Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

Cagey Films

Subscribe to Cagey Films’s news feed.

Click on “Follow” and decide if you want to get news from Cagey Films via RSS, as email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page.

Subscription to Cagey Films comes without risk as you can unsubscribe instantly at any time.

You can also filter the feed to your needs via topics and keywords so that you only receive the news from Cagey Films which you are really interested in. Click on the blue “Filter” button below to get started.

Website title: Home

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.16 / day

Message History

The stresses of moving to a new apartment after being settled for ten years aren’t entirely over even though everything is now in the new place. But unpacking, sorting and re-shelving the books and movies I’ve brought with me seems far less daunting than the protracted process of deciding what to keep and what to […]

Read full story
With my move to a new apartment imminent, I revisit some familiar films, with both confirmation and revision of long-held opinions. A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) is something of an outlier in Sergio Leone's career, displaying his skill with impressive large-scale action, but an awkward mix of comedy and violence; Hearts of Darkness (1991), constructed around Eleanor Coppola's beh...

Read full story
Regular visitors to the blog will immediately notice a big change today … after more than fifteen years and a lot of bad habits, the Cagey Films website has accrued a lot of embedded issues which affect it’s performance detrimentally. While we work on cleaning up some of the problems we’ll be in partial maintenance […]

Read full story
Crime, politics and genre tropes combine effectively in a political thriller from Italy's "years of lead" and three stories of violent revenge from early '80s France. Radiance's edition of Marco Bellocchio's Slap the Monster on Page One (1972) and Fun City Editions' three-disk Seeing Red set illustrate the thematic and psychological flexibility of the crime genre.

Read full story