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Watership Down
(new 4K restoration)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 25 2024
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(new 4K restoration)
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Directed by Martin RosenCertificate PG92 minutesReleased 25 October Reviewed for Reform magazine. Now fully restored in a new 4K restoration, this 1978 tale of rabbits on the run proved that an animated film need be neither made by Disney nor sugar-coated for children. Watership Down, although a children’s film, came from the producer of the […]

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SCALA!!!
Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 2 2024
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Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits
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Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]

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Fez Summer ’55
(” 55″ خمسة وخمسين)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 17 2023
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(” 55″ خمسة وخمسين)
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Director – Abdelhai Laraki – 2023 – Morocco – Cert. none – 114m **** An 11-year-old boy navigates the rooftops of a Moroccan city while insurgents plot the overthrow of French colonialists in private courtyards and sometimes confront the occupying police in the streets – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn […]

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Memories To Choke On,
Drinks
To Wash Them Down
(Ye Heung,
Yuen Yeung,
Sham Shui Po,
夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 9 2021
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Drinks
To Wash Them Down
(Ye Heung,
Yuen Yeung,
Sham Shui Po,
夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗)
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Directors – Leung Ming Kai, Kate Reilly – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ – 77m **1/2 Four stories from contemporary Hong Kong comprise three dramas and a closing documentary segment – plays Focus Hong Kong 2023 on Saturday, June 24th at 3.30pm An anthology of four stories from contemporary Hong Kong – […]

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No.7 Cherry Lane
(Jiyuantai Qihao,
繼園臺七號)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 15 2020
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(Jiyuantai Qihao,
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Director – Yonfan – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12A – 125m ***** The tutor of an 18-year-old girl falls for her mother who hired him against the background of the 1967 protest marches in Hong Kong – plays in the Annecy Animation Festival 2022 which is taking place in a 100% on-site edition […]

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Free Guy

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Post date August 12 2021
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Director – Shawn Levy – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 115m ***1/2 A non-player character in a mayhem-riddled video game decides to take matters into his own hands after meeting the girl of his dreams – out in cinemas on Friday, August 13th Guy (sic) (Ryan Reynolds) works in Free City. In a […]

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A Witness
Out Of The Blue
(Fan Zui Xian Chang,
犯罪現場)

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Post date February 9 2021
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Out Of The Blue
(Fan Zui Xian Chang,
犯罪現場)

Director – Fung Chi-Keung – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ – 104m **** When a member of a gang of jewel thieves is found dead, the murder suspect may not be the obvious person – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 from Tuesday, February 9th to Monday, […]