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Köln 75
(Köln 75)

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Post date June 1 2026
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Director – Ido Fluk – 2025 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 112m ***** How an 18-year-old girl came to stage what would become the biggest selling jazz album in history – narrative feature is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 5th At a party honouring her career as a music promoter, 50-year-old Vera Brandes […]

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Broken English

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 18 2026
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Directors – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** Musician and cultural icon Marianne Faithfull is interviewed at length, and her life and artistic achievements examined from several angles – compelling documentary is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, March 20th Who is Marianne Faithfull? Given that, sadly, […]

Tags 1960s, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Loog Oldham, art, beat poet, Bob Dylan, brand, bright young thing, category, celebrity, choreography, cultural icon, culture, dance, dancer, documentary, drugs, drugs raid, epitaph, final years, friend, fur rug, George MacKay, girlfriend, Hal Willner, home, Iain Forsyth, interview, Jane Pollard, Keith Richards, life, manager, Marianne Faithfull, media, memory, mentor, Mick Jagger, Ministry, miscarriage, misogyny, music business, musician, news, Nick Cave, Not Forgetting, paparazzi, photographer, pigeonhole, poetry, police, pop culture, punk, Punk Rock, recording session, Redlands, rehab, rehearsal, relationships, Rolling Stones, sex, Sister Morphine, song lyrics, stage, suit and tie, Sussex, Thurston Moore, Tilda Swinton, Warren Ellis

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It’s Never Over,
Jeff Buckley

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 13 2026
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Director – Amy Berg – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 106m ***1/2 A look at the life of the hugely talented singer / songwriter whose career in the 1990s was cut short by his untimely death – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th It’s tempting to place Jeff Buckley among the all […]

Tags 28 years old, 30 years old, absent father, Amy Berg, autopsy, bass, Bob Dylan, café, career, classical music, Columbia Records, concert pianist, contract, death, documentary, girlfriend, Greenwich village, growing up, he swim, he was living on borrowed time, home movie, home movie footage, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Page, Joan as Policewoman, Joan Wasser, Led Zeppelin, Mary Guibert, Memphis, Miles Davis, Mississippi, morphine and heroin overdose, mother, music documentary, music festival, New York City, Nina Simone, Page and Plant, Rebecca Moore, record company, river, Robert Planet, rock and roll music casualties, rock music, Sin-é, singer, singer/songwriter, single parent, single parent mum, speaker, Tim Buckley, tributary, undertow, unfit father, untimely death, US, vibrations, Wolf River, work ethic, working tables, young hopeful

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A Complete Unknown

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 16 2025
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Director – James Mangold – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 141m ***** A feature narrative recreation of Bob Dylan’s career in New York up to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival gig where he switched acoustic guitar for electric – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 17th 1961. Carrying his acoustic guitar, complete […]

Tags “I woke up famous”, 1961, 1965, A Complete Unknown, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, acoustic and electric, acoustic guitar, afternoon political discussion groups, Al Kooper, album cover photographs, annual, artistic voice, backing band, bar to watch a gig, bedside, Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, Boyd Holbrook, boyfriend, catalyst, Columbia Records, composition, conservative, contract, cultural history, Edward Norton, Einstein, electric guitar, Elle Fanning, folk music, folk singer, gig, guitar, Highway 61 Revisited, hospital, immersive experience, immortality, James Mangold, Japanese-American, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Like a Rolling Stone, Monica Barbaro, New York, New York apartment, newer material, Newport Folk Festival, Newport Folk Festival 1965, nowhere to stay, old tunes, organiser, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, overnight celebrity, painte, Pete Seeger, political activism, popular music, pull the plug, quiet corner, reaching a wider market, recognised by fans, recording studio, recordings, rock and roll, romance, Scoot McNairy, set list, social change, standards, Sylvie Russo, talent, terminal illness, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Kinks, Timothée Chalamet, tipping point, Todd Haynes, unknown and celebrity, Woody Guthrie, You Really Got Me, youth, youth audience

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New Life

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 17 2024
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Director – John Rosman – 2023 – US – 85m ***1/2 Neither the widow nor the assassin pursuing her towards the Canadian border are quite what they seem – genre-bending thriller is out on digital in the UK The sound of a distressed woman. Now we see her (Hayley Erin) – her head is bleeding […]

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Exhibition on Screen:
Hopper:
an American Love Story

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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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