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Schindler’s List

Director – Steven Spielberg – 1993 – US – Cert. 15 – 195m ***** World War Two allows failed Czech industrialist Schindler to come into his own as he saves Jews from Aushwitz by employing them as slave labour in his factories– out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 18th 1994 Unsuccessful Czech businessman Oskar […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 1993-4, Academy Awards 1994, Auschwitz, Ben Kingsley, black and white, Brinnlitz, businessman, capital, commandant, concentration camp, Czech, death camp, Embeth Davidtz, enterprise, extermination, factory workers, financiers, German Army, Germany, ghetto, gravestones, herding, hiding place, Holocaust, inmates, investors, Janusz Kaminski, Jew, Jewish, Jewish heritage, Krakow, latrines, Liam Neeson, low cost, Nazi Party, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 1993-4, Oscars 1994, Oskar Schindler, Party member, persecution, Plasnow, Poland, pots and pans, Ralph Fiennes, red coat, ruthless, saving lives, Schindler's List, Second World War, shooting, Steven Spielberg, tombstone, trains, transportation, US, workers, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Animation Features Movies

The Boy And The Heron
(Kimitachi Wa
Do Ikiru Ka,
君たちはど
う生きるか,
lit.
How Do You Live?)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 24 2023
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(Kimitachi Wa
Do Ikiru Ka,
君たちはど
う生きるか,
lit.
How Do You Live?)
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Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** During WorldWar Two, a boy bereaved of his mother moves to the countryside with his businessman father where a heron lures him into another dimension to rescue his vanished stepmother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 26th Directors, eh? […]

Tags 2D animation, a world in balance, absent father, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, Aimyon, aircraft manufacture, animal, animation, anime, Anjli Mohindra, architect, arms manufacture, arms trade, Art Malik, bereavement, bird, bombing, boy, child’s building blocks, Christian Bale, countryside, Dave Bautista, demons, disappear, escape, factory, fantasy, fathers and sons, fire, floating, Florence Pugh, Gemma Chan, granduncle, grannies, granny, Grey Heron, Hayao Miyazaki, heron, hierarchy, hospital, hospital fire, How Do You Live?, Japan, Japanese home front, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Karen Fukuhara, Ko Shibashi, Luca Padovan, maids, Mark Hamill, Masaki Suda, militarism, monster, mothers and sons, old crone, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, other dimension, other world, parakeet, quest, reappear, Robert Pattinson, rural, rural and urban, Sacha Dhawan, Second World War, servants, Sham Ali, Shohei Hino, Soma Santoki, spirit, spirit beings, Studio Ghibli, Takuya Kimura, Tony Jayawardena, tower, toy building blocks, urban, vanish, warplane, warplane manufacture, Willem Dafoe, workers, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yoshino Kimura

Features Live Action Movies

Light Falls

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Post date November 15 2023
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Director – Phedon Papamichael – 2023 – Georgia, Greece, Albania, Germany – Cert. none – 90m***** A Greek island, a lesbian couple from L.A., migrant Albanian workers, a racist cop, and an abandoned brutalist hotel… What could possibly go wrong? – terrific thriller premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

Tags 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, abandoned, Albania, Albanian, blow job, brothers, brutalism, cop, couple, Critics' Picks Competition, displaced, Elene Makharashvili, Elensio, fleece, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greek island, harassment, hotel, insulated, Jurgen Marku, L.A., lesbian, Makis Papadimitriou, migrant, migrant Albanian workers, Nini Nebieridze, Phedon Papamichael, PÖFF, PÖFF 2023, PÖFF 2023: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF 27, PÖFF 27: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF: Critics' Picks Competition, privilege, racism, rape, Silvio Goskova, Tallinn, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023: Critics' Picks Competition, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, tourist, tourists, underclass, Vesper, violence, workers, youths

Features Live Action Movies

The Good Boss
(El Buen Patrón)

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Post date July 14 2022
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(El Buen Patrón)
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Director – Fernando León de Aranoa – 2021 – Spain – Cert. 15 – 116m ***1/2 With a prestigious business competition coming up, a factory boss must keep the judges from stumbling upon his personal and corporate dirty laundry – out in cinemas on Curzon Home Cinema on Friday, July 15th Any day now, the […]

Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

The Witches
Of The Orient
(Les Sorcières
De L’Orient)

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Post date July 20 2021
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Of The Orient
(Les Sorcières
De L’Orient)

Director – Julien Faraut – 2021 – France, Japan – Cert. U – 100m ***** A look through a prism of anime and archive footage at the Japanese women’s volleyball team that won the 1964 Olympics – out in cinemas and online in the UK and Ireland on Friday, July 16th You don’t really expect […]

Tags 1950s, 1960s, 1962 volleyball championship, 2010s, 2D animation, Akira Mochizuki, anime, Attack No.1, Berlin, company, cycle, Eiji Okabe, factory, film library, France, French Sports Institute, Fumio Kurokawa, Germany, gym, gym training, Hirobumi Daimatsu, individual not group, INSEP, Japan, Jason Lytle, journalism, Julien Faraut, Kaai Okada, live action animation composite, Mari Nakayama, Masae Kasai, Nichibo Kaizuka, Nobuko Shibuya, Olympics, Olympics 1936, Olympics 1952, Olympics 1964, Olympics 2021, Pathé, PE instructor, Portishead, Pravda, President Johnson, Russia, Shiro Jinbo, sleep deprivation, spider witch, sport, sports anime, textile, textile factory, textile industry, The Sign Is V, training, volleyball, volleyball anime, witch, witchcraft, workers, Yoshitaro Kataoka

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Sound Of Nomad:
Koryo Arirang

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Post date August 8 2021
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Koryo Arirang

Director – Kim So-young (as Kim Jeong) – 2017 – South Korea – 87m **** How an indigenous theatre company kept the culture of the Koryo people alive after they were deported by the Soviet authorities from Far East Russia to Kazakhstan in 1937 – in the documentary season: Korean Film Nights: In Transit presented […]

Tags 1930s, 1937, actress, adoption, alcohol, alcohol dependency, alcoholic, alcoholism, Almaty, ankles, Arirang, Arirang Ensemble Of Koryo, audience, Beijing Treaty 1860, Central Asia, Choi Tatiana, Choson, Chun Hyang, corpses, COVID-19, cultural traditions, culture, death toll, deportation, drunk, farm workers, history, in transit, janggu, Joseon, Kazakhstan, Khazakhstan, Korea, Koryo, Koryo people, Koryo Theatre, Kyzylorda, Lee Hamdeok, life, LKFF, LKFF 2021, London Korean Film Festival, London Korean Film Festival 2021, loss, Maritime Province, memorial, mothers and daughters, orphan, pandemic, Park Maya, people’s actress, performance, plays, projection, rail, rice fields, Russia, shooting, singer, songs, South Korea, Soviet, Soviet Union, spies, suicide, Tashkent, tragedy, train, trilogy, Ushtobei, Uzbekistan, Vladivostock, walk, Winter, workers

Animation Art Movies Shorts

Opera

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Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Erick Oh – 2020 – South Korea – 9m ***** Compelling, Oscar-nominated schematic of a self-contained society’s infrastructure behaviour and movement of groups of people within it over a day and a night – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Short Films In Competition section – Official 4 This feels like […]

Tags 24 hours, 2D animation, a day and a night, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2020-21, Academy Awards 2021, after hours, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2021, arts, behaviour, Best Animated Short, birth, brothel, bureaucracy, capital punishment, children playing, daily renewal, daily ritual, death, deity, dystopia, education, elite, entertainment, Erick Oh, food production, groups of people, hierarchy, Hieronymus Bosch, infrastructure, judiciary, Korea, Leonardo da Vinci, marriage, masses, Metropolis, mining, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2020-21, Oscars 2021, religious rituals, restaurant, ruler, schematic, sewage disposal, sex workers, social fabric, social strata, society, South Korea, sunrise, The Garden Of Earthly Delights, The Last Supper, trade, workers