Jul 27, 2024
Dir: David Drury | Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Denholm Elliott, Greta Scacchi, Ian Bannen | UK political thriller 96’
Opening with a night scene taking place in East Anglia but rather strangely...
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Jul 25, 2024
Dir: Matt Winn | UK, Comedy satire, 90'
The Trouble with Jessica is of those spiky satires that hangs on a series of conundrums, the characters tossing the ball from one...
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Jul 25, 2024
Dir: Petr Vaclav. Czechia/Italy/Slovakia. 2022. 140 mins | Cast: Vojtěch Dyk, Barbara Ronchi, Elena Radonicich, Lana Vlady
Baroque music is at the core of this sweepingly romantic classically styled costume drama...
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Jul 25, 2024
Dir: Alexandre Tsutsunava | Georgia, Silent, Historical drama 190'
On the final night of the festival, on 21st July, we took to the deckchairs in Mestia's main square to watch this...
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Jul 25, 2024
Dir: Shawn Levy, Writers: Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Shawn Levy | Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni,...
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Jul 23, 2024
Dir: Charles Frend | UK Comedy
The last and least of his Ealing comedies - dismissed by Alec Guinness as "the wretched, boring 'Barnacle Bill' - which I never wanted to...
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Jul 23, 2024
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | Anime | 86'
This delicately drawn brightly animated fantasy is possibly the best loved of all Hayao Miyazaki's Ghibli offerings. The magical 'ghost' story is so cute...
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Jul 22, 2024
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Ray Milland Grace Kelly | Thriller 90’
Alfred Hitchcock doesn't get sufficient credit for his technical enterprise which here comes into full play in his exploitation...
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Jul 22, 2024
Dir.: Michelangelo Antonioni; Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry; Italy/France/Spain 1975, 126 min.
In nearly all of Antonioni’s features the leading protagonists go missing: Aldo in El Grido...
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