Classic film of the week: Breathless
Film editor Oliver Weir discusses Breathless (or A bout du souffle), the 1960 French classic film, as it celebrates its 60th anniversary
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Film editor Oliver Weir discusses Breathless (or A bout du souffle), the 1960 French classic film, as it celebrates its 60th anniversary
Film editor Oliver Weir brings you David Fincher's greatest hits
Film editor Oliver Weir shows you how to see a great film, completely free. This week he watched L.A. Confidential, the gritty character study of three LAPD police officers
Film editor Oliver Weir looks back on the classic film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring about a monk's apprentice who lives on a pond in rural Korea
Film Editor Oliver Weir discusses the modern classic 'The Act of Killing' about the perpetrators of the 1965/66 Indonesian massacres which took the lives of over 1,000,000 communists, farmers, union members, intellectuals, and ethnic Chinese. Director Joshua Oppenheimer asks the perpetrators to recreate the heinous
Directed By: Luis Buñuel; Salvador Dalí Year of Release: 1929 My brief defence of abstract movies and surrealism is predicated on them genuinely seeking to capture a feeling or convey some truth. While this generally holds for surreal movies, there are of course exceptions. Perhaps the most famous of these
Why should we bother with surreal film? Film editor Oliver Weir argues the case for this often misunderstood subgenre by way of the first Lynchian masterpiece: Eraserhead
Film Editor Oliver Weir reviews Nick Rowland's debut feature film 'Calm With Horses' which is streaming on Netflix now
Film Editor Oliver Weir reviews the new Aaron Sorkin film 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' which is streaming now on Netflix
Film Editor Oliver Weir recommends that you use this QR code to watch Michael Cimino's 1978 Best Picture winner 'The Deer Hunter' for free
Thought of as “the first true horror film” by Roger Ebert, Caligari was a visual and thematic turn of pace for cinema at the time.
Until Saint Maud, I had not been aware as to just how unsettling a movie can be when religious possession is entirely ideological, self-driven, and delusional.