Author Celluloid Liberation Front

to Fidel, until forever... A sense of self-referential irrelevance may assail the consummate festival-goer inhabiting a world of films few outside the festival circuit will ever even hear of. The opposite felt...

“I don’t initiate violence, I retaliate.” –Chuck Norris Plot Synopsis (major spoiler alert): Jim (Dominic Purcell) is the kind of working class dude New York used to be inhabited by before his ilk was driven ...

Understanding how people can be manipulated through emotions, for example, is as useful for those who wish to avoid this as it is for those who wish to practice it. – Sun Tzu in The Art of War The tyranny of f...

“Representation is a denial of participation” – Muammar Gaddafi in The Green Book Used to the soothing distraction film festivals offer in the form of anal-retentive social events and cultural bulimia, to enc...

Jacopetti’s fame will always be tied to the phenomenal success of Mondo Cane; a ground breaking film in more ways than could have been anticipated at the time.

In light of Sidney Lumet’s recent passing away, this article pays tribute to his powerful 1964 dramatised study of a post-Holocaust survivor living a life of quite desperation in Harlem.

As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their cars, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at th...

Often overlooked in R.W. Fassbinder’s filmography, his 1973 made for television adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye’s science fiction novel, The Counterfeit World, where “projections resemble reality”, looks more prescient than ever.