The TELEGRAPH (UK) ASKS: ‘Is The Painted Bird an exploitation movie or a piece of respectful, if brutal, art cinema?’

 THE PAINTED BIRD Official Trailer (UK & Ireland) https://youtu.be/ECUiSb2WEvU via @YouTube

The most horrifying war film ever made: the painful history behind The Painted Bird https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/horrifying-war-film-ever-made-painful-history-behind-painted/

THIS IS ONE OF THE LAST ONES, BY MINA LOY

Marble

Greece has thrown       white shadows

sown

their eyeballs with oblivion

A flock of stone

Gods

perched upon pedestals

A populace

of athlete lilies

of the galleries

swoop the facades of space

with spiral curves

of idol substance

in the silence

A colonnade

Apollo haunts Apollo

with the shade

of a lost hand

In my previous blog, ‘As King Arthur drama ‘Cursed’ opens on Netflix, Tom Fordy discusses its legendary precursor ‘Excalibur’ with director John Boorman’s son Charley‘

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