A new video essay on John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, made for our 20th Century Flicks screening of In the Mouth of Madness (1994).
Category: video essay
Haynes Manual
A new video essay on the work of Todd Haynes for our 20th Century Flicks screening of Far From Heaven (2002) at Cube Cinema on 19 November 2015.
A Spot of Bava
A new video essay on Mario Bava for our 20th Century Flicks screening of Blood and Black Lace [Sei donne per l’assassino] (1964) at Cube Cinema on 22 October 2015.
Borowczykiana
A new video essay on Walerian Borowczyk for our 20th Century Flicks screening of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Miss Osbourne (1981) at Cube Cinema on 17 September 2015.
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden)
A new video essay for 20th Century Flicks, on Wild Strawberries (1957) and the relationship between Ingmar Bergman and Victor Sjöström.
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975, USA)
A new video essay, this time on the work of Robert Altman for our April screening of Nashville (1975) at The Cube.
Essay Essay Essay
As you may or may not know, I have for the best part of four years been introducing films at The Cube cinema for one of their repertory slots called 20th Century Cube, a monthly night programmed in conjunction with Bristol’s legendary (yes) 20th Century Flicks video shop. Last May, as I was unable to make it to that month’s screening in person, we decided to embrace the miracle that is modern technology and compile a short narrated video introduction instead, thereby entering us into the burgeoning and somewhat uncharted creative sphere of video essay making. The experiment seemed to be a success – the visual aspect unsurprisingly proving a more enriching experience than that of that guy again standing up and delivering a monologue – and since then I have been assembling videos for almost all of our screenings.
By way of an apology for not having posted on here for a while then, I offer the fruits of my recent labours as some form of recompense, nearly all of which are now collected over at my YouTube channel. The early ones, predictably enough, are a bit rough and ready, but my more recent ones are getting a little more sophisticated as I find myself increasingly comfortable in navigating my way around the editing software. Anyway, here’s the ones which i’m most happy with: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Michael Mann’s Thief (1981) and Suzuki Seijun’s Branded to Kill (1967). More to follow, as and when they arrive…