Left Field Cinema

Part three 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 Jonathan Demme's 1991 award winning horror The Silence of the Lambs and David Fincher's dark and moody 1995 sophomore feature Se7en. Part four will follow in a few weeks time.

Comparing two notable science fiction films, Ridley Scott's terrifying classic Alien (1979), and Danny Boyle's highly derivative but utterly engaging Sunshine (2007). Exploring the differences, the similarities, the sub genre as a whole and both films place within it.

Left Field Cinema examines Julio Medem's 1998 feature film Lovers of the Arctic Circle, with special attention also paid to his inferior 2001 follow-up Sex and Lucia.

This week Left Field Cinema continues a series of episodes examining the greatest work of Ingmar Bergman. Looking back at his unrelentingly bleak 1968 war film Shame.

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.