Tag: Cinema
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by Isabelle Cocozza Lost Reels, founded and run by Geoffrey Badger, hosted an all dayer at The Cinema Museum in September, named Women on the Edge. The programme contained a selection of sought after 35mm celluloid rarities that feature women in precarious life circumstances or mental states. The films selected were Micheal Winterbottom’s Butterfly Kiss…
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By Isabelle Cocozza Advertorial for Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream ‘Giallo’ was an Italian horror film subgenre or movement beginning in the 1960’s and fizzling out around the late 1980’s. It is characterised by eccentric murder-mystery plots featuring leather-gloved, razor wielding killers and their beautiful victims, drenched in neon lighting and accompanied by…
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By Josh Coates Images courtesy of Bruno Castro About a year ago, the three Button Mashers sat around and discussed what makes a cinema fun. Being big fans of going it alone to the cinema, we wondered about how best to turn the act of seeing a movie on the big screen into a really…
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Our first screening has arrived. In collaboration with the incredible distributor and physical media purveyor Vinegar Syndrome, Culture Film Publication is presenting erotic horror/exploitation hidden gem The Black Room (1982) – incredibly rarely ever screened since its release. It is directed by Elly Kenner and Norman Thaddeus Vane, and stars Stephen Knight, Cassandra Gava, Jimmy…
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By Ros Tibbs A powerhouse in B-movies, cult cinema and direct-to-video sci-fi, action flicks, filmmaker Albert Pyun has has 40 eccentric and dazzling features listed in his credits, beginning with his director debut The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and ending with 2017’s Interstellar Civil War, released five years before his passing. Pyun’s cinematic…
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by Isabelle Cocozza Cinema Rediscovered is a festival consisting of only repertory cinema, including premieres of recently restored and recut films or rare films rediscovered through its programming strands. I was lucky enough to attend and review the films I caught over the 5 day festival, including fun features from Josie and the Pussycats (2001)…
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by Amal Brepotra If you’re anything of a cult film enthusiast, then Salome is a name you’ve probably heard of. If it isn’t, then it most certainly will be soon enough. From Alla Nazimova’s and Charles Bryant’s 1922 silent reimaging to Oscar Wilde’s once-forbidden play, the biblical figure of Salome has fledged across cinema reimagings…
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by Ros Tibbs Pushing transgressive, Queer, anti-establishment and punk art into the filmic spotlight, legendary cult director John Waters proved his status as a culturally significant filmmaker when he kicked off the 1970s decade with 1970’s Multiple Maniacs, an independent black-comedy starring the director’s muses Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey,…
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by Nathan Brown Bloodsuckers, flesheaters and nymphomaniacs: horror cinema has long traded on a primal fear of uncontained female appetites. Afterall, in a world where women’s desire for food, sex and capital has been fiercely policed by patriarchal social norms, what could be scarier than a hungry woman? – Dundead Film Festival I first attended…
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On a sunny day in late June, I went to visit The Nickel, a 37-seater micro cinema, media shop and basement bar in the heart of Farringdon. Run by filmmaker and cult film fanatic Dominic Hicks, The Nickel screens grimy underground oddities and essential cult classics alike on 16mm film, VHS and digital every week.…
