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Art Features Live Action Movies

Leonora
in the Morning Light
(Leonora
im Morgenlicht)

Directors – Thor Klein, Lena Vurma – 2025 – Germany, Romania, Mexico, UK – Cert. 15 – 103m ** In Mexico, France, Spain and the England of her childhood, Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington must confront her personal demons – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 29th Deserted hillsides, a sliver of a road, eventually a tiny red […]

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Ran
(乱)

Director – Akira Kurosawa – 1985 – Japan, France – Cert. 15 – 162m ***** Back out in cinemas this Friday to commemorate its 40th anniversary. — Jeremy Clarke on Akira Kurosawa’s live action epic. Ran is Akira Kurosawa’s remarkable 1985 free adaptation of King Lear. More than any other Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa […]

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Enys Men

Director – Mark Jenkin – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** A lady environmentalist working on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast becomes subject to powerful, localised forces from the area’s past – out on UK Blu-ray/DVD combi and on BFI Player on Monday, May 8th NB The title is pronounced […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

The Mad Fox
aka
Love, Thy Name
Be Sorrow
(Koiya Koi
Nasuna Koi,
恋や恋なすな恋)

Director – Tomu Uchida – 1962 – Japan – Cert. PG – 109m ***** On MUBI from Tuesday, April 4th; also Amazon Prime (rental) and Arrow Channel The second Tomu Uchida film to receive a Blu-ray release after the black and white Bloody Spear At Mount Fuji (1955) is the colour The Mad Fox a.k.a. Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (1962). […]

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Mother Night

Director – Keith Gordon – 1996 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m ***** In this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, a former Nazi propagandist awaits trial in Israel for war crimes – retail VHS review from Home Entertainment, 1997 From his Israeli prison cell where he must compose his memoirs while awaiting trial for […]

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Dance Features Live Action Movies

Climax

Director – Gaspar Noé – 2018 – France – Cert. 18 – 97m ***** Uppers and downers – either way blood flows. Arthouse enfant terrible Noé combines technical skill and singular focus with some of the most spectacular dancing ever put on film to produce a dark and challenging vision of hell on earth – […]