Louis Malle’s Vive le Tour provides a fascinating snapshot of a very different Tour de France
As the Tour de France kicks off this weekend, we’ve taken this as encouragement to revisit Louis Malle‘s superb documentary Vive le Tour and the wonderful insight it gives us into a very different race. When Malle turned his cameras on the cyclists in 1962, the Tour de France was almost six decades old – with a couple of pauses for two … Read more
Axelle Carolyn on Soulmate and the BBFC
Axelle Carolyn‘s feature film début, Soulmate, is unfortunately going to be cut for its UK release, following a BBFC judgment on its opening scene. For those who may be unfamiliar with the British Board of Film Classification, what this means is that the uncut version of Carolyn’s film cannot now be sold in a physical format anywhere in … Read more
Ted Kotcheff on First Blood and how Rambo almost died
Earlier today news broke that after a series of false starts and different story ideas, a fifth Rambo film will indeed go into production soon, and Stallone will be back in the title role. What better time, we thought, to share a few anecdotes director Ted Kotcheff told us about First Blood earlier this year. We were saving … Read more
The Salvation review
The extent to which you enjoy The Salvation will be rooted in your feelings about westerns in general, such is director Kristin Levring‘s devotion to the trappings and tropes of the genre. So many recognisable elements are on display that the film sometimes feels like a highlights reel. The story opens with the introduction of a lone gunman hero, … Read more