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Forty Guns
Philip Concannon on Samuel Fuller’s monochrome CinemaScope western, out on Bluray today from Masters of Cinema Samuel Fuller knew the importance of a good start. “If a story doesn’t give you a hard-on...
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2015
Philip Concannon reports from Bologna’s festival of rare, rediscovered and classic film. All That Heaven Allows At the height of summer, when cinemas are dominated by the noise of 3D blockbusters,...
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Orson Welles: One-Man Band
Philip Concannon reviews the latest (but not the last) volume of Simon Callow’s biography of Welles. In April of 1953, Orson Welles was invited by the BBC to record extracts from Walt Whitman’s A Song...
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Tricks of the Trade
One of our writers reviews a film with over one-hundred writers: Phil Concannon on Paul Verhoeven’s Tricked. Last October, The Hollywood Reporter published a story about the complications that...
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Ctrl+Alt+Action
Phil Concannon watches Late Shift and ponders the idea of the interactive movie and watching with your phone switched on. Remember Doom? No, not the video game, but the Dwayne Johnson-starring 2005...
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Disguises du Cinema
Philip Concannon on a new biography of Eric Rohmer that attempts to penetrate the secrets of the intensely private New Wave director. Who was Éric Rohmer? Well, for a start he wasn’t Éric Rohmer. The...
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2016
Philip Concannon went treasure hunting at Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, and here’s what he discovered. What makes a classic? Why do some films establish unassailable reputations as great...
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Silents Is Golden: The Complete Buster Keaton Shorts
Philip Concannon on a new Blu-ray edition of the complete Buster Keaton short films, on general release today. “Have you ever been in a movie, Buster?” he asked. When I told him I hadn’t, Roscoe said,...
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The Passion of the Kinski
We revisit Philip Concannon‘s piece focussing on the oh so unhinged Klaus Kinski The title of Klaus Kinski’s memoir is Kinski Uncut, but that’s not strictly accurate. When the actor first attempted to...
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Rewriting History with Lightning – DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation
MostlyFilm revisits Phil Concannon‘s enlightening piece on DW Griffith’s Birth Of A Nation “In the brief span of six years, between directing his first one-reeler in 1908 and The Birth of a Nation in...
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2017
Philip Concannon reports back from this year’s Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. No two experiences of Il Cinema Ritrovato will be the same. The festival’s vast and eclectic programme offers so...
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