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Resurrection
(Kuangye Shidai,
狂野时代,
lit. Wild Times)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 13 2026
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(Kuangye Shidai,
狂野时代,
lit. Wild Times)
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Director – Bi Gan – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 160m **** An authority figure pursues a Deliriant – a man who escapes the authorities and his own social responsibilities by dreaming – through a period of a hundred years – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th This opens with a long series of intertitles […]

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Paul & Paulette
Take a Bath

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 5 2025
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Take a Bath
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Director – Jethro Massey – 2024 – France – Cert. 15 – 109m **** A young American photographer in Paris runs into a girl obsessed with the darker side of French history – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 5th Opening with sepia-toned engravings then photos depicting the last couple of centuries of Paris, […]

Tags Adolf Hitler, American in Paris, American photographer, Bataclan killer, bedroom, bullet holes, camera, Catholic, church, coming out, Communards, communion wafers, courtyard, crime, crime scene, criminal, Elvis Presley, engravings, Europe, execution, exhibition, fairytale, Fanny Cottençon, firing squad, France, Gabrielle Bompard, Gilles Graveleau, hair, haircut, history, Hitler, Hitler’s apartment, James Gerard, Jérémie Galiana, Jesus Christ, Jethro Massey, Kim Jong Un, kneeling, Laurence Vassiere, lesbian, LGTBTQI+, Margot Joseph, Marie Benati, Marie-Antoinette, Marilyn Monroe, move out, murderer, old flame, parents, parents and children, parents and daughters, Paris, Paris Commune, Paul & Paulette Take a Bath, pedestal, Pentax camera, photo shoot, real estate, relationship, romance, Salzburg, scissors, suit, The Bloody Trunk Affair, transubstantiation

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The Shrouds

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 3 2025
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2024 – Canada, France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** An entrepreneur who has created graveyard corpse-viewing technology to cope with his late wife’s death by cancer finds his inner world disrupted when his creation is vandalised and hacked – The Shrouds is out on UK digital from Monday, August […]

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2000 Meters to Andriivka

Director – Mstyslav Chernov – 2025 – Ukraine – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A small Ukrainian Army unit advances through a narrow strip of war-scarred forest to recapture a village from the occupying Russians – documentary from the makers of 20 Days in Mariupol is out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, August […]

Tags 20 Days in Mariupol, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, 2023 Ukrainain offensive, 21st century, 3rd Assault Brigade, Adriivka, advance, Alex Babenko, Andriivka, army, army unit, Associated Press, Bahkmut, camera, children, civilian lives, colleague, crawling on all fours, dead, documentary, East Ukraine, fields, focus the mind, forest, geography, gothic horror, heads down, helmet cams, heroic, hometown, horror of war, human cost, human experience, impassable, injured, Kharkiv, land, march in honour, marchers, military, mines, mission, Mstyslav Chernov, objective, occupying, raise the flag, recapture, relax, Russians, senseless waste of human life, slow advance, soldiers, Spectre, stop moving, talk to camera, technology, terrain, Ukraine, uninhabitable, village, war, war dead, war up close and personal, war-scarred, warfare, why people fight to defend, wiped off the map, wives, women, young families

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Perfect Days

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 23 2024
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Director – Wim Wenders – 2023 – Germany, Japan – Cert. PG – 123m ***** A cleaner for The Tokyo Toilet Company takes great pleasure in his everyday routine – out on UK Blu-ray and DVD from Monday, June 10th There is a pecking order in society. Right at the lowest level is anything to […]

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Fantastic Machine
(original title:
And the King Said,
What a Fantastic Machine)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 18 2024
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(original title:
And the King Said,
What a Fantastic Machine)
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Directors – Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck – 2023 – Norway, Sweden, Denmark – Cert. 15 – 88m **** An idiosyncratic history of moving image technology and its increasingly pervasive role in human society, from camera obscura to smartphones and social media – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 19th To understand what this […]

Tags 1828, 1930s, 2D animation, Allied cameramen, animation, Axel Danielson, bodies in motion, British, business model, camera, camera obscura, ceremony, chrono-photographer, cinematography, copyright, Death Camps, Denmark, Edweard Muybridge, emotional trigger, entertainment, escape, Étienne-Jules Marey, everyday life, evil, fake news, fantasy, first contact, France, funding films, Georges Méliès, Germany, history, horse gallop, human, human and animal, human eye, idiosyncratic, image, immorality, inverted image, Leni Riefenstahl, light, locomotion, Lumière brothers, magical, Maximilien Van Aertryck, mid-nineteenth century, MOI, moving, moving image, Nazi, Norway, optical, optics, parades, Paris, persistence of vision, pervasive, photographer, photography, pinhole, pinhole camera, pioneer, producer, rolling news channels, self-broadcasting, self-filming, show, showmanship, Sidney Bernstein, smartphone. social media, society, studio, Sweden, technology, Ted Turner, television, The Coronation of Edward VII, the home, toddler, trigger, TV series, US, viral video, Voyager spacecraft, YouTube

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The Teachers’ Lounge
(Das Lehrerzimmer)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 11 2024
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(Das Lehrerzimmer)
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Director – Ilker Çatak – 2023 – Germany – Cert. 12a – 98m **** 1/2 A new teacher at a school where petty thefts have been taking place for some time makes some bad decisions which put her in a very difficult place – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 12th Schoolboy Lukas (Okar […]

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Squaring The Circle:
(The Story Of
Hipgnosis)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 10 2023
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(The Story Of
Hipgnosis)
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Director – Anton Corbijn – 2022 – UK – Cert. – 101m ***** The story of the visual creatives behind album sleeves, for Pink Floyd and others, who revolutionised the field from the late 1960s and through the 1970s – now out on Blu-ray/DVD combo and various streaming services plus BFI Player following its release […]

Tags 10cc, 1960s, 1970s, 6 Denmark Street, A Saucerful Of Secrets, album, album sleeve, animals, anti-establishment, Anton Corbijn, art, artist, Atom Heart Mother, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, bankrupt, bankruptcy, Battersea Power Station, Beatles, boring, burning man, Cambridge, camera, Coil, cow, darkroom, David Gilmour, drugs, Elegy, Emerson, fire, Genesis, giant pig, Giant’s Causeway, Graham Gouldman, hand-coloured photograph, Hipgnosis, Houses Of The Holy, Humphrey Ocean Roger Dean, iconic, illustration, Ireland, Jill Furmanovsky, Jimmy Page, Keith Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Led Zeppelin, Legerton Court, light, London, LP, LP sleeve, LSD, manager, monolith, music video, Nick Mason, Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Peter Christopherson, Peter Gabriel, Peter Grant, photographer, photography, Pink Floyd, presence, prism, record, record sleeve, red balls, refraction, Repulsion, Rick Wright, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Roman Polanski, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, space rock, statue, Storm Thorgerson, stuntman, The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Nice, The Original Soundtrack, Throbbing Gristle, throwaway, Tottenham Court Road, UK, Wings Greatest, Wish You Were Here

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Brainwashed:
Sex-Camera-Power

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2023
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Sex-Camera-Power
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Director – Nina Menkes – 2022 – US – Cert. 18 – 107m ***1/2 A lecture on how movies treat male and female bodies differently, augmented with interviews from female directors, actresses, critics and others, using numerous film clips – on BFI Player from Monday, July 17th This is a film based on a lecture […]

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The Fabelmans

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Post date January 27 2023
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Director – Steven Spielberg – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 151m ***** The life and times of a young boy and amateur US movie maker whose extended family harbours an unexpected secret – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 27th Throughout his career, Spielberg has continued to surprise. He’s made big blockbusters […]