Film
The Bad and the BeautifulWednesday, 18 April 2012
In the golden age of the movies that was 1952, The Bad and the Beautiful must have seemed quite a radical attack on the industry. A gorgeous opening sequence suggests that we are to be treated to an unadulterated love letter to the pictures: the... Read more... |
BFI celebrates ‘The Genius of Hitchcock’ in a major new retrospectiveWednesday, 18 April 2012
Launched to the press today with an hour-long presentation and Hitchcockian lunch, the British Film Institute proudly unveiled a fittingly hefty programme of screenings, events, exhibitions and publications celebrating the work of Alfred Hitchcock... Read more... |
Dickens and RLS manuscripts are backTuesday, 17 April 2012The manuscripts of Our Mutual Friend and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde return to London for the first time in over a century to form part of an exhibition exploring the influence of place on British writing.The manuscripts will be loan from New York’s... Read more... |
Quest to meet Metallica's drummerTuesday, 17 April 2012In June the film Mission to Lars will be given a brief cinema release before appearing on DVD. It documents the saga of journalist Kate Spicer and film-maker William Spicer setting out to have their brother Tom, who suffers from a serious autism-... Read more... |
Northern Lights public film project launchesTuesday, 17 April 2012Budding Scottish filmmakers are being called upon to contribute to the making of a feature-length documentary film about life in the country.With a nod to Kevin MacDonald's Life in a Day project, Northern Lights is seeking the public's "personal... Read more... |
Argentine Film FestivalTuesday, 17 April 2012
A couple of years ago a retrospective season for the BFI sought to reflect the filmmaking renaissance across South America that started at the end of the 1990s, and simply hasn’t stopped. Freed from the shackles of dictatorship and economic hardship... Read more... |
DVD: Despair/I Only Want You To Love MeTuesday, 17 April 2012
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the wunderkind of New German Cinema, worked at a prodigious rate. By the time of his death in 1982, aged just 37, he’d made over 40 feature films and directed over half as many stage plays. He also made films specially... Read more... |
Two Years at SeaMonday, 16 April 2012Film about a loner who lives in the remote Scottish Highlands. A winner at Venice. Dir: Ben Rivers. Cast: Jake Williams. Read more... |
Silent HouseMonday, 16 April 2012Father and daughter suffer horrific attack in their remote rural home. Horror. Dir: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau. Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer. Trailer: Read more... |
Monsieur LazharMonday, 16 April 2012An Algerian immigrant replaces a teacher who has died. While the class mourns, he has demons of his own. French. Dir: Phillippe Falardeau. Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nelisse, Emilien Neron. Trailer: Read more... |
Angel & TonyMonday, 16 April 2012Modest but touching French romance. A troubled woman returns home to a Normandy fishing village and meets a lonely fisherman via an ad. Not to be confused with Le Havre. Director: Alix Delaporte. Cast: Clothilde Hesme, Gregory Gadebois, Evelyne Didi... Read more... |
Le Quai des BrumesMonday, 16 April 2012Re-release of classic film from the main who made Les Enfants du Paradis. Dir: Marcel Carne. Cast: Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur Read more... |
