Jul 28, 2019
Dir: Park Chan-Wook | South Korea 120'
Many found Korean cult horror outing ‘Sympathy for Mr Vengeance’ too violent, but Oldboy takes the Asian Extreme genre even further.
Don’t be misled into...
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Jul 26, 2019
Dir.: Krzysztof Kieslowski; Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzyztof Globisz | Poland 1988, 84 min.
So powerful was the effect of Krzysztof Kieslowski's graphic description of violence in eighties Warsaw that the Polish authorities...
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Jul 25, 2019
The 76th Venice Classics strand is always special - a selection of the best restorations carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world.
This...
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Jul 23, 2019
Dir: Jean Becker | Wri Sébastien Japrisot | Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève, Michel Galabru, François Cluzet, Edith Scob | France 133’
Isabelle Adjani plays a sensual...
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Jul 23, 2019
Dir: Roberto Gavaldon | Fantasy drama | Mexico 91'
The BFI's season of films from Mexican cinema's postwar golden age concludes with this rarely seen neo-realist fantasy that resembles an episode...
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Jul 22, 2019
Dir.: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Cast: Antonio de la Torre, Barbara Lennie; Spain/France 2018, 121 min.
Even Antonio de la Torre can't save this far-fetched, fast-talking made for TV crime thriller that eventually...
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Jul 22, 2019
Dir: Lila Alviles | Cartol | Drama | Mexico | 90'
The Chambermaid plays the same thematic tune as two other festival winners this Summer: Golden Lion winner Roma and In...
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Jul 22, 2019
Dir.: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicolas Holt, Katherine Waterstone, Tuppence Middleton; USA 2017, 107 min.
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Town that dreaded Sundown) has adapted Michael Mitnick’s unconvincing...
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Jul 21, 2019
Dir.: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Documentary/Fiction; Thailand 2017, 75 min.
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy) has turned her attention toward the big taboo: death.
It may surprise you to learn that...
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