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Son
Of The White Mare
(Fehérlófia)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** Based on Hungarian folk legends, the story of three sons of the white mare who must free three princesses from their dragon husbands and restore the kingdom from chaos – from the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, […]

Animation Features Movies

The Glassworker
(Sheesha Gar,
شیشہ گ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 25 2024
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Director – Usman Riaz – 2024 – Pakistan, Spain – Cert. 12a – 98m ***** The son of a pacifist glassblower learning his father’s trade falls for the violin-playing daughter of an army colonel in wartime – complex, anti-war drama from the 2024 Annecy International Animation Festival in the Contrechamps section, released in Pakistan on […]

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Art Documentary Exhibitions Features Live Action Movies

Exhibition on Screen
Michelangelo
Love and Death

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 20 2025
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Michelangelo
Love and Death
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Director – David Bickerstaff – 2017 – UK – Cert. U – 91m ***** Sixteenth Century Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo remains one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his overreaching ambition frequently proved his undoing – back out in UK cinemas to tie in with the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth from Tuesday, May […]

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Animation Art Exhibitions Movies

LAIKA
FRAME x FRAME

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 19 2024
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FRAME x FRAME
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Pic: Toby Lewis Thomas, courtesy LAIKA and BFI

***** Exhibition shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) accompanied by the Stop Motion animation season including all five LAIKA feature films and much, much more In the best part of two decades, US-based Laika Studios – named after the […]

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Animation Features Movies

Son
Of The White Mare
(Fehérlófia)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 6 2023
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Of The White Mare
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Director – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** The Hungarian animated epic Son Of The White Mare (1981) is one of the great, largely unknown treasures of animation, if not of cinema. Its late director Marcell Jankovics (1941-2021) made a number of shorts and commercials before his two features […]