Days Are Numbers Film Night No. 1 – Leningrad Cowboys Go America!
Howdy! I trust you’re going to the first-ever Days Are Numbers film night (on the 23rd of February at The Montpelier in Peckham, in case you didn’t know)? You are!? Jolly good! And would you like to know a little bit more about the film we’re showing that night? You [...]
Film of the Day – The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)
Not so long ago we had a bit of a chat about the retroactively established 70s British subgenre folk-horror, didn’t we; listing the likes of The Wicker Man, Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and Tam-Lin as some of the more notable efforts that potentially make up this somewhat loosely defined category… [...]
Rubbish Film of the Day – (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
Mark Cousins’ cousin Les Cousins – Daysarenumbers’ resident guttersnipe – casts a beady, embittered eye over another film that’s got right on his tits… Really Serious Voiceover-bro: “You should know up front, this is not a love story.” Me: “Yes it fucking well is!” It is a sodding love story though, [...]
Film of the Day – The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, 1966)
Now before we begin, I don’t want to hear any giggling from the back, and I certainly won’t entertain any demands to investigate my download history… But, in all serious, it does continue to surprise me that more films haven’t been made about the subject of pornography. As an industry it’s always struck [...]
Daysarenumbers presents: Leningrad Cowboys Go America! 23/02/12 @ The Montpelier in Peckham
Yes, indeed! Days Are Numbers are proud to announce that we’ll be screening Finnish cult supremo Aki Kaurismaki’s bizarre rock ‘n’ roll road movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America! for our inaugral film night at the Montpelier in Peckham on Thursday the 23rd of February!!! There will also be lots of music [...]
Days Are Numbers Film Night: 23/02/12 @ The Montpelier in Peckham
That’s right, folks. Exciting news… Days Are Numbers will be hosting their very first film night on the 23rd of February 2012 at The Montpelier in Peckham. We can’t yet reveal exactly what film we’re going to show, but it’s bound to be something pretty unmissable, and there’ll be music, [...]
Devil in Disguise: Lovely Jon’s Oliver Reed Top Five
To accompany Alan’s wonderful Ken Russell piece, we thought we’d get our good friend Lovely Jon to select his five favourite Oliver Reed films. As one of Uncle Ken’s most celebrated collaborators, the great man doesn’t really need an introduction but here’s LJ with a couple of lines… [...]
Director of the Month: Ken Russell
Hello and welcome to Director of the Month, your cut-out-and-keep guide to the very finest auteurs in filmland… This Month: Ken Russell Nationality: English D.O.B: 03/07/1927 Died: 27/11/2011 Years active: 1964 – 2002 Number of films (as director): 19 Do say: “You are quite possibly the most easily identifiable and wildly [...]
Spooky Film of the Day – Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
It took me a long, long time to get round to watching Death Proof, and to be honest with you, that was probably largely down to the fact that I haven’t been overly impressed with the general output of Quentin Tarantino in this century… Don’t get me wrong, both Kill [...]
Spooky Film of the Day – Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel, 1971)
Vampires, eh? Those guys will never go out of fashion, it seems. Surely the man on the street’s bogeyman of choice, even if they are more likely to be found sulking in their bedrooms a la the Twilight kids or getting their heads kicked in by Wesley Snipes these days… [...]