film

The films of Frederick Wiseman. Review by Alan Price. Why has it taken me so long to get round to watching the films of Frederick Wiseman? Well that’s because of their physical media inaccessibility and rare screenings in the cinema (those enticing clips on YouTube were never enough).

The Driver’s Seat. Review by Alan Price. On its release in 1974 “The Driver’s Seat” did badly commercially and critically.  Today it will probably fascinate, engage, repel, disturb, disarm and draw you into its own world. 

Twilight. Reviewed by Alan Price. Images of uncompromising nature, in the form of the forests, mountains and plains, surrounding the ex-mining village Ronabanya in northern Hungary, begin and end the extraordinary Twilight.

La Regle Du Jeu (Jean Renoir) 1939 – BFI Blu Ray 2023. Review by Alan Price. Since 1952 Renoir’s La Regle Du Jeu has stood high in Sight and Sound’s poll of the greatest films of all time.

Enys Men. Review by Alan Price. I doubt if 2023 will see a more visually beautiful British film than Enys Men.  It’s a remarkable advance on Bait and confirms Jenkins to be a powerful poetic filmmaker.

Hands Up / Identification Marks: None. Review by Alan Price. Here’s an artist constantly on the move: hitting out with anger, wit and veiled compassion.  I savour David Thomson’s summing up of this Polish maverick.  “Skolimowski is a director who stalks us like a fighter with stunning blows in either hand.”

EO. Directed by Jerzy Skolomowski. Review by Alan Price. EO is the story of the tribulations of a Sardinian donkey: very attractively grey with white spots round its melancholic eyes.