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Yes, Madam!
(Huang Jia Shi Jie,
皇家师姐)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 12 2022
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(Huang Jia Shi Jie,
皇家师姐)
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Director – Corey Yuen – 1985 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 93m ***1/2 Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock’s star debut, in which they play two plain-clothes, kickboxing Hong Kong cops – on Blu-ray from Monday, December 12th 2002 and now part of Art of Action, a major UK-wide season celebrating the artistry of […]

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Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Agent
of Happiness

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 12 2024
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of Happiness
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Directors – Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó – 2023 – Bhutan, Hungary – 94m **** A civil servant travels around Bhutan assessing individual people’s happiness even as his personal life begs the questions whether he, himself, is truly happy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th Judging by the opening montage of cloudy and […]

Tags 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, agent, Amber Gurung. Architect, Arun Bhattarai, assess, Australia, bathing, Bhutan, chart, citizenship, community, conducting surveys, conversation, couple, divorced, Dorottya Zurbó, drink, ethnic minorities, family, gender identity, GNH, Gross National Happiness, happiness, Happiness Index, Happiness Level, how many cows, Hungary, indigenous, interview, king, married, measure, motorcycle, nature, Nepali, nightclub, passport, personal life, PÖFF, PÖFF 2024, PÖFF 28, policy, politics, professional class, public baths, questions, racism, seeing each other, singer, soothsayer, study, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, three wives, travesty of justice

Features Live Action Movies

Opponent
(Motståndaren)

Director – Milad Alami – 2023 – Sweden, Norway – Cert. 15 – 119m ***1/2 Two asylum seekers – an Iranian pro-wrestler and his pianist wife – are confronted with inhospitable Scandiniavian hotel accommodation and state bureaucracy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 12th. An ominous pulsing, thumping soundtrack. Wearing training kit, an […]

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Io Capitano
(Io Capitano)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2024
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(Io Capitano)
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Director – Matteo Garrone – 2023 – Italy – Cert. 12a – 121m ***** Two teenage Senegalese boys set out on a journey to Europe and a better life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 5th Garrone’s earlier features (Gomorrah, 2008; Tale of Tales, 2015; Dogman, 2018; Pinocchio, 2019) have a particular, muted […]

Tags #GFF24, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, accident, Africa, Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film 2024, boat, bribe, builder, building, building site, building work, construction, crossing, Dakar, death, Europe, fake passport, French, Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival 2024, immigration, Italy, kidnap, Libya, Libyan mafia, mafia, Mali, market trader, Matteo Garrone, Mediterranean, migrant, migration, money, Moustapha Fall, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, passport, payment, people smuggling, policeman, Sahara, Senegal, Seydou Sarr, smartphone, torture, trafficker, trafficking, transport, travel, Tripoli, walking, widow

Features Live Action Movies

Lost In The Stars
(Xiao Shi De Ta,
消失的她)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2023
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(Xiao Shi De Ta,
消失的她)
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Directors – Cui Rui, Liu Xiang – 2022 – China – Cert. 15 – 121m ***** A man’s wife vanishes and is replaced by an imposter; when no-one believes him, he hires a hotshot lawyer to find out what’s happening and get his real wife back – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 14th […]

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No Bears
(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 8 2022
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(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)
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Director – Jafar Panahi – 2022 – Iran – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** An Iranian film director banned from leaving his country rents a house close to the border with Turkey, in which country he is remotely directing a film – available on the following rental streaming services from Monday, March 27th: Amazon Prime, […]

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No Bears
(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 1 2022
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(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)
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A repressive Islamist regime No BearsDirected by Jafar PanahiCertificate 12a, 106 minutesReleased 11 November The Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose son Panar made the excellent road movie Hit the Road) has been in trouble with the country’s repressive Islamist regime for some time and earlier this year was given six years in prison. The campaign […]

Animation Features Movies

The Crossing
(La Traversée)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 14 2021
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(La Traversée)

Director – Florence Miailhe – 2021 – France, Germany, Czechia – 84m ***** Two children undergo a series of adventures as they flee an ethnic cleansing pogrom in this animated feature made with oil paint on glass – from the BFI London Film Festival 2021 which runs from Wednesday, October 6th to Sunday, October 17th […]