Director – Wataru Takahashi – 2025 – Japan – Cert. PG tbc – 90m ***** An obsessive becomes fixated on a woman he sees in a park – sweet, romantic drama plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June Giuseppe (voice: Masaya Sano) becomes obsessed […]
Director – Philippa Lowthorpe – 2025 – US, UK – Cert.12a – 115m ***** An academic grieving her recently deceased photojournalist father buys and trains a goshawk then turns in on herself – adaptation of bestselling memoir is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd Helen (Claire Foy) phones her dad to tell him she’s […]
Directors – Jeffrey Lam Sen & Antonio Tam – 2024 – Hong Kong, China – Cert. 15 – 84m ***1/2 The lives of a Christian pastor and his wife become intertwined with that of a youth who believes himself responsible for their teenage daughter’s suicide some years ago – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 14th For roughly its first half, this delivers a narrative […]
Director – Michael Haneke – 2005 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 15 – 117m ***1/2 Covertly delivered VHS videotapes suggest to an upper middle class family that they are being watched, and begin to tease out guilt for an incident in the husband’s past – the closing film of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, […]
Director – Michael Haneke – 2001 – Austria, France – Cert. 18 – 131m ***** A masochistic piano teacher with an abusive mother embarks on an affair with a young male student – the opening film of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Friday, June 6th and on BFI Player from Thursday, […]
Director – Jianjie Lin – 2024 – China – Cert. 15 – 99m **** A boy from a broken home starts spending more and more time with the family of a schoolmate, where the family isn’t quite as perfect as it initially appears… – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 21st A boy is […]
Directors – Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb – 2024 – Czechia, Slovakia, France – 105m***** The female gaze. An introvert woman finds love in an unlikely place where, it turns out, there are catches – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival A figure stands in interior darkness. Watching. […]
Directors – Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger – 1949 – UK – Cert. PG – 106m ***** In London during World War Two, a back room boffin and bomb disposal man struggles with alcoholism – 4K restoration played at BFI Southbank on Tuesday, May 28th prior to release on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital on Monday, June […]
Director – Yuzura Tachikawa – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 120m ***** Three 18-year-olds form a jazz band with the aim of playing at Tokyo’s top jazz club – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 31st and Thursday, February 1st Before this property was a movie – an animated movie – it […]
Director – David Lynch – 1977 – US – Cert. 15 – 89 mins ***** A look at where Eraserhead came from – and where its weirdness led. First published in 1996. The current vogue for Special Editions and Director’s Cuts prompts David Lynch to rerelease Eraserhead with a Dolby Stereo sound remix. The pre-existing […]