I'm not sure why the April edition is published at the beginning of March? The following extracts are only those that caught my eye of numerous articles in the magazine. Every month someone chooses their ten favourite films and this month it was "The Ballot of ... Christine Molloy and Joe Lawler " Apparently they are Irish writer-directors who I have never heard of. Joe chose Barry Lyndon as his favourite Stanley Kubrick movie while I, like most people, think it's his worst. In "Editor's Choice" one book is called Death Lines: Walking London's Horror History". Might be interesting. At the Sundance Film festival, that happens every January, comes Steven Soderbergh's Presence, a film shot from the ghost's point of view. Also a film by Rose Glass (Saint Maud) called Love Lies Bleeding, an amped up romantic crime thriller. I wonder if these two get a general release.
Then the posters of Frank McCarthy include those iconic ones for The Great Escape and You Only Live Twice. "Opening Scenes" this month is all about trans films, but no mention of the brilliant A Fantastic Woman the movie from Chile that won the Oscar for best foreign film. The big feature this month is, of course, Dune Part Two, over ten pages. It starts with a piece by Roger Luckhurst about how difficult it was to coherently adapt Frank Herbert's book and how those who failed included Ridley Scott and Roger Corman. David Lynch's version from 1984 was called a bit of a disaster. Eighty sets in the Mexican desert ran away with the budget. Then we have a long interview with director Denis Villeneuve who also wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts.
A long article headed by Bradley Cooper's Maestro was just an excuse to look at films of great composers. From some early movies to the excellent Tar. I preferred the single page on "Kubrick's Classical Odyssey" with a selection of music in five of his movies. Of the twenty one film reviews I may be only going to see Ethan Coen's Drive Away Dolls. Although I will have to look out for the combination of eight countries who made The Delinquents.
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