On THE STATE OF THINGS, STRANGER THAN PARADISE and THE TERRITORY
In answer to the query “What do Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Roger Corman, Raul Ruiz, Jon Jost, the district of Sintra and the city of Lisbon have in common?”
ORGAN
Mutiliation, mutation and spilled bodily fluids aplenty: a 1990s Asian cult classic!
JOHNNY MNEMONIC
A film that was forecast to be a revolutionary melding of cyberpunk and mainstream sensibilities, but is best viewed nowadays as a dry run for THE MATRIX
NORTH
…and here’s the (very) bad.
Udo Kier: 1944-2025
Celebrating an actor who “never learned to act” and functioned equally well in camp and serious drama
THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
A terrifically entertaining Hollywood memoir by novelist/screenwriter/director Nicholas Meyer
TREMORS
One of the stand-out horror fests of the nineties
BURNING PARADISE
For me, this “gothic hell prison movie” will always be the most satisfying film directed by Hong Kong’s late Ringo Lam (1955-2018)
COBB
A failed, but quite interesting, biopic on the late baseball star, and trigger-happy nut, Ty Cobb
JOHNNY
The first Canadian film lensed according to the dictates of the Lars von Trier-Thomas Winterberg created Dogma 95 manifesto