Jan 2, 2026
Dir: Kote Mikaberidze | Silent Drama 1929
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
The vagaries of film preservation have been so capricious that the unexpected rediscovery of less than a hundred hitherto obscure silents...
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Jan 1, 2026
Dir: F.W. Murnau | Cast: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan | Drama
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
For his Hollywood debut, 'Sunrise' (1927), F.W.Murnau famously had built an enormous set depicting a city...
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Jan 1, 2026
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant , Claude Rains | US Thriller
reviewed by Richard Chatten
By the he made 'Notorious' Hitchcock had comfortably settled into the Hollywood scene...
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Dec 30, 2025
2026 kicks off with several ground-breaking releases all coming to the BFi IMAX early next year
THE BRIDE! (Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2026)
IMAX with Laser
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal returns with this modern retelling of Mary Shelly's gothic...
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Dec 28, 2025
Dir.: Willy Rozier; Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Francois Calve, Howard Vernon; France 1952, 76 min.
Also known in the UK/US under the title The Girl in the Bikini, this was the second...
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Dec 26, 2025
Dir: Monta Bell | Norma Shearer Malcolm McGregor, George K Arthur | US Silent Drama 1925
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
A good example of the cinema of the 1920s habit of...
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Dec 25, 2025
Dir/Writer| Orson Welles Cast: Orson Wells, Paul Van Eyck, Michael Redgrave | US 93’
By Richard Chatten
“Now there's a flawed masterpiece!!" barked Orson Welles when reminded of this film by Alan...
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Dec 25, 2025
Dir: Joseph H.Lewis | Noir Thriller | US | Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Helen Walker, Jean Wallace
“I live in a maze, Mr. Diamond, a strange, blind and backward maze. All...
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Dec 23, 2025
Dir: Paul Feig | Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar | US 2025
The Housemaid is a shamelessly raunchy thriller that follows much the same path as the usual ‘home-help’...
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