Noirish Posted by John Grant on October 30, 2019

Germany / 87 minutes / bw / Tobis-Klangfilm, Super-Film Dir: Géza von Bolváry Pr: Julius Haimann Scr: Walter Reisch Cine: Willi Goldberger Cast: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustav Gründgens, Max Gülstorff, Anton Pointner, Rosa Valetti, Fritz Odemar, Roda-Roda, Fritz Grünbaum, Paul Kemp, Fritz Alber   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on September 3, 2019

I came to this novel off the back of abandoning another. The book concerned — which shall here, as is my custom, remain anonymous — was only 165 pages long so, although it looked potentially a bit uninspiring, I reasoned I should surely be able to get through it easily...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on December 28, 2018

A strange little book, more like a longish novelette than even a novella. I’m still undecided as to whether I like it or not. Aged seven, Marina survives the car crash that kills her mom and dad, and, after extensive surgery, is shipped off to an orphanage: “My father died...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 6, 2018

It’s 1899 and Paris is readying itself for the Exposition Universelle of that year. Widowed lawyer James Norton arrives from Boston with strict instructions from his mother to extract his younger brother Raf from a potentially disastrous liaison with a — gasp! — Jewish actress, Ol   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 7, 2018

There are such a vast number of levels to appreciate Rear Window on and one of those is its impeccable use of sound as well as a score courtesy of Franz Waxman. In fact, it is quite easy to consider it as a film with a wholly diegetic soundtrack but it’s...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on September 4, 2017

David and Lisa Directed by Frank Perry Written by Eleanor Perry from a book by Theodore Isaac Rubin, MD 1962/USA Lisa and David Company/Vision Associates Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental Patients David and Lisa help each other recover from mental illness in this drama about a school for   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on January 23, 2017

Lisa and the Devil (1973) is certainly one of the weirder Mario Bava films, and with Bava that's saying something, given that the Italian auteur made horror pictures like Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and Baron Blood (1972). This darkly dreamy meditation on death struggled to find a distributor and ended   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on January 23, 2017

Lisa and the Devil (1973) is certainly one of the weirder Mario Bava films, and with Bava that's saying something, given that the Italian auteur made horror pictures like Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and Baron Blood (1972). This darkly dreamy meditation on death struggled to find a distributor and ended   read more