Cruel Story of Youth + Legend (2015) + Medium Cool + Pop Goes the Easel - Eclectica #36

Published: Nov. 9, 2015, 12:09 p.m.

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This week we get unnecessarily vengeful about a children's Christmas film. Off the Shelf features Nagisa Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth and Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool - both from Masters of Cinema. Meanwhile, Ryan delves into the underrated Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Graham takes on Pop Goes the Easel - Ken Russell's portrait of artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips. Our Film of the Week is Legend - the Tom Hardy delivery vehicle based on the story of notorious London gangsters the Kray twins.