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Riefenstahl

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2025
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Director – Andres Veiel – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** An unsettling, deep dive into the indisputable artistic talent, evasive personality and self-reconstructed memory of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl through her personal archive of some 700 boxes – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Sepia / yellow images. A […]

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The Extraordinary
Miss Flower

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 8 2025
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Miss Flower
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Directors – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2024 – UK – Cert. 12a – 73m **** A suitcase containing love letters, telexes and photographs found after her death, which inspired songs from singer Emilíana Torrini, becomes the key to a woman’s interior life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Every so often, […]

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Riefenstahl

Directed by Andres VeielCertificate 15115 minutesReleased 9 May There is something deeply depressing about the fact that one of the most talented female film directors who ever lived is also without a doubt also one of the most troubling. Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) is best known today for the documentaries Triumph of the Will (1935) and […]

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I’m Still Here
(Ainda Estou Aqui)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 21 2025
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(Ainda Estou Aqui)
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Director – Walter Salles – 2024 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 137m **** When a family man is disappeared by Brazil’s military dictatorship, his wife must fight for justice while raising their family of five children alone – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 21st 1971. The middle of Brazil’s 1964-85 military dictatorship. […]

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The Old Man
and the Land

Director – Nicholas Parish – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** As he works on the land, an aging farmer hears his two adult children argue about the future of the family farm – plays UK cinemas from Friday, September 20th 2024, with previews from Monday, September 16th following its premiere in […]

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Hollywoodgate

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 14 2024
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Director – Ibrahim Nash’at – 2023 – US, Germany – Cert. 12a – 89m **** A Western documentary shot with the approval of the Taliban showing the eponymous air base in which the Americans abandoned large stocks of military hardware – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 16th An extraordinary exercise in both journalism […]

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Wilding

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 14 2024
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Isabella Tree, as played by Rhiannon Neads

Director – David Allen – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 75m ***** How Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell closed down their failing farm and instead let nature run wild to regenerate the land’s depleted biodiversity – inspiring documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady […]

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Catching Fire:
The Story of
Anita Pallenberg

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 17 2024
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The Story of
Anita Pallenberg
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Directors – Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 113m ***1/2 The chaotic life of the archetypal rock chick, told through her own words and those of her children – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 17th After her death in 2017, Anita Pallenberg’s two surviving children Marlon and […]

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Disconnect Me

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 1 2024
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Director – Alex Lykos – 2023 – Australia – Cert. 12 – 87m ***1/2 A man attempts to live for 30 days without the use of his smartphone, tablet or computer – out on digital from Monday, April 1st This documentary opens with an advisory to keep your phone handy during the screening, as you […]

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Anselm
(Anselm
– Das Rauschen
Der Zeit)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 11 2023
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(Anselm
– Das Rauschen
Der Zeit)
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Director – Wim Wenders – 2023 – Germany – Cert. PG – 93m **** An exploration of the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer and the influences which lie behind it – 3D documentary plays the 2023 London Film Festival which runs from Wednesday, October 4th until Sunday, October 15th, and will be out in […]