Category: Art

Benedetta

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 16 2021
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Director – Paul Verhoeven – 2021 – France – Cert. tbc – 131m ***** A 17th Century nun subject to religious visions embarks on a lesbian relationship with a novice – exclusively on MUBI from Friday, July 1st Christianity. The Church. Religion. Treat them the wrong way, and you can get into trouble. Horror The […]

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Eric Ravilious:
Drawn To War

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 26 2022
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Drawn To War
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Director – Margy Kinmonth – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 87m ***1/2 The career of the British watercolour artist tragically killed while serving as an official war artist in World War Two – now available to watch online following UK cinema release on Friday, July 1st 2022 The first official war artist to […]

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Benedetta

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 13 2022
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Sins of the flesh BenedettaDirected by Paul VerhoevenCertificate 18, 131 minutesReleased 15 April The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven revels in controversy… His latest work, Benedetta, is… sexually explicit, but also tackles religion within a historical context. It clearly has plenty of potential to offend. Benedetta is based on the story of the 17th-century Italian nun […]

Animation Art Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Escher:
Journey
Into Infinity
(Escher:
Het Oneindige
Zoeken)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 12 2021
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Journey
Into Infinity
(Escher:
Het Oneindige
Zoeken)

Director – Robin Lutz – 2018 – The Netherlands – Cert. PG – 81m ***** The life and work of graphic artist M.C. Escher is explored through his own images and words (read by Stephen Fry) – on UK/Ireland digital download platforms from Monday, October 18th – iTunes, Amazon, Sky Store, Curzon Home Cinema, Google […]

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Bill & Ted
Face The Music

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 16 2020
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Face The Music

Director – Dean Parisot – Writers – Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson – 2020 – US – Cert. PG – 91m **** Party on, dudes! The two friends return having failed over 25 years to write the song to unite all of humanity and prevent the universe unravelling – in cinemas from Wednesday, September 16th […]

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Tove

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Post date July 8 2021
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Creator of the Moomins ToveDirected by Zaida BergrothCertificate 12, 103 minutesReleased 9 July The Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known as the creator of the Moomins, a friendly family of trolls who live in Moominvalley, who appeared in her own books, newspaper strips and plays for children. The Moomins later spawned […]

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Opera

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Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Erick Oh – 2020 – South Korea – 9m ***** Compelling, Oscar-nominated schematic of a self-contained society’s infrastructure behaviour and movement of groups of people within it over a day and a night – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Short Films In Competition section – Official 4 This feels like […]

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Snotty Boy
(Rotzbub)

Directors – Santiago Lopez Jover, Marcus H. Rosenmüller – 2021 – Austria, Germany – 95m ***** A young artist with a predilection for large ladies with large breasts finds himself in confrontation with closet Nazi racists – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Official Competition section 1968, the small, rural Austrian town of […]

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Effie Gray

Director – Richard Laxton – 2014 – UK – Cert. 12a – 104m **** The eponymous heroine marries art critic John Ruskin who then fails to consummate their relationship – in Virtual Cinemas and on VoD from Monday, April 19th and BD/DVD Special Collector’s Edition from Monday, May 31st The real life story of Effie […]

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The Cowboy’s Flute
(Mu Di,
牧笛)

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Post date March 30 2021
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(Mu Di,
牧笛)

Directors – Qian Jiajun, Te Wei – 1963 – China – Cert. N/C U – 20m ***** A flute-playing forest boy loses then is reunited with his beloved water buffalo in the mountains. – available to rent online in the UK & Ireland as part of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio Retro in the Chinese […]