Bradlands
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Auteurists under cover: when acclaimed filmmakers take on TV assignments
Long before Twin Peaks, signature directors from John Ford to David Cronenberg, Samuel Fuller to Jerry Lewis, have dabbled with small-screen jobs for hire. The results can be fascinating, writes Brad Stevens.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
Grace Elliott: a woman filming a woman interviewing a man
A mysterious female director created these short and surprising publicity segments in the early 1930s. What else could she have done on a larger canvas, asks Brad Stevens.
Thursday 11 October 2018 -
Ulu Grosbard’s Georgia: a melodrama as mysterious as real life
Could the ultimate puzzle film be one that can’t be solved, asks Brad Stevens. Such as this little-seen 1995 movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, which has a perplexing question at its core?
Tuesday 14 August 2018 -
The Freudian revenge of David Lean’s Madeleine
David Lean’s much maligned adaptation of a true-life 19th-century murder case, with Ann Todd as a woman accused of poisoning her lover, is a slippery melodrama whose upper-class trappings mask a subversive rape-revenge core, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 11 July 2018 -
The haunted house of patriarchy: how The Entity subverts mainstream horror films
The nightmare to E.T.’s dream of a home-invading paranormal father figure, Sidney J. Furie’s radical 1982 horror film The Entity connects contemporary articulations of abusive, gaslighting patriarchy with the Gothic tradition’s ambiguous explorations of Evil, says Brad Stevens.
Monday 11 June 2018 -
Delusional Albion: how foreign directors saw Swinging 60s Britain
From Repulsion to Blowup and beyond, 1960s movies made in Britain by foreign directors had something unsettling to tell us about a nation in flux – a warning that may yet reflect on our Brexit era, writes Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 24 April 2018 -
Real men don’t read? In a Lonely Place and the self-loathing screenwriter
In Nicholas Ray’s classic film noir, Bogie plays a writer with an aversion to opening a book. Is this the reductio ad absurdum of macho masculinity, asks Brad Stevens?
Wednesday 28 March 2018 -
Mirrors to the abyss: the radical doubling of Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake
The first series of Jane Campion’s New Zealand crime drama showcases her fullest, feminist creative use of reflections, duplicates and doppelgängers, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 28 February 2018 -
How Twin Peaks stretches television into the unknown
The original Twin Peaks changed both series television and David Lynch’s own artistic outlook. Whatever we term the series’ recent extension, it surely shows that distinctions of format are only as important as we expect them to be, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 31 January 2018 -
One-offs and what-ifs: single-film directors’ rich roads to nowhere
How can we make sense of a filmmaker’s career when it is over as soon as it begins? Brad Stevens examines the ‘lost moments’ that foretell their directors’ own withdrawal from the role.
Monday 4 December 2017
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