The Wednesday Debate – A 21st Century Canon
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Wednesday Debate. Every Wednesday we pose a question, inviting debate on a particular subject. This week, and spurred on by a contentious article in GQ magazine we thought we’d open the floor to naming a film that you would deem worthy of a hypothetical 21st century American film … Read more
Eastern Premise #7 – The Host
Jason Julier heads up a reduced Contributor Thursday, with two pieces. First up is his look at Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host. While The Host (2006) may not be the most original of monster movies or indeed a great film in its own right, it represents an important South Korean release. For only $11 million, which is … Read more
Eastern Premise #3 – Breathless
Jason Julier returns his latest article under the Eastern Premise banner, this week covering Yang Ik-june’s Breathless. After previously visiting films from the traditional powerhouses of China and Japan, I felt it only right that we take in an offering from South Korea the other major contributor in the Far East. As a country its … Read more
Read My Lips – The Antonym Amelie
Sur Mes Lévres, Jacques Audiard. 2001. Before A Prophet and The Beat That My Heart Skipped Jacques Audiard made waves with Read My Lips, the tale of a lonely partially deaf office worker and her relationship with an ex-con. Channeling Hitchcock’s Rear Window into a heist flick with a difference, Audiard’s film formed part of the … Read more
The Crimson Rivers
Les Rivières Pourpres, Mathieu Kassovitz, 2000. FRANCE The Crimson Rivers sees French fimmaker Mathieu Kassovitz deliberately producing a film in the vein of the archetypical Hollywood thriller. Out of the window goes logic, and in comes the slightest of plots, that enables a tale of twists and turns on a big scale to be told. The … Read more
Looking back at Memento
Christopher Nolan, 2000. US. Christopher Nolan’s chronologically reversed nightmare-psycho-drama really needs no introduction. Neo-noir of the highest order, Memento introduced Nolan to the world as a serious talent for the new millennium, and predated a body of work that has, in part, defined American blockbuster filmmaking in the 21st Century. Released in 2000, Memento formed … Read more
Chronofinchical #7 – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
David Fincher, 2008. US. Guest writer – Simon Kinnear – Kinnema. Fincher’s Oscar-hunting folly? Or the career Rubicon that sees Hollywood’s angry young man find a way to grow old without necessarily growing up? At the time of its release, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button appeared to be a startling change of pace for David Fincher, the man … Read more
Chronofinchical #6 – Zodiac
David Fincher, 2007. US. Guest writer – Paul Coughlan. A Note From The Editor; Paul is a regular contributor for the24thframe.co.uk, where he produces Paul’s Pithy Reviews. As the title suggests, Paul’s Pithy Reviews presents concise, to-the-point critique of a specific flick. Here, Paul takes a look at David Fincher’s half-decade in the making, labour … Read more
Chronofinchical #5 – Panic Room
David Fincher, 2002. US. Guest poster – Tim Popple – The 24th Frame. Like Star Trek films, there is a theory that David Fincher films follow a “one off, one on” pattern. Alien 3 nay, Se7en yea; The Game nay, Fight Club yea; Panic Room nay, Zodiac yea; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button nay, The … Read more
A Town Called Panic (2009)
A Town Called Panic, 2009. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar. Belgium. Animated plastic toys are the stars of the show here, with an inventive and madcap tale from the heart of Belgium. Famous in the UK for a series of advertisements for line of branded milk, the brains behind A Town Called Panic Aubier and Patar … Read more
