Prospero’s Books (1991)
Aug 3, 2000Shakespeare Adaptation
Peter Greenaway gets loose on Shakespeare's The Tempest, indulging his obsessions with lists and multimedia visuals while the costume department goes completely over-the-top
Mark Rylance
Institute Benjamenta; or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
Feb 17, 2003Surrealism
A cryptic surrealist full-length film from The Brothers Quay set at an enigmatic butler training school. Beautifully designed and photographed.
The BFG (2016)
Jul 10, 2016Roald Dahl Adaptation/Friendly Giant
Steven Spielberg adapts the Roald Dahl story. Despite the film bombing at the box-office, it is one of considerable charms. Spielberg doesn't produce another E.T. but then he hasn't delivered another Hook either
Ready Player One (2018)
Sep 29, 2018Virtual Treasure Hunt Through 1980s Pop Trivia
Steven Spielberg adapted Ernest Cline’s book about a massive virtual treasure hunt through 1980s pop culture trivia. The film winds up the pop culture references by a factor of ten, but misses the book’s compulsive readability
Don’t Look Up (2021)
Jan 8, 2022The End of the World/Satire
The perfect film for the Covid era. A devastatingly on the ball satire on the ineptitude of people’s response in the face of an extinction level threat to the Earth from an oncoming comet as government agencies tries to minimise the news
Bones and All (2022)
Jan 21, 2023Young Adult Cannibalism Film
Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino sinks his teeth into making a film about cannibalism. Forget the Young Adult label the film was sold with, this is quite an impressive work