim Roth) – Movie Review

Breathtaking, breathless, bizarre guilty pleasure Hardcore Henry will gross out many people and needs to come with a health warning. And here it is. It is an extremely violent movie with non-stop bloody brutal violence and […]

Apr, 10

Le Testament d’Orphée [Testament of Orpheus] **** (1959, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Yul Brynner, Jean Marais, Claudine Auger) – Classic Movie Review 2985

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s 1959 last film and movie final testament takes up where his first film Le Sang d’un Poète [Blood of a Poet] (1931) and arguably his most famous film Orphée (1950) left off. […]

Oct, 17

Last Year at Marienbad [L’année dernière à Marienbad] **** (1961, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff) – Classic Movie Review 2631

Director Alain Resnais’s infamous, impenetrable 1961 mystery movie has the coolly gorgeous and impressively enigmatic Delphine Seyrig wandering about elegantly in a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel. Last Year at Marienbad is all way too arty and […]

Jun, 22

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