Oct 20, 2023
Dir: Laurence Olivier | Cast: Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson | UK Drama 151’
Olivier's third cinematic version of Shakespeare - the fourth if you count...
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Oct 20, 2023
Arts curator Peter Herbert reports from year's Bfi London Film Festival on London's South Bank:
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023) has a kind of ponderous beauty drawing parallels between the consumerism of ...
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Oct 20, 2023
Dir: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain, Drama 128'
Can a child as young as eight have strong sexual feelings, and trans ones into the bargain? That's what Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren explores...
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Oct 20, 2023
Dir.: Carol Morley; Cast: Monica Dolan, Kelly McDonald, Gina McKee; UK 2023. 108 min.
Carol Morley is best known for her debut Dream of a Life, a docudrama about a woman...
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Oct 19, 2023
Dir: Gabor Reisz | Cast: Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh, István Znamenák, András Rusznák, Rebeka Hatházi, Eliza Sodró, Lilla Kizlinger & Krisztina Urbanovits | Hungary, Drama
The tensions of Hungary's polarised society come unexpectedly...
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Oct 17, 2023
Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger is a major UK-wide celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988).
Bold,...
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Oct 16, 2023
Dir: Joseph Losey | Cast: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle and directed by Joseph Losey.
Joseph Losey and fellow blacklistee Ben Barzman joined Stanley Baker for the first time in...
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Oct 16, 2023
Dir: Michael Powell | Leo Marks | Cast: Anna Massey, Karlheinz Bohm, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley | Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson | UK Horror, 101'
Raymond Durgnat later observed that this...
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Oct 15, 2023
Dir/Wri: Madeleine Gavin | US Doc 115'
This electrifying new documentary about North Korea focuses on those trying to escape the brutal regime, and won this year's Audience Award at Sundance...
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