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Edinburgh U Film Society is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Keith H. Brown.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Iain Lang Approached in the right way it's mind-blowing.
Posted Jul 25, 2006
The Immortal Story (1968) Spiros Gangas Perhaps Welles' least ambitious film but one which contains most of the elements present in his admirable corpus of work.
Posted Feb 03, 2004
4/5
One Hour Photo (2002) George Williamson
Posted Aug 05, 2003
Three Colors: White (1993) Keith H. Brown Kieslowski presents a character who seeks superiority rather than equality and in a capitalist society he achieves it.
Posted Jun 18, 2002
Three Colors: Blue (1993) Keith H. Brown Many moments will surely linger in the memory.
Posted Jun 18, 2002
Shame (1968) Keith H. Brown One of Bergman's most intense films.
Posted Jun 18, 2002
Un Chien Andalou (1929) Keith H. Brown The result of an amalgamation of the dreams of a madman (Dali) and a genius (Buñuel), Un Chien Andalou shocked the world three quarters of a decade ago and continues to do so today.
Posted Apr 20, 2002
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) Keith H. Brown An unusual, magical, cinematically brilliant movie that deserves to be seen.
Posted Jul 24, 2001
Enter the Dragon (1973) Keith H. Brown Certainly one of the baddest movies there is -- in every sense of the term.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Jackie Brown (1997) Keith H. Brown A classy package and an interesting auteur piece.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Fight Club (1999) Keith H. Brown One of the best films of the last decade.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Keith H. Brown Everything in Umbrellas is incredibly bright and colourful...Yet, behind this surface, a rather more cynical worldview is apparent.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Raging Bull (1980) Keith H. Brown Widely acclaimed as both the greatest film of the 1980s and of its director, Martin Scorsese, this is one of a select handful of films that everyone should see.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Peeping Tom (1960) Keith H. Brown Critics and audiences in 1960 were unprepared for Peeping Tom's relentless self-reflexive examination of the voyeurism and sadism explicit in the experience of watching movies.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Dead Alive (1992) Keith H. Brown If you are a little squeamish then this is not the film for you, however those of a nervous disposition need not worry as Jackson is definitely playing for laughs.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Heavenly Creatures (1994) Keith H. Brown The two leads play their parts brilliantly, convincing in both their innocence and their malevolence.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Last Seduction (1994) Keith H. Brown John Dahl has established himself as a candidate for the title 'current king of the neo-noir.'
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Evil Dead II (1987) Keith H. Brown Arguably the best horror-comedy ever made.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Hamlet (1996) Neil Chue Hong Branagh himself, as Hamlet, is so alive with energy that you realise that it's not just his hair that's glowing.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Scream (1996) Keith H. Brown If there's a problem with Scream it is that its very success dooms it to spawn a wave of cash-in imitations, few of which will exhibit their predecessors skill and intelligence.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Fortune Cookie (1966) Stephen Townsend This film set the pattern for future Lemmon-Matthau films and I would firmly contend that while the subsequent features are certainly in parts very funny, none surpasses the consistent excellence of this true gem of American film comedy.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Quiz Show (1994) Neil Chue Hong Characterised by fine performances and sharp dialogue, Quiz Show is a much more piercing (and entertaining) view of American ideals than Forrest Gump or Apollo 13.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Heart of Glass (1976) Mark Radice Heart of Glass is fitfully both agonisingly abstruse and intensely intimate.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Halloween (1978) Keith H. Brown Perfect entertainment for the night of October 31st in any year.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Altered States (1980) Keith H. Brown No simple description could ever manage to convey the sheer visual assault of the film. It's a movie that has to be seen, experienced.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Repulsion (1965) Keith H. Brown Repulsion is perhaps Polanski's and Deneuve's finest hours.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Keith H. Brown It is not that the movie is particularly graphic, with very little blood actually being spilled on screen. Rather, it's a very disturbing film.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Vertigo (1958) Keith H. Brown It may not be as funny or light as the best known of Hitchcock's work but this is certainly a classic largely because of it's impressively unlikeable, intense characters so at odds with Hitch's trademark Hollywood glamour films of the same time.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Rope (1948) Keith H. Brown Rope remains worth seeing, for its difference from cinema in general and from the rest of Hitchcock's work in particular.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
M (1931) Keith H. Brown M is one of director Lang's many greats.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Seven Samurai (1954) Keith H. Brown Perhaps Akira Kurosawa's greatest triumph, The Seven Samurai is a bona fide classic of cinema, a regular on many critics all-time top tens. So, if you haven't seen it before, why not?
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Throne of Blood (1957) Keith H. Brown A prime example of cinematic cross-cultural pollination.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Casino (1995) Keith H. Brown Scorsese and co. will never make a bad film, only another one.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Some Like It Hot (1959) Malcolm Maclaren Some Like it Hot is possibly the most perfect comedy ever made...
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Hamlet (1990) Catherine Monelle Highly enjoyable.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967) Keith H. Brown An affectionate parody of the Hammer horror films we all know and love from late-night TV.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Seventh Seal (1957) Keith H. Brown This is a film which absolutely deserves its status as a cinematic masterpiece and an opportunity to see it on a big screen should not be missed.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Germany Year Zero (1948) Keith H. Brown A grim movie perhaps... but a great one: Rossellini provides a fitting end to both the trilogy and his 'pure' neo-realist period.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Wings of Desire (1987) Keith H. Brown The delicate way that Wenders' articulates feelings of loss, alienation, and the first twinges of love let the film transcend its historical place.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Down by Law (1986) Iain Harral As usual, Jarmusch comes up with something stylish, funny, and strangely touching.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Crossfire (1947) Keith H. Brown An intriguing combination of a common noir theme with the liberal-minded message picture.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Boogie Nights (1997) Keith H. Brown Anderson draws us in subtly, using the perhaps-surprising amount of humour inherent in his material.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Night of the Living Dead (1968) Keith H. Brown Shocks come from the way in which Romero repeatedly presents a clichd situations in which we think we know what's going on, only for Romero to pull out the rug from underneath, thereby producing a greater shock.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Neil Chue Hong It's trash, but it's masterful trash.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) Keith H. Brown Often unjustly neglected in favour of its predecessor, The Curse of the Cat People is a great film in its own right, perhaps second only to the magical realist The Spirit of the Beehive as an evocation of the horrors of childhood.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) Keith H. Brown A stylish noir-ish crime drama boasting, amongst other things, an improvised Miles Davis soundtrack.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Alphaville (1965) Keith H. Brown Godard's avoidance of conventional science fiction architecture, in favour of what was actually available within Paris 1965, is his way of commenting on the city, what it was doing to its inhabitants, and what they were in danger of becoming.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Wild Strawberries (1957) Keith H. Brown Quite simply a must-see for the serious filmgoer, offering a perfect introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest directors.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Metropolis (1927) Keith H. Brown The original dystopic movie, the first sci-fi epic; Lang's skilful juxtaposition of Germanic gothicism with Art Deco resulted in a brilliant motion picture, a classic in every sense.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) Keith H. Brown [A] B movie classic.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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