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Leonora
in the Morning Light
(Leonora
im Morgenlicht)

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Post date May 29 2026
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in the Morning Light
(Leonora
im Morgenlicht)
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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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Features Live Action Movies

Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

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Post date March 26 2026
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(Zwei Staatsanwälte)
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Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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Art Documentary Exhibitions Features Live Action Movies

Exhibition on Screen
Michelangelo
Love and Death

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Post date May 20 2025
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Love and Death
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Director – David Bickerstaff – 2017 – UK – Cert. U – 91m ***** Sixteenth Century Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo remains one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his overreaching ambition frequently proved his undoing – back out in UK cinemas to tie in with the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth from Tuesday, May […]

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Animation Features Movies

Chicken Run:
Dawn of the Nugget

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Post date December 8 2023
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Dawn of the Nugget
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Director – Sam Fell – Co-Director – Jeff Newitt – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 101m **** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Having escaped the farm for an island paradise, the chickens must break into and wreck a food processing factory masquerading as a holiday camp to lure unwitting […]

Animation Art Features Live Action Movies

Hilma

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Post date October 28 2022
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Director – Lasse Hallström – 2022 – Sweden – Cert. 12a – 119m **** Late in her life, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, today considered the world’s first abstract painter, remembers her life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 28th As Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (Lena Olin) takes a tram journey, she […]

Tags Adam Lundgren, Anna Björk, art, art school, artist, astronomy, Benny Box, bereavement, biology, canvas, Catherine Chalk, Clare Holman, death, depth, Edvard Munch, Emmi Tjernström, exhibition, geometry, hide and seek. Drawing, Hilma af Klint, interview panel, Jazzy De Lisser, Jens Hultén, Lasse Hallström, Lena Olin, Lily Cole, Lukas Loughran, Madame Blavatsky, Maeve Dermody, Martin Wallström, mathematics, nature, non-figurative art, ocean floor, painter, painting, patriarchy, Paulius Markevicius, Rebecca Calder, Rudolph Steiner, science, scientific enquiry, sexism, siblings, sisters, slit-scan, sounding, sounding weight, spiral, spiral staircase, spiritual, spiritual world, staircase, Stockholm, Swden, temple, Theosophy, Tom Wlaschiha, Tora Hallström, vision, Wassily Kandinsky