Tag: post-war

Little Amélie
or
The Character of Rain
(Amélie
et
la Métaphysique des Tubes)

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Post date February 5 2026
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or
The Character of Rain
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Directors – Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 77m ***** A Belgian diplomat’s baby daughter growing up in Japan comes to realise, by her third birthday, that she is not God – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2025-26, Academy Awards 2026, animosity, Annecy, Annecy 2026, baby, baby noises, beach, Belgian, Belgian chocolate, bereavement, between two cultures, birthday, bombing raid, books, Brussels, carp, catch up, Cathy Cerda, childhood, children's film, chocolate, comics, commemorating the dead, danger, daughter, departed spirit, diplomat, drowning, early years, earthquake, East and West, family trip, fellow god, Festival for the Month of Boys, first word, France, God, grandma, grandmothers and grandchildren, growing up, grown up situations, grumpy, Haylee Issembourg, housekeeper, housekeeper and employer, Isaac Schoumsky, Japan, Japan and Belgium, Japanese character, Laetitia Coryn, landlady, lantern festival, Liane-Cho Han, Little Amelie, Loïse Charpentier, Maïlys Vallade, Marc Arnaud, missing, monster, mothers and sons, names, naming, neighbour, ornamental gardens, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscar nominations 2025-26, Oscar nominations 2026, Oscars, Oscars 2025-26, Oscars 2026, parents and children, peering out, picture books, pond, post-war, rain, rescue, running, serenity, siblings, small child, survive, taste, The Character of Rain, three years old, toddler, transcendent, tube, two-and-a-half years old, vacuum cleaner, Victoria Grosbois, walking, war, wonder, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, write your name, WW2, Yokusai, Yumi Fujimori

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Godzilla Minus One
(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 14 2023
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(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – out on Netflix from Sunday, May 3rd 2026 World War Two, Pacific theatre. Unwilling […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

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The Girl
with the Needle
(Pigen med Nålen)

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Post date January 9 2025
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with the Needle
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Director – Magnus Van Horn – 2024 – Denmark, Sweden, Poland – Cert. 15 – 123m ***** A young Copenhagen woman’s attempts to escape poverty following the Great War lead her into a dark nightmare – Denmark’s entry for Best International Feature is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, January 10th In the […]

Tags 1919, abortion, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Ava Knox Martin, Benedikte Hansen, Besir Zeciri, Best International Feature, Best International Feature 2024-25, Best International Feature 2025, black & white, board and lodging, business fee, business owner, casual labour, circus, community, Denmark, destitute, dismissed, eviction, facial disfiguration, factory, factory owner, fairy tale, fired, First World War, foster parents, freak show, husbands and wives, Joachim Fjelstrup, knitting needle, lack of social provision, lodgings, M.I.A., Magnus Van Horn, Michal Dymek, mothers and children, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, Poland, post-war, proof of death, public bath house, rag trade, recurring nightmare, redundant, rich and poor, sacked, seamstress, social provision, Sweden, sweetshop, Trine Dyrholm, true crime, Vic Carmen Sonne, war, wet nurse, widow, widow’s supplement, women’s health, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

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Godzilla Minus One
/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
ゴジラ -1.0 / C)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 31 2024
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/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – now in black & white – out in UK cinemas from Friday, November 1st […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, black and white, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, minus color, minus colour, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

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Aimless Bullet
(Obaltan,
오발탄)

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Post date October 20 2024
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(Obaltan,
오발탄)
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Director – Yu Hyun-mok – 1961 – South Korea – 110m **** Former soldiers and others struggle with the effects of post-war economic depression in the newly constituted South Korea – plays in Echoes In Time | Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema which runs from Monday, October 28th until the end […]

Tags accountant, Aimless Bullet, angst, army officers, bank robbery, bar, censorship, Choi Mu-ryong, Choi Myeong-su, crime, cripple, demobbed soldiers, dentist, dictatorship, drinking, Echoes in Time, Echoes in Time Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema, economy depression, glass door, incomplete, Kim Jin-kyu, Korea, Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema, liar, LKFF, LKFF 2019, London Korean Film Festival, London Korean Film Festival 2019, low self-esteem, marriage, Moon Jeong-suk, movie star, movie stars, Mun Hye-ran, new shoes, newspaper seller, night, noir, post-war, pregnant, promise, prostitution, romance, Seo Ae-ja, siblings, South Korea, street, struggle, survival, taxi, thriller, tooth extraction, toothache, truant, unemployment, wife, work, Yu Hyun-mok

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The Small Back Room

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Post date May 28 2024
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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 […]

Tags across the hallway, advertising, alcohol, alcoholism, Allies, ATS, barman, black and white, bomb, bomb disposal, booze, boss, carriages, Chesil Beach, Christopher Challis, Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds Of Powell + Pressburger, cinematographer, civil servant, claustrophobia, clock, colleagues, conference rooms, corporal, Cyril Cusack, dance, dancehall, dancehalls, David Farrar technical, department, drama, Emeric Pressburger, explosion, faces, false leg, field radio independent producers, flat, flats, German, German expressionism, girlfriend, government, hands, head of department, indulge, interiors, Jack Hawkins, jazz band, Kathleen Byron, lab, leisure time, local, London, London Underground, low, Michael Gough, Michael Powell, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Milton Rosmer, minister, Nigel Balchin, novel, office politics, offices, pain, partner, pebble, post-war, Powell and Pressburger, pub, pubs, relationship, Renée Ascherson, research, research lab, restaurant, Salisbury Plain, scientist, Second World War, secretary, self-worth, Sid James, stoic, Ted Heath’s Kenny Baker Swing Group, temptation, test, thermos flask, ticking, tools, tube, UK, wartime, welfare, whisky, Whitehall, window, working life, workmen drilling, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, wrenches, WW2

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The Lavender Hill Mob

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Post date March 26 2024
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Director – Charles Crichton – 1951 – UK – Cert. U – 78m ***** A Bank of England employee stumbles upon the perfect means to rob his employer of the gold bullion he transports there on a daily basis– classic Ealing comedy is back out in a new 4k restoration in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

Tags 1950s, Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, alibi, ambush, Audrey Hepburn, back projection, Balmoral, bank clerk, Bank of England employee and employer, bank vault, breathlessness incompetent police, bureaucracy, burglar, car chase, casting metal, Charles Crichton, collision, comedy, cops and robbers, crime, criminals, crooks, downtrodden, Ealing comedy, Eiffel Tower, England, English schoolgirls, evidence, factory, falling into the river, faux respectability, fugitives, gang, gangster novels, giddy, gold bars, gold bullion, Guest House, heist, honest nobody, humour, industrial process, kaleidoscopic, landlady, Lavender Hill, lead and gold, lodgings, London, melt down, mistaken for a thief; bound and gagged, mob, national newspaper stories, nursery rhyme, Old Macdonald Had a Farm, Paris, plucky little hero, police and thieves, police cars, policemen on the beat, post-war, promotion, pronunciation, pursuit, radio, rebel against the system, rescued, Rio de Janeiro, robbery, safe cracker, salacious, schoolgirls, security van, self-advancement, Sidney James, smelt, smuggle, snatch and grab, spiral staircase, Stanley Holloway, T.E.B. Clarke, the missing piece, the perfect crime, tourist tat, UK, whimsy

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Shadow of Fire
(Hokage,
ほかげ)

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Post date February 18 2024
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(Hokage,
ほかげ)
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Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 95m **** A woman has drifted into prostitution, while a small boy struggles to survive in post-war Tokyo – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 between Friday, 2nd February and Sunday, 31st March An interior in the ruins […]

Tags #JFTFP24, algebra, ammunition, bayonet, collective trauma, cooking, dream, firebombing, handgun, Hiroki Kono, homelessness, human trafficking, imprisonment, Ireland's Japanese Film Festival, Ireland's Japanese Film Festival 2024, Japan, Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024, Japanese Film Festival Ireland, Japanese Film Festival Ireland 2024, JFF, JFF Ireland, JFF Ireland 2024, JPF, JPF 2024, JPF Touring Programme, kidnap, market, Mirai Moriyama, officer, officer and soldier, Oga Tsukao, P.O.W., post-war, prisoner, prisoner of war, prostitution, rank and file, rest, restless, Shinya Tsukamoto, Shuri, sleep, soldier, stall, textbook, Tokyo, trader, trauma, violence, whore

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Oppenheimer

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Post date July 21 2023
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Director – Christopher Nolan – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 180m ***** Drama about the father of the atomic bomb, shot with IMAX cameras and best watched in IMAX 70mm format – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 21st There are certain hallmarks to Christopher Nolan’s feature length movies. Since The Dark […]

Tags 1940s, 1950s, 70mm, academic, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, Albert Einstein, anti-Communist, aspect ratio, Benny Safdie, black and white, Casey Affleck, chain reaction, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, closed doors, code name, Communist, Communist Party, court, courtroom, Dylan Arnold, Einstein, Emily Blunt, enquiry, equations, explosion, figures, Florence Pugh, framing, general, government, husbands and wives, IMAX, IMAX 70mm, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Josh Hartnett, Jr., Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, mathematics, Matt Damon, mushroom cloud, Nazis, nuclear bomb, nuclear explosion, numeric, Oppenheimer, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, pattern, physics, post-war, project, puddle, quantum physics, quantum theory, R&D, raindrop, research and development, Robert Downey, scientist, Second World War, sex, theory, Tom Conti, top secret, Trinity, US, US government, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

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Ashes And Diamonds
(Popiół I Diament)

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Post date March 18 2023
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(Popiół I Diament)
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Director – Andrzej Wajda – 1958 – Poland – Cert. 12 – 103m ***** Two resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a Communist Party official on the last day of the Second World War – plays at the Phoenix Cinema East Finchley in conjunction with the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival at 18:00 on Sunday, March 19th, […]