Category Archive for: ‘Issue 39 – Classics & Re-runs’

Introduction: This is among Sam Rohdie’s earliest published writings on film. It appeared in the 1969 book Samuel Fuller edited by David Will and Peter Wollen for the Edinburgh Film Festival retrospective of that year, as Sam was hitting 30 (he also contributed to New Left Review in this period). As he recounts in his 2009 career-interview with Deane Williams, …

The film lacks rhythm! It is often by virtue of its absence that rhythm gleams for an instant in the eyes of film critics. It is true that we tend to mistake it for that briskness which Cicero once made the essential quality of a narrative. But conciseness – the cinematic definition of which is no better known – can …