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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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David Fincher: Top 5 films
Film editor Oliver Weir brings you David Fincher's greatest hits
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Free Film of the Week: L.A. Confidential
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
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Classic film of the week
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
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Classic Film of the Week: The Act of Killing
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
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Free Film of the Week: Un Chien Andalou
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
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A Short Defence of Surrealism
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
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On Fatherhood and Family ★★★★☆
Film Editor Oliver Weir reviews Nick Rowland's debut feature film 'Calm With Horses' which is streaming on Netflix now
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A captivating courtroom drama—The Trial of the Chicago 7 ★★★☆☆
Film Editor Oliver Weir reviews the new Aaron Sorkin film 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' which is streaming now on Netflix
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Free film of the week: Deer Hunter
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
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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
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.
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Saint Maud Review ★★★★☆
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.