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April 26, 2012 Il Boom

By Neil Hargreaves There is a scene in Vittorio De Sica’s Il Boom where a number of well-to-do Italians dance to a band who are performing the tackier sort of early 60s pop song. The lyrics are sung in English. That same quality of a cheap import is imbued in the title of the film. [...]

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April 23, 2012 La Grande Illusion

By Indy Datta La Grande Illusion – which tells the story of a motley band of French POWs in captivity and on the run during the First World War – was Jean Renoir’s first major commercial success. In the early years of his career (after a short-lived flirtation with the idea of becoming a ceramicist) [...]

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March 13, 2012 If My Calculations Are Correct, Part Four

by Ricky Young. In this fourth and final part of MostlyFilm’s lookback at the 1983 BBC2 sci-fi season – of which you can read parts one, two and three by simply ‘clicking’ – we are left with what I was previously happy to call the dregs. A harsh word, I know, but I’ll qualify that [...]

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November 28, 2011 If My Calculations Are Correct

Part one of a four-part piece, by Ricky Young Starting on 11th January 1983, and running over 15 weeks, BBC2 ran a branded season of sci-fi films on Tuesday evenings – crucially, for those who were 10 years old at the time, in that all-important between-tea-and-bedtime slot. Alerted to this by my father, who was [...]

October 6, 2011 A Wax Museum With a Pulse

Indy Datta revisits Pulp Fiction 1. In a clever postmodern/wanky touch, this post will be presented out of chronological order. 2. Recently, I attended a screening of Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 breakthrough movie at the Soho Square offices of the British Board of Film Classification. Before the film, Craig Lapper, senior examiner at the board, told [...]

September 27, 2011 Unleash Your Enthusiasm!

By Ron Swanson Here at Mostly Film, we love American TV, but I hate the fact that rubbish like Two and a Half Men is stuffed down your throats for hours a day in the UK while 30 Rock and The Office are left to flounder in their one half-hour spot on Comedy Central. Still, [...]

September 26, 2011 Let’s Play Hitler!

Niall Anderson looks at ten cinematic Hitlers and the careers of the men who played him, working out what their changing portrayals say about the rest of us.

July 1, 2011 Mostly Links – 1 July 2011

BY NIALL ANDERSON Mostly Film spent last weekend at Glastonbury. Every year, millions of pixels are indiscriminately slaughtered to convince the public that it’s the best fun they never had. We will refrain. Let it just be said that your life will be made briefly but appreciably better if you watch Janelle Monáe’s astonishing performance [...]

May 17, 2011 Kenji Mizoguchi – Japan’s Forgotten Master

by Philip Concannon September 10th 2011 will mark the 60th anniversary of an auspicious event in the history of world cinema. On that date in 1951 Rashomon won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, introducing western audiences to not only Akira Kurosawa but to the riches of Japanese cinema in general. Rashomon went [...]

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May 11, 2011 Auto da Fé: The long life of Taxi Driver

by Niall Anderson When we talk about iconic character shots in film, we’re generally talking about shots where something clever and technical happens. The simultaneous track-back and zoom when Roy Scheider sees Jaws at the beach. The puff of steam from the waiting train as Marilyn Monroe is revealed in Some Like It Hot. The [...]

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