Nope, this isn’t Et, The Extraterrestrial, not by a long shot. Guest reviewer Lee Broughton offers an assessment of Harry Bromley Davenport’s British cult sci-fi shocker of modest means, a show that would be pure exploitation if not for some creditable performances. It’s nasty but has a basic competence and is not just more cynical grist for the mill. ‘Phone Home,’ my Aunt Fannie: sometimes the difference between a thriller like this and a higher-profile classic is just pretension.
Xtro
Region Free Blu-ray + CD
Second Sight (UK)
1982 / Color / 1.85 widescreen / 86 min. / Street Date, 18 June 2018 / £29.99
Starring: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d’Abo, Simon Nash, Susie Silvey, Peter Mandell, Anna Wing, Tim Dry, Sean Crawford, Robert Pereno, David Cardy.
Cinematography: John Metcalfe
Film Editor: Nicolas Gaster
Production Designer: Andrew Mollo
Original Music: Harry Bromley Davenport
Written by Iain Cassie, Robert Smith, Michel Parry, Harry Bromley Davenport, Jo Ann Kaplan...
Xtro
Region Free Blu-ray + CD
Second Sight (UK)
1982 / Color / 1.85 widescreen / 86 min. / Street Date, 18 June 2018 / £29.99
Starring: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d’Abo, Simon Nash, Susie Silvey, Peter Mandell, Anna Wing, Tim Dry, Sean Crawford, Robert Pereno, David Cardy.
Cinematography: John Metcalfe
Film Editor: Nicolas Gaster
Production Designer: Andrew Mollo
Original Music: Harry Bromley Davenport
Written by Iain Cassie, Robert Smith, Michel Parry, Harry Bromley Davenport, Jo Ann Kaplan...
- 7/7/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
My friend and colleague Jo Ann Kaplan, who has died aged 70, was a painter, film-maker and film teacher. Her last film, Watching Paint Dry, shows Jo Ann painting her self-portrait. Through the use of time-lapse photography, we see paintings start, develop and finish. These are intercut with close-up shots of her facial features.
Begun in 2007 when she was diagnosed with emphysema, it is a film of an artist coming to terms with her mortality by exploring the changing topography of her ageing face. As with all her work, it is carefully conceived and elegantly realised, presenting the emotional intimacy of a technical process. It is an extraordinary work-in-progress that came to a stop with its maker.
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Begun in 2007 when she was diagnosed with emphysema, it is a film of an artist coming to terms with her mortality by exploring the changing topography of her ageing face. As with all her work, it is carefully conceived and elegantly realised, presenting the emotional intimacy of a technical process. It is an extraordinary work-in-progress that came to a stop with its maker.
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- 5/4/2016
- by Larry Sider
- The Guardian - Film News
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