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Welcome to the Pulverdrome

The Guardian’s Andrew Pulver delves into his cabinet of cinema curiosities
  • John Hughes and Budd Schulberg

    Budd Schulberg and John Hughes: we've lost two great illuminators

    Andrew Pulver: Both prized humanity and were fearless in their defence of it. RIP

  • Comrades, directed by Bill Douglas (1986)

    Pulverdrome in Edinburgh: Comrades reunited in Bill Douglas's lost epic

    The infamous director's film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs is an unsung masterpiece. Reissued at last, it remains an extraordinary work

  • John Cusack in Say Anything (1989)

    Can John Cusack ever top his terrific teen trilogy?

    Andrew Pulver: In the past 20 years, John Cusack has been a distinctive presence in everything from noir thrillers to action blockbusters. But it's the bittersweet rom-coms of the 80s that will ensure his screen immortality

  • Still from Killer's Kiss by Stanley Kubrick (1955)

    Stanley Kubrick's knockout friend

    Andrew Pulver: Walter Cartier was a photogenic boxer making his name in New York when a young Stanley Kubrick took his pictures and then included him in his first film. The rest, as they say, is cinema history

  • The Young Poisoner's Handbook

    Pulverdrome: The Young Poisoner's Handbook is a guide worth keeping

    This month we unearth from the cabinet of curiousities a fondly-remembered comedy about a teen killer from Neasden

  • This Gun for Hire

    Is Graham Greene the father of film noir?

    Before The Third Man and This Gun for Hire, Graham Greene's rarely seen The Green Cockatoo staked out some of the territory that film noir went on to claim

  • Scene from Salesman

    Salesman: a truly Millerian experience

    Forget Glengarry Glen Ross. The real Willy Loman can be seen in Albert and David Maysles' 1968 masterpiece of unselfconsciousness

  • Dougal and the Blue Cat

    If you thought The Magic Roundabout was spooky ...

    Dougal and the Blue Cat is as fresh in memory now as it was in 1972. Lucky - today it's impossible to see

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    The John Ford of the Wirral

    Andrew Pulver

    Alex Cox made two extremely famous films: Repo Man and Sid & Nancy. But it's his central American trilogy that really astonishes

  • Let's get lost in Bruce Weber

  • Pulverdrome: Looking for Chet

  • Andrew Pulver

    Welcome to the Pulverdrome: Saint Etienne

    Andrew Pulver

    In the first of a new series celebrating the obscure and overlooked, Andrew Pulver on the curious cinema of Saint Etienne

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