Marvelous Videos with some movie recommendations for hard sci-fi lovers… It’s easy to exploit the science fiction genre for its ludicrous narrative potential. After all, as long as you can loosely relate your story concept back to something semi-realistic, you can technically call your motion picture an adherent of the “sci-fi” category. That being said, […]
BFI Review – Contact (1985) and Elephant (1989)
Contact, 1985 and Elephant, 1989. Directed by Alan Clarke. SYNOPSIS: Two films reflecting on the 1980’s in Northern Ireland. Alan Clarke, director of Scum and The Firm, is a director of men. These could be men in prisons or aggressive, violent offenders keen to tattoo swastikas on their foreheads, as he did in Made in […]
