Director Steven Okazaki – 2015 – US – Cert. 12 – 80m ***** Currently streaming on BFI Player as part of Japan 2020. Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) is director Akira Kurosawa’s iconic star of his samurai movies Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. He’s the subject of three time Oscar-nominated documentary film maker Steven Okazaki’s useful documentary […]
Director – Director – Deon Taylor – 2019 – US – Cert. 15 – 108m ***** Now available to view online : scroll down for details. Right at the start of this, Naomie Harris is walking along a New Orleans street when she’s stopped and harassed by two cops. For no reason. Well, there is […]
Director – Dave Fleischer – 1936 – US – 16m – colour – Oscar nominated ***** Currently streaming on MUBI. A rare, two reeler, colour outing for the Fleischer brothers’ Popeye, this removes him from his usual urban environment to an island populated with fabulous monsters – the opening features snakes, lions, a dragon and […]
Director – Simon Bird – 2019 – UK – Cert. 12 – 86m **1/2 Currently streaming on VoD Librarian Sue Bagnold’s (Monica Dolan) husband Bob left her for another woman several years ago. Her teenage son Daniel (Earl Cave) is supposed to be going over to Florida to visit his dad this summer and meet […]
Director – Georges Schwizgebel – 2017 – Switzerland – 2m 26s ***** The Battle Of San Romano is the fourth of 13 Original Short Films in the Annecy Festival 2020’s selection for We Are One: A Global Film Festival. This film is based on the eponymous painting by Paulo Uccello in London’s National Gallery which has produced this […]
Director – Comfort Arthur – 2016 – Ghana – 3m 36s ***** In the programme Today, African Animation – A Tribute To The African Continent – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival hybrid and online editions This is structured around a reading of a poem by a girl whose mother gives her a Black Barbie […]
Director – Akira Kurosawa – 1954 – Japan – Cert. PG – 207m 207m + 5m intermission – Oscar nominated Seven samurai must defend a poor village of farmers from bandits in one of the greatest action movies ever made – – both released in cinemas in a brand-new, 70th anniversary, 4k restoration from Thursday, […]
Twenty shorts The Uncertain KingdomVarious UK directorsCertificate 15, 20 x ten minutes approximately*****Released online from 1 June: Amazon, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, and iTunes. Why watch one film when you can watch 20? The Uncertain Kingdom is an amazing collection of shorts covering various aspects of contemporary UK life before the Covid-19 […]