Massacre Gun (15)
Forget the terrible title and enjoy this stylish and gripping slice of 'Nakkatsu noir', the name given to the Yakuza gangster films made at Japan's oldest film studio in the 1950s and 1960s. This one, from 1967, tells the story of three brothers who take on the local crime lord with predictably blood-splattered results. The suits are crisp, there's an effervescent jazz score and director Yasuharu Hasebe sets his powerful denouement on a half-built motorway flyover in a scene which, if it hasn't already been resurrected in a Quentin Tarantino film, deserves to be.
Frequencies (12)
In its tale of love-against-the-odds in an alternate reality, this curious British sci-fi film has flavours of Gattaca, Never Let Me Go and the deeply odd Upstream Color, which suggests writer-director Darren Paul Fisher has a bright future ahead of him. Eleanor Wyld and Daniel Fraser play former schoolmates Marie and Zak, whose different "frequencies" mean they can never be together - or even near each other for more than a minute. But then the low-frequency Zak finds a way of beating the system.
Bill Morrison: Selected Films 1996-2014
Three disc set from the BFI exploring the work of the American artist and experimental film-maker best known for Decasia, a collage of decaying archive film set to a ear-splitting soundtrack by composer Michael Gordon.
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