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The Ice Tower
(La Tour de Glace)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 21 2025
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(La Tour de Glace)
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Director – Lucile Hadzihalilovic – 2025 – France, Germany, Italy – Cert. 15 – 117m ***** Midwinter. A homeless girl stumbles onto a film set where a notoriously difficult actress is shooting an adaptation of The Snow Queen – screens exclusively on BFI Player from Monday, January 12th Opening with microscopic images of of snowflakes and more […]

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The White Ribbon
(Das Weiße Band)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 13 2024
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(Das Weiße Band)

Director – Michael Haneke – 2009 – Austria, Germany – Cert. 15 – 144m ***** Reviewed for Third Way magazine to coincide with UK release date 13/11/2009. Plays in Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Friday, June 6th and on BFI Player from Thursday, September 11th 2025. Haneke’s first period drama for […]

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Hundreds
of Beavers

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Post date July 6 2024
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Director – Mike Cheslik – 2022 – US – Cert. 12 – 108m ***1/2 A ruined drinks purveyor reduced to hunting beavers (played by actors in onesies) attempts to kill the amount required to buy a trader’s daughter’s hand in marriage – visually astonishing slapstick comedy is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Tuesday, […]

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