Mar 5, 2025
Richard Chatten looks at three film interpretations of the famous 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Dir: Robert Julian | Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Although serving...
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Mar 4, 2025
This year's London-based watchAUT Austrian Film Festival, celebrates its third year, championing the best new films to emerge from Austria.
Running 13 – 16 March at Ciné Lumière and the ICA...
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Mar 4, 2025
Dir/Wri: Laura Carreira | Cast: Piotr Sikora, Ines Vaz, Neil Leiper | 104'
A simple film with broad implications underlining the soullessness of working in warehouse distribution. On Falling follows a...
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Mar 3, 2025
Dir/Wri: Sean Baker | Cast: Mikey Madison, Paul Weissman, Yura Borisov, Lindsay Normington, Emily Weider | US comedy drama 139'
This well-acted but overlong three-act social satire is as funny as...
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Feb 28, 2025
Kinoteka Polish Film Festival is back from 6th March to 25 April the latest films from the festival circuit along with cult classics from the archives.
2025 also marks the UK/Poland...
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Feb 28, 2025
Dir.: Sam Pollard; Documentary with Clarence Jones, Charles Know, James Comey, Donna March , Beverly Gage, Andrew Young; USA 2020, 104 min.
Seasoned documentarian Sam Pollard takes a deep dive into...
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Feb 27, 2025
Eugene Allen Hackman, who has died aged 95, was one of cinema's greatest actors. In a career that spanned over four decades he received two Academy Awards and Four Golden...
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Feb 27, 2025
Dir/Wri: Bernhard Wenger. Austria/Germany | 102'
The popular saying ‘to thine own self be true’ lies at the heart of this cynical comedy psychodrama from Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wenger. If you...
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Feb 26, 2025
Dir: Anatole Litvak | Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brenner, Helen Hayes | US Drama
Although long considered Hollywood royalty Bergman's reign was only actually relatively briefly during the early forties...
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