Left Field Cinema

Sponsored by Movie Mail UK - The quality cinema specialists. Order DVD's from them at www.moviemail-online.co.uk. Details of this weeks competition are announced at the end of the show. Part two of a five part series asking whether horror movies are the modern day equivalent of the classical morality tales from the years before cinema. This weeks episode examines the question in relation to William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic. Part three will follow in a few weeks time.

Sponsored by Movie Mail UK - The quality cinema specialists. Order DVD's from them at www.moviemail-online.co.uk. Celebrating the David Lean centenary, this episode of Left Field Cinema reviews a hidden classic from earlier in his career. The thematic sister film to Brief Encounter, featuring outstanding performances from Claude Rains and Trevor Howard.  Details of how you can win a copy of The Passionate Friends are announced at the end of the show.

Left Field Cinema is now sponsored by Movie Mail UK - The quality cinema specialists. Order DVD's from them at www.moviemail-online.co.uk. This weeks episode compares Michael Haneke's breakthrough feature Funny Games with its now notorious shot for shot english language remake Funny Games U.S. Details of how you can win a copy of Funny Games U.S are announced at the end of the show.

Part four of the misunderstood modern cinema series.  This week an examination of Stanley Kubrick's final film. Often unfairly dismissed as his worst, this episode will argue that it is an excellent contortion of male fantasies and narrowly survives being crippled by its own notoriety and celebrity.

Part one of a five part series asking whether horror movies are the modern day equivalent of the classical morality tales from the years before cinema. This weeks episode examines the question in a general sense, introducing the concept which will be explored more thoroughly in the subsequent parts. Part two will follow in a few weeks time.

This weeks show examines two Kar Wai Wong masterpieces, and takes a look back at the films and themes of his career.

An analysis of the new Matt Reeves film Cloverfield. Is it a 9/11 analogy or simply a monster movie informed by the current political climate?

The first episode in a series which will examine all the fiction films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, another of Left Field Cinema's top five directors. This week is an examination of his third feature film.

This weeks episode examines Christopher Nolan's 2000 film Memento with special attention to reception theory.

The first in the British masterpiece series, this week examining the Mike Hodges version of Get Carter.