Breathe in the spirit of The Goonies, as The Nomad takes you on a heady, 80s nostalgia trip with Mikey, Chunk, Data, Mouth and the rest of the gang. Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Home Alone), and Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman) conjured an intoxicating world of pre-pubescent, innocent adventure that made us all wish [...]
Bogart. Bergman. Romance. Peril. Simple elements that, combined, magically turned a modest WWII drama into one of the most celebrated films of all time. Plus a fabulous supporting cast (Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet) of complex characters, crisp cinematography, some of the most quotable – and misquoted – lines in all cinema, and of [...]
Remember when Tom Cruise was a hunky heartthrob? He took our breath away as he swept Kelly McGillis off her feet in this stalwart of mid-80s cinema. Top Gun is one of those rare films that appeals equally to guys (adrenalin, bromance), girls (men in uniform, romance) and action-loving kids (who go free with every [...]
Ah, you’ve gotta love a love triangle. That staple of rom-com and melodrama is even more irresistible when at least one of the tangled relationships is deliciously, dangerously illicit. So it is with The Graduate, as Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock is caught between the predatory Mrs Robinson and her innocent daughter. The film turned Hoffman [...]
Heeeeere’s Johnny! A family isolated in a run-down hotel with nothing but snow and things that go bump in the night – what could possibly go wrong? The pairing of Stanley Kubrick, the master of nightmares, with Jack Nicholson on eye-poppingly crazed form, was a surefire recipe for madness and mayhem. And where better to [...]
Baz Luhrmann lit a rocket under Shakespeare’s well-known tale of star-cross’d lovers: swapped daggers for guns, ‘fair Verona’ for Verona beach, and sent his camera careering across beautiful and lurid sets, following Leonardo di Caprio’s Romeo and Clare Danes’s Juliet to a pumping soundtrack of Radiohead, Des’ree, The Cardigans and more. Join The Nomad for [...]
There are some films that demand to be seen on the big screen. The unpronounceable, unconventional, uncategorisable Koyaanisqatsi is one such work. This sprawling, wordless travelogue swoops from city to ocean, barren plain to urban terrain, documenting our rapidly changing planet with breathtaking time-lapse photography, soundtracked by the music of that master of minimalism, Philip [...]
In other words: Herzog does Antarctica. That most intrepid documentarian Werner Herzog plunges as low as you can go, taking his camera and trademark dry observation to the South Pole. The vast expanses of white landscape are beautifully photographed but the film’s colour comes from the collection of odd bods Herzog meets there – scientists, [...]
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the highest and driest places on the planet, which means astronomers can gaze farther into space from there than anywhere else on Earth. In the 1970s it was also the site of one of Pinochet’s concentration camps, and so attracts survivors who comb the sands for remains [...]
2012’s multi-Oscar-winning instant classic will be bringing some old-school Hollywood glamour to Fulham Palace this September. The Artist stole every film-lover’s heart when it tap danced its way on to our screens earlier this year. This beautiful, beguiling, joyous love letter to cinema’s golden age deserves – demands – repeat viewing, so join The Nomad for [...]
