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 [...]
Film of the Day – Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog, 1987)
I was watching Doctor Zhivago on telly with my mother one Christmas, the very time of year that innumerable family units across the country settle down to watch that grandoise, historical romance for the umpteenth time. Despite the fact that she had seen it many (many, many) times before, my mum had been previously [...]
Ode to Moviedrome
Or: How I learned to love incredibly strange films cos my mum allowed me to have a TV in my bedroom I don’t know about you, but at my school there was an unofficial clique, a group of kids who were allowed to watch television long past what should have [...]