Paul A J Lewis
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"Don't Call Me Doctor" Writer/Lecturer (Film Studies/Photography) Writing Portfolio: Writing commissions/queries: DM or email (pajlewis[at]btinternet.com) Kill It With Fire #CultMovies #Podcast
Go on, then. Never seen this one, surprisingly, so happy to give it a watch this evening. #NightGame #RoyScheider
Apple TV's plot summary for Michael Winner's DEATH WISH (1974) is wild.
Finished two articles recently. Relaxing Friday watching @Criterion's stupendous new 4k release of one of my fave #JohnWaters films, DESPERATE LIVING. Plus a glass of vodka on ice. Nice.
Rewatching #DavidCronenberg's CRASH (1996), I'm struck by the memory that when I saw this at the cinema, 30 years ago, I was good friends at university with a young woman who had bad facial scarring from a car accident that also killed her father. Strange what lingers in memory.
Though I would have loved to see something from Bogosian (or even Liev Schreiber, who has spoken eloquently about the play before) about the play, but hey-ho.
Really pleased with the new the new Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Oliver Stone's TALK RADIO (1988). This has long been a favourite of mine, since encountering it on VHS c.1990. Massive upgrade over my old DVD. Extras are fine... 1/2
Starting a rewatch of #CRACKER. Stellar writing by #JimmyMcGovern and a superb performance from #RobbieColtrane. This one hits much differently when you revisit it as a 40-something with a family. Shame the home video releases are all compromised in one way or another.
Really need to dig out my collection of Philip K Dick's short stories, as I want to reread "Second Variety" and "Jon's World," and then rewatch Christian Duguay's adaptation, SCREAMERS (1995).
I have a tough time picking a favourite from Samuel Fuller’s body of work. However, White Dog (1982) is damn near the top of the list. #SamFuller #WhiteDog
Tonight's shenanigans. Superb film. Alan Sharp's script is as on-point as his scripts for NIGHT MOVES and ULZANA'S RAID (imo). Desperately needs a good BD or 4k (yes, please!) release. #TheLastRun #GeorgeCScott #RichardFleischer #AlanSharp
#ThisNightIllWatchYour VHS rip of Nigel Dick's PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS (1987). Never seen this one before. Curiousity piqued by the soundtrack LP I keep seeing in my local record store. Co-scripted by #JohnDahl. Half an hour in and enjoying the heck out of it.
The #BFI 4K release of #AkiraKurosawa’s #Yojimbo is something very special indeed. Not seen the film in maybe 20 years but it lives in my memory, beat by extraordinary beat. Beautiful presentation.
Graffiti that, for a time, was emblazoned on the sea wall at the North Beach in Cleethorpes, on the Lincolnshire coastline.
I'm kind of thinking that #AbelFerrara's superb #neonoir FEAR CITY (1984) is quite, um, poorly represented by the only two quotes from the film that the IMDb list for it... This from a film that has some superb lines (not these two) in its script.
I often think about that Arthur Miller quote that opens John Flynn's OUT FOR JUSTICE (1991) and hope that some of the excised footage featuring more of William Forsythe's performance turns up someday. "Anybody seen Richie," indeed.
Presently, I feel a little bit like digging out my quad poster for Werner Herzog's COBRA VERDE and hanging it on my bedroom wall.
Well, that's more than acceptable, I guess. Not surprised at all that #GregoryDark and #HarryDeanStanton were my "most watcheds" in 2025. #LetterboxdWrapped #GregoryHippolyte
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945) Eddie G is pitiful and Dan Duryea is superbly sleazy in this wonderful noir from Lang. The desperation in Chris Cross’ bond with crook Kitty is palpable. The way this acts as the catalyst for his already miserable life to fall completely apart is wrenching.
La marge / The Streetwalker (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976) Sex is, and in fact all relationships are, transactional in this richly textured film from Borowczyk. La marge has all the attention to mise-en-scène that defines Borowczyk’s cinema, and a strong indictment of the way in which ...
House by the River (Fritz Lang, 1950) Haunting gothic noir in which a failed writer, with a sense of entitlement a mile wide, murders the housemaid after whom he has lusted, before dragging his innocent brother into the deadly mix. Beautifully directed, with a marvelous sense of place.
"Did you come to that conclusion out of patriotism or just greed?" - Lew Harper (Paul Newman), THE DROWNING POOL (Stuart Rosenberg, 1975)
And one of my fave thrillers of the era, L'AMICO D'INFANZIA / THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND (1994). I pitched an article about that one to a magazine (which shall remain nameless) recently. It was turned down but I may revise the pitch and send it to another publication.