Left Field Cinema

Part five of five in a series asking whether horror movies are the modern day equivalent of the classical morality tales from the years before cinema. This week draws conclusions from the content discussed in the previous episodes and through comparisons with the Science Fiction genre.

Bela Tarr's seven and a half hour feature film. A beautiful, difficult, infuriating, disturbing exploration of the death of communism through the microcosm of a small Hungarian village.

South Korea maybe the current leader in unorthodox contemporary cinema, and Joon-ho Bong is one director helping his nations success in this sense. This week Left Field Cinema examines his sophomore film which forges its own unique genre - a serial killer comedy.

This weeks episode examines Francis Ford Coppola's under appreciated masterpiece, the film which gave Gene Hackman a career defining turn as the surveillance expert Harry Caul. We also take an extended look back at the long and varied career of Coppola.