Monday, October 17, 2016

Film Forum Eat Your Heart Out

The Projectionist has been slaving over a hot projector and bringing you the kaboodle and the kit and the kitchen sink too. Schlock you like a hurricane, giallo gelato, McGee's who is on the level, the best of Beeb, lycanthropes and misanthropes tropes and other adventures in nitrate today in The Projection Room.



The Play For Today Is Thisaway - and it's the sequel to The Flipside of Dominick Hide
that aired four years prior.  And its some more time passages in this acclaimed

science-fiction installment of the lauded anthology series. 
Another Flip For Dominick (1984)

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In 1964, Seven Up!,  which perhaps would be the start of one of the most staggeringly impressive documentary series in the whole of time. The cinema world was graced with this now seven part series, with Canadian factotum Paul Almond initially at the helm. The Granada produced powerhouse,
was inspired by a pericope of Ignatious Loyola's that was adopted as a slogan for the Jesuits; " Give me a child when he is seven, and I will give you the man'

In this documentary, we are introduced to fourteen children, all
disparate in their socio-economic backgrounds and from various
regions of the UK. In the first release, these subjects
were all at the tender age of seven, precociously frank and surprisingly

candid for their age as their little lives would be documented in all their glory, from their minutiae to their magnificence

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What happens when Big Foot meets a Werewolf, hard to say - but you are in for one
hairy situation, but hirsute is really really in this season.
This one will knock your schlocks off


The Werewolf and The Yeti from 1975 directed by Paul Naschy

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The acclaimed Screen Two series, had an unusually long run between 1985 and 2002, with equally as unusual premises. Here's one that takes a leaf out of Hitchcock's book and you 

will see just why. Charles Dance does his best quick step in this from the 1986 season. The McGuffin (1986)

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Ferdinando Baldi was rigatoni western royalty and like his brethren and sisteren of the spaghetti days - matriculated to giallo.  Packed to the gills with prurience but it's really all
about the surroundings isn't it, nothing like  a spaghetti sunset or a giallo garden eh?

Nine Guests for a Crime (1977)


Starter course it's Brian Murphy in the short-lived British comedy series - L For Lester, from 1982.

Dial S For Sunday Sundries Tomatoes

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