Month: October 2022

Living

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 8 2022
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Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 102m ***** Diagnosed with stomach cancer and given only months to live, a bureaucrat searches for something – anything – to give purpose to his hitherto meaningless life in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November […]

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Hilma

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 28 2022
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Director – Lasse Hallström – 2022 – Sweden – Cert. 12a – 119m **** Late in her life, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, today considered the world’s first abstract painter, remembers her life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 28th As Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (Lena Olin) takes a tram journey, she […]

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New World
(Sinsegye,
신세계)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 24 2022
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(Sinsegye,
신세계)
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Director – Park Hoon-jung – 2013 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 135m *** Following a gangster boss’ murder, an undercover cop is caught in the middle of the rival factions’ battle to take over the gang – screening Monday, October 24th, 19.00 at The Cinema Museum as part of a strand of films […]

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Emergency Declaration
(Bisang Seoneon,
비상선언)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 22 2022
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(Bisang Seoneon,
비상선언)
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Director – Han Jae-rim – 2021 – South Korea – 147m ***** A rogue biochemist smuggles a deadly virus onto a commerical flight and releases it, leaving those on board fighting for survival– from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) which runs in cinemas from Wednesday, October 19th to Sunday, October 30th At the […]

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Youn Yuh-jung films
available in late 2021…

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 21 2022
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available in late 2021…

LKFF (London Korean Film Festival): Woman Of Fire (Kim Ki-young, 1971), The Bacchus Lady (Lee Je-Yong, 2016), Canola (Chang, 2016), Ladies Of The Forest, Kim Cho-hee, 2016) Three films by Im Sang-soo: A Good Lawyer’s Wife (2003), The Housemaid (2010), Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness (2021). All three films feature a director Q&A. Korean […]

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Exhibition on Screen:
Hopper:
an American Love Story

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 18 2022
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Hopper:
an American Love Story
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Director – Phil Grabsky – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 94m ***** The story of American painter Edward Hopper, and how his artistic career was facilitated by his fellow artist wife Jo – originally out in UK cinemas on Tuesday, October 18th 2022, now available on home video (see bottom of review) The […]

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Emily

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2022
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Director – Frances O’Connor – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 130m varies between ** and **** An imagined account of how Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 14th The three Brontë sisters Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling), Emily (Emma Mackey), and Anne (Amelia Gething) live with their brother […]

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All That Breathes

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Post date October 7 2022
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Director – Shaunak Sen – 2022 – India – Cert. – 97m * Set against the backdrop of heavily polluted Delhi, Muslim siblings devote their time to healing the local species of bird that seems to get injured more than most: the black kite – plays in the BFI London Film Festival 2022 which runs […]

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All Is Vanity

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 10 2022
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Director – Marcos Mereles – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 72m * A photographer, an intern, a model and a make-up artist unite for a photography shoot that goes horribly wrong – out in cinemas on Friday, October 14th What went wrong, exactly,? asks the opening voice over. He’s referring to a day, […]

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Doctor Who Am I

Directed by Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa YuilleCertificate 12a, 80 minutesReleased in cinemas 27 October andDVD & Digital 28 November What is a church, and why do people attend it? This is a documentary about Doctor Who fandom and conventions. At no point does it suggest, at least not in so many words, that such gatherings […]