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Overlooked: The First Time
We’re taking the opportunity this week to take a quick peek back at our 2013 themes and pick out some films that were serious contenders but didn’t get the full BSMC treatment. We can only write about...
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The First Time: The Story of the Kelly Gang
In 1880, Ned Kelly, the infamous Australian outlaw, was captured and hanged for the crime of murder. Twenty-six years later, The Story of the Kelly Gang detailing the life and times of legendary Ned...
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The First Time: De Düve (The Dove)
De Düve (The Dove) is one of the great lost shorts of Ingmar Bergman. Just kidding. Directed by Anthony Lover and actor George Coe (who also stars) this short is a spot-on send up of Bergman’s super...
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The First Time: Peel
Jane Campion’s first student film Peel (1982), made while she was studying at the Australian Film, TV & Radio school is a subtle, almost cruel film about a family that pulls over on the side of a...
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The First Time: Alabama: 2000 Light Years From Home
Wim Wenders, one of the fathers of New German Cinema, made several shorts in the late 60s. Alabama: 2000 Light Years from Home, from 1969, was Wenders’ first film shot on 35mm and his first...
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The First Time: Erotyk
Jerzy Skolimowski may be most familiar to you as the Eastern European gangster in almost every movie. He’s the one torturing Scarlett Johansson at the beginning of The Avengers and the charming but...
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Shadows: Mingus Ah-Um
After a week spent with Shadows, we can’t stop listening to Charles Mingus’ Ah-Um, which contains expanded versions of many of the songs the great jazz bassist and bandleader wrote for use as the...
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Big Shot: Shadows
Our first time: when we first encountered John Cassavetes’ Shadows: Shadows smashes you into its world without explanation. From the first scene, rock and roll blaring over the soundtrack as we watch...
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Shadows: City Livin’
Shadows has a serious sense of place. New York is home and Cassavetes treats the city just like you treat a worn-in couch – kick off your shoes and relax. There’s no showing off, there’s no...
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Shadows: Who Owns Cassavetes?
The version of Shadows we are discussing this week is not the only version out there. Cassavetes originally premiered Shadows at Amos Vogel’s Cinema 16 in 1957 but was unhappy with the audience’s...
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Shadows: Self-Defense Against Creeping Meatballism
The opening credits of Shadows, after shouting out the cast and Charles Mingus (whose music could well be considered a character in the film), includes this mystery: “Presented by Jean Shepherd’s...
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