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 20, 2025
Dir: Francois Ozon | France 2025 112’
Reviewed by Peter Herbert
THE STRANGER is amongst French auteur Francois Ozon’s most uncompromising work, embracing the demands of a literary French classic with the...
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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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Oct 17, 2025
Dir: Alexandre O. Philippe | Biopic 2025 76 min
Reviewed by Peter Herbert
Kim Novak’s Vertigo might also be described as Kim Novak’s Eyes as the film opens and closes with a...
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Oct 17, 2025
Dir: Jean Epstein | France Silent Drama 77’
This haunting tale of camaraderie and conflict amongst a Breton community during the early years of the last century comes from one of...
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Oct 15, 2025
Dir: Gastón Solnicki | Cast: Willem Dafoe, Lilly Lindner, Stephanie Argerich, Gastón Solnicki Writers: Julia Niemann, Gastón Solnicki | 78’
Those of us who know and love the mid-century charm of...
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Oct 15, 2025
Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton | Cast: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Google Withers, Mary Merrall, Frederick Valk | UK Horror 113'
Reviewed by Richard Chatten
The...
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