DVD Review: Medium Cool (1969)

It’s interesting that Criterion has released Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool (1969) so soon after Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer (1962). The two films, separated by an ocean, by different cultures and by almost a decade, represent two distinct approaches to the same essential problem: is it possible for film to capture […]

Blasts from the past

The Hughes Brothers’ Menace II Society (1993):
Criterion Blu-ray review

Nigel Kneale & British genre television

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Hangover Square and the mysteries of adaptation

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