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Things I Read Off the Screen in "Rotten to the Core"
Really enjoyed this — a genuinely bitter, genuinely funny comedy from the Boulting Brothers, which crosses the stylistic approach of their 60’s satires (PRIVATE’S PROGRESS, I’M… more →
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Things I Read Off the Screen in "Rotten to the Core"
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dcairns wrote 2 weeks ago: Really enjoyed this — a genuinely bitter, genuinely funny comedy from the Boulting Brothers, w … more →
Towers of London
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dcairns wrote 4 months ago: A disrespectful obit. Regular Shadowplayer Paul Duane alerts me to the demise of noted B-movie god a … more →
Hope you like Jam' Inn too...
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dcairns wrote 6 months ago: ‘It is a wretched affair.’ Such was Daphne du Maurier’s verdict on JAMAICA INN, wh … more →
Zee and Co.
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dcairns wrote 7 months ago: James Mason is Hendrik van der Zee, the Fying Dutchman, in Albert Lewin’s PANDORA AND THE FLYI … more →
A. Hall
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dcairns wrote 7 months ago: “8 DEC. A HALL. RM.” Not the Albert Hall who plays the Chief in APOCALYPSE NOW, whose na … more →
Jack Cardiff
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dcairns wrote 8 months ago: RIP Jack Cardiff. The above is the scene in BLACK NARCISSUS where Cardiff, perhaps Britain’s … more →
Going Postal
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dcairns wrote 8 months ago: The explosive opening of BULLDOG DRUMMOND’S BRIDE (perhaps an influence on the beginning of Te … more →
The Winner Is
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dcairns wrote 10 months ago: I produced this piece for a magazine, as part of a “memorable cinema experience” thing t … more →
The Mr "A" Messages
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dcairns wrote 10 months ago: So, back in December I stuck a clip on YouTube of the title sequence of Tony Richardson’s Marg … more →
Raking over the Ashes
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dcairns wrote 10 months ago: Art, which we can barely see, by Felix Topolski, creating a modern version of 18th century cartoons. … more →
Hello, Sailor
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dcairns wrote 11 months ago: I’ve just written a piece on title sequences for The Believer magazine, so this kind of thing … more →
Vampir
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Now there’s a bad film – Jesus Franco’s CONTE DRACULA, scripted and produced by H … more →
BANG BANG
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: “The filthiest man I ever met!” This was my late friend, assistant director Lawrie Knigh … more →
Intertitle of the Week
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: From Anthony Asquith’s tour-de-force of late silent cinema, A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR. Early Asqui … more →
The Key of Songs
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: This is the ending of Marcel Carné’s JULIETTE, OU LA CLEF DES SONGES. Don’t watch it if … more →
Sexy Night Spots of London #1
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: The Hip Bath Club. “Mickey [Powell] was always very keen on Vernon Sewell, which I could never … more →
Finally du Jour
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: At last, the day after Duvivier’s birthday, I get around to writing something substantial, or … more →
Heart to Art
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: A couple hangers – Fiona wanted me to point out that the pounding heartbeat we hear as Jekyll … more →
Giving and Receiving
dcairns wrote 1 year ago: A look of madness… Just calculated that I had mailed or at least packed 30 discs in the Great … more →
