Posts Tagged: Richard Dyer
Reel Ale Film Club: Victim
Last week’s Reel Ale Film Club celebrated pastel colours, youthful crooning and Cliff Richard in high-waisted trousers. This week sees a return to black and white and a turn to more controversial subject matter in Basil Dearden’s Victim (1961), starring
Reel Ale Film Club: Victim
Last week’s Reel Ale Film Club celebrated pastel colours, youthful crooning and Cliff Richard in high-waisted trousers. This week sees a return to black and white and a turn to more controversial subject matter in Basil Dearden’s Victim (1961), starring
The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli’s exploration of Hollywood’s wounded artists in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is an immensely enjoyable piece of myth-making in line with the film industry’s troubled years in the early 1950s. The film’s use of a multiple-perspective narrative,
The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli’s exploration of Hollywood’s wounded artists in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is an immensely enjoyable piece of myth-making in line with the film industry’s troubled years in the early 1950s. The film’s use of a multiple-perspective narrative,
Kenneth Anger and the Camp Aesthetic
[Camp] is…always, at whatever cost, a cry against conformity, a shriek against boredom, a testament to ‘the potential uniqueness of each of us and our rights to that uniqueness.’ – George Melly This will be fun. Watch Kenneth Anger’s underground
Kenneth Anger and the Camp Aesthetic
[Camp] is…always, at whatever cost, a cry against conformity, a shriek against boredom, a testament to ‘the potential uniqueness of each of us and our rights to that uniqueness.’ – George Melly This will be fun. Watch Kenneth Anger’s underground
