Left Field Cinema

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. 

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.

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.