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Riefenstahl

Director – Andres Veiel – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** An unsettling, deep dive into the indisputable artistic talent, evasive personality and self-reconstructed memory of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl through her personal archive of some 700 boxes – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Sepia / yellow images. A […]

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Riefenstahl

Directed by Andres VeielCertificate 15115 minutesReleased 9 May There is something deeply depressing about the fact that one of the most talented female film directors who ever lived is also without a doubt also one of the most troubling. Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) is best known today for the documentaries Triumph of the Will (1935) and […]

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Kinds of Kindness

Director – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 144m *** A triptych of stories from rising star cult director Lanthimos performed by the same intimate, ensemble cast – baffling auteur exercise is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 28th Beyond a description of its structure – three separate […]

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Medusa
(Medusa)

Director – Anita Rocha de Silveira – 2021 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 127m *** Pro-purity, fundamentalist, Christian church girl band singer indoors by day; slut-shaming, Evangelical, vigilante group member outdoors by night… a woman is haunted by a facially disfigured figure from the past – out in UK cinemas also available on PVOD […]

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Fantastic Beasts:
The Secrets
Of Dumbledore

Director – David Yates – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 142m *** In the 1930s, Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore and others attempt to prevent the despotic wizard Grindlewald from seizing power in a wizard’s election in J.K. Rowling’s third Fantastic Beasts movie – out in cinemas on Friday, April 8th It’s difficult to […]

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Transgression
(Pagye,
파계)

Director – Kim Ki-young – 1974 – South Korea – 111m ***** Buddhist, monastic drama. Celibacy confronts carnal desire and a new senior monk must be chosen as the incumbent nears death. Free to view in the Korean Film Archive as part of Korean Film Nights Online: Trapped! The Cinema of Confinement (Friday, July 17th […]