Oct 23, 2025
Dir: Ira Sachs. 2025. 76 mins. 2025
Reviewed by Peter Herbert
Peter Hujar’s Day continues director Ira Sachs’ adventures in film style, form and genre with a filmed recreation of rediscovered tapes...
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Oct 22, 2025
Director: Vladlena Sandu | Autobiographical drama, hybrid documentary
Memory is an autobiographical drama directed by Vladlena Sandu creating a visual memory of her childhood in Chechnya during the war. The film...
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Oct 21, 2025
Dir: Thorold Dickinson | Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wyngard, Frank Pettingell | UK thriller
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
Although long overlooked in favour of MGM's lavish Hollywood version Thorold Dickinson's earlier British...
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Oct 21, 2025
Dir: Werner Herzog. USA. 2025. 99’
In his latest film Werner Herzog travels to the far reaches of Africa in search of the legendary giant elephants of the Angolan highlands.
Ghost Elephants...
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Oct 20, 2025
Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria Doc 78’
Lights blinking like a ghostly tardis from outer space a snowplow moves silently through a mysterious white landscape. A man stands outside his house...
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Oct 20, 2025
Dir: Céline Sciamma | Adèle Haenel, Noemie Merlant | Drama, France 120'
Heading up this series Bfi series on melodramas is Céline Sciamma's fourth feature, an enigmatic and delicate film that glows...
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Oct 19, 2025
Dir: Katharina Kastner | Doc, Belg/France/Ger/ 25'
Katerina Kastner's impressionistic documentary debut captures the essence of the Villa Empain, one of the most beautiful architectural masterpieces of Art Deco in Brussels....
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Oct 19, 2025
Towards the end of his life philosopher, critic and filmmaker Jean Epstein (1897-1953) reflected over an illustrious career spanning nearly thirty years; “The Intelligence of a Machine” he said "against...
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Oct 18, 2025
Dir/Wri: Jean Epstein | Cast: Luc Dartagnan, Charles Lamy, Halma Fournez-Goffarn, Marguerite Abel Gance, Pierre Hot, Jean Debucourt | France,
Edgar Allan Poe and Jean Epstein were clearly made to collaborate...
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