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Breaking The Waves

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 3 2023
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Director – Lars von Trier – 1996 – Denmark, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Italy, Germany, US – Cert. 18 – 160m ***** NSFW. A mentally vulnerable, young woman in an austere Scots religious community marries an outsider only for her husband to be severely injured working on an oil rig – out in a 4K […]

Tags absence, Adrian Rawlins, austere, bedridden, blow to the head, boat, bully, Calvinism, Calvinist, carnal, Christianity, church, community, Denmark, dialogue, disaster, elders, Emily Watson, erotic, erotic fantasy, erotic narrative, eroticism, Finland, France, Germany, God, health, hospital, industrial accident, injury, Italy, Jonathan Hackett, Katrin Cartlidge, kirk, Lars von Trier, marriage, matrimony, mental illness, mental instability, non-religious, Norway, nurse, oil rig, outsider, paralysis, pray, prayers, priest, prostitute, pub, reception, recovery, relationship, religious community, religious elders, Robby Müller, sailor, Scotland, spiritual, Stellan Skarsgard, suffering, Sweden, trauma, Udo Kier, US, wedding, wedding reception, whore, worker

Features Live Action Movies

The H Man
(Bijo
To Ekitai-ningen,
美女と液体人間)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 1 2021
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(Bijo
To Ekitai-ningen,
美女と液体人間)

***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1958 – Japan – Cert. X – 86m The H Man (lit. Beauty And The Liquid People) was scripted by Takashi Kimura, who, as Jasper Sharp notes in the accompanying booklet, wrote monster movies for Honda where the monsters were liquid, gas (The Human Vapor, 1960) and mutant man-mushrooms […]

Features Live Action Movies

Ishiro Honda
Double Feature
The H Man
(Bijo
To Ekitai-ningen,
美女と液体人間)
and
Battle
In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争)

The H Man ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1958 – Japan – Cert. X – 86m Battle in Outer Space ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Alongside the standalone release of Mothra (1961) comes a double bill of two more Toho science fiction movies directed by […]

Tags 1950s, alien, America, astronaut, Battle In Outer Space, bombardment, cinema building, Cinerama, Columbia, conference, Conquest Of Space, cops, cops and robbers, damsel in distress, detective, East Germany, Eiji Tsubaraya, Etsuko Shiraishi, Forbidden Planet, freezing, gags, gangster, gas, gender bias, George Pal, George Whitman, ghost, Godzilla, Golden Gate Bridge, Great Space War, India, inspector, Iran, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Jasper Sharp, Kaiju, Kyoko Anzai, landscape, life form, liquid, Matango, meteors, mind control, monster, moon, Mothra, mushroom, mutant, New York, nuclear tests, Philippines, police, police procedural, position of women, Puppetoons, ray, rover, Ryu Ikebe, sailor, San Francisco, science, science fiction, scientist, SF, Shinichi Sekizawa, ship, singer, song, space torpedoes, space travel, special effects, Takashi Kimura, The H Man, The H Men, The Human Vapor, The War Of The Worlds, This Island Earth, Toho, Tokyo, trauma, UFO, US, Warning From Space, weightlessness, Yoshio Tsuchiya, zero gravity

Animation Movies Shorts

Popeye The Sailor
Meets
Sindbad The Sailor

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 12 2020
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Meets
Sindbad The Sailor

Director – Dave Fleischer – 1936 – US – 16m – colour – Oscar nominated ***** Currently streaming on MUBI. A rare, two reeler, colour outing for the Fleischer brothers’ Popeye, this removes him from his usual urban environment to an island populated with fabulous monsters – the opening features snakes, lions, a dragon and […]

Tags 1930s, 2D animation, 3D animation, animation, fight, hamburger, island, legend, live action animation composite, monsters, MUBI, myth, sailor, spinach, US