Tag: WW1

Landship

Director – Callum Burn – 2026 – UK – Cert. 15 – 89m **** A British tank crew on the offensive on WW1’s Western Front becomes stranded behind enemy lines when their vehicle is immobilised – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 26th Doom-laden music. Historial WW1 footage. 1917. Captions explain the situation. […]

Tags 23rd Psalm, 360°, armament, armament shell, August 22nd 1917, barbed wire, barricade, battlefield, behind enemy lines, British, British officer, Callum Burn, captive, casualties, ceasefire, combat, David Dobson, deadlock, devil, enemy infantry, explosive, faith, fear no evil, France, gas mask, get help, God, grenade, gun, gun emplacement, handgun, immobilised, industrial space, Jack Sherlock, Jeffrey Mundell, knock out, Landship, moustache, murk, myths, Nadav Burstein, naviigator, negotiate, nightmare, overrun, periscope, playing cards, prayer, protection, push forward, revolver, rifle butt, Sam Dowdy, screaming, shell, shell crater, shrapnel, sketchbook, smoke, spiked cudgel, stranded, suicide, surrender, surrounded, tank crew, the Allies, The Western Front, trapped, trench, Valley of the Shadow of Death, viewing slit, Vin Hawke, visibility, vomiting, war, war movie, warfare, watched over, World War 1, World War One, wounded, WW1, Ypres

Features Live Action Movies Music

The History of Sound

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 23 2026
No Comments on The History of Sound
Sticky post

Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 128m **** A Kentucky man falls for a music professor in Boston and accompanies him on a field trip recording folk songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd In 1917, having grown up on a farmstead in rural Kentucky and […]

Tags 1910s, 1920s, 1980s, abusive relationship, academic holidays, army, assistant, bereavement, Boston, Briana Middleton, call up, catalog, catalogue, choir, Chris Cooper, church choir, collect, college, community, coughing, countryside, death of mother, Dion Graham, drafted, Emma Canning, England, ethnic, ethnomusicologist, eviction from the land, family farm, farm, field trip, fireman, folk songs, Frist World War, gay relationship, Hadley Robinson, hobby, indigenous, indigenous folk songs, Italy, Josh O’Connor, Kentucky, Lake District, letter, LGBTQ, LGBTQI, mail, Maine, Malaga Island, Michael Schantz, military draft, mixed black and white ethnic, Molly Price, mothers and sons, music, musicologist, negro spiritual, New England Conservatory of Music, obsession, Oliver Hermanus, Oxford University, paper candle, parents and children, Paul Mescal, performing, photographic memory: Silver Dagger, pianist, piano, police, policemen, poor people, porch, post-WW1, promote a book, pub, record, recording, relationships, Rome, rural, rural and urban, scholarship, sex, shell shock, socialite, song, song gathering, spiritual, stately mansion, student, suitcase, sweet-talking, tent, tenured academic, the happiest time of your life, The History of Sound, travelling, truncheon, tuberculosis, TV appearance, UK, US, war, wax cylinders, wax phonograph cylinders, widow, working the fields, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

Features Live Action Movies

The Choral

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 7 2025
No Comments on The Choral
Sticky post

Director – Nicholas Hytner – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 113m ***** Against the backdrop of WW1 and a dwindling male population, the choral society of a small Yorkshire village attempts to mount a performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 7th The fictional town of Ramsden, […]

Tags 1916 Conscription Act, 1916. 17-year-old, afterlife, alderman, Alun Armstrong, Amara Okereke, armed forces, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, call up papers, called up, chasing girls, chaste, choir, choral society, conductor, conscription notes, Elgar, Emily Fairn, Handel, Jacob Dudman, life and death, Lyndsey Marshal, Mark Addy, mill owner, moral, musical director, news of death, Nicholas Hytner, Oliver Briscombe, organiser, photographer, prostitute, Ralph Fiennes, Ramsden, Roger Allam, rounds, Saltaire, Salvation Army, Shaun Thomas, Simon Russell-Beale, Sir Edward Elgar, soldiers’ wives, Taylor Uttley, telegram, telegram boy, tenor, The Choral, The Dream of Gerontius, the Front, traumatised, UK, undertaker, village, volunteer, working in Germany, World Wat 1, World Wat One, WW1, Yorkshire, Yorkshire porn’

Features Live Action Movies

The Girl
with the Needle
(Pigen med Nålen)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 9 2025
No Comments on The Girl
with the Needle
(Pigen med Nålen)
Sticky post

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

Features Live Action Movies

Padre Pio

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 26 2024
No Comments on Padre Pio
Sticky post

Director – Abel Ferrara – 2022 – Germany, Italy – Cert. 15 – 104m ***1/2 Post-WW1, In San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, a Catholic mystic undergoes temptation while down in the village, armed landowners and military officers attempt to halt the rising tide of socialism – out on Blu-ray, DVD & DL from Monday, March 11th […]

Tags 20th century, Abel Ferrara, armed, bless guns, Brando Pacito, Catholic, Catholic thought, Catholicism, Christ is Lord, Christian, congregants, contemplation, death notice, declaring elections unlawful, devout, election, Ermanno de Biagi, First World War, friar, Germany, insurrection, Italian nationalism, Italy, Jesus, killed in action, landowner, landowners, Liberation Theology, massacre, military officers, more equitable society, mystic, nudity, parlance, pay, Pio, post-WW1, poverty, prayer, provocation, religion, religion and politics, repression, returning soldiers, rich and poor, sacraments, San Giovanni Rotondo, Satan, Shia LaBeouf, single parent mother, single parent mum, socialism, spiritual, spiritual and political, stealing, stigmata, temptation, temptress, torment, village, Vincenzo Crea, visitation, work, worked to death, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

Art Documentary Exhibitions Features Live Action Movies Music

Exhibition on Screen:
Klimt & the Kiss

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 30 2023
No Comments on Exhibition on Screen:
Klimt & the Kiss
Sticky post

Director – Ali Ray – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 90m ***** A look at one of the world’s favourite paintings, housed in Vienna’s Belvedere Museum, and the wider body of work of the artist who created it – out in UK cinemas on Monday, October 30th for one day only All lovers […]

Tags Academy style, Ali Ray, anti-Semitism, art exhibition, art gallery, art history, Art Nouveau, artists, artists’ community, Beethoven, Beethoven exhibit of 1902, Belvedere Museum, birth of Modernism, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, cultural historian, curator, Eastern European church icons, embrace, Emilie Flöge, exhibition, Exhibition On Screen, fashion designer, female experience, feminine, First World War, France, frieze, Gavin Plumley, gold, golden lacquer Japanese work, Gustav Klimt, Impressionism, Impressionists, Ivan Ristić, James McNeill Whistler, Japan, John Singer Sargent, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Jugendstil, kiss, Klimt Foundation, lecturer, Leopold Museum, lesbian, LGBTQ, life partner, Mag. Sandra Tretter, Mag. Stephanie Auer, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh Jan Toorop, Matisse, Max Klinger. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, medieval art, Modernism, motto, museum, mythology, naked, nude, nudity, offence, overwhelming, painting, Paris, partially clad, Phil Grabsky, porn, Rodin, Sabine Weiber, sculpture, Secession Building, Secession exhibition, sex, The Kiss, The Secession, the style of youth’, turn of the century, UK, University of Glasgow, Van Gogh, Vienna, working class women, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

Features Live Action Movies

Killers
of the Flower Moon

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 7 2023
No Comments on Killers
of the Flower Moon
Sticky post

Director – Martin Scorsese – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 206m ***** A returning WW1 veteran marries into Oklahoma’s Osage Indian tribe at the time of the Osage Indian Murders – plays the 2023 London Film Festival which runs from Wednesday, October 4th until Sunday, October 15th, and will be out in UK […]

Tags 1920s, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, adaptation, black gold, BOI, Brendan Fraser, brother-in-law, bullet in the head, Bureau of Investigation, calm, Cara Jade Myers, Catholic, cattleman, centred, closed cases, courtroom drama, crime, criminal, David Grann, diabetic, dignified Osage woman Mollie Burkhart, dignity, dishonesty, double life, drama, drinking, driver, drunk, Ernest Burkhart, fall in love, family, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, ferrying local people hither and thither, First World War, framed, greedy, imprisoned, Indians, inheritance, insulin, investigative procedural, investigators, J. Edgar Hoover, Janae Collins, Jason Isbell, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow, Killers Of The Flower Moon, land rights, lawlessness, lawyers, legal documents, Leonardo DiCaprio, LFF, LFF 2023, Lily Gladstone, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2023, marriage, Martin Scorsese, mass, murder, Native Americans, night, oil, Oklahoma, One of Ernest’s fares in the quiet, Osage, Osage County, Osage tribe, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, poison, protected by law, redskins, rights, Robert De Niro, secluded spot, shrewd, siblings, sister, suicide, Tantoo Cardinal, true crime, uncles and nephews, urban, violence, well-off, whisky, William Hale, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

Art Documentary Exhibitions Features Live Action Movies

Exhibition on Screen:
Hopper:
an American Love Story

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 18 2022
No Comments on Exhibition on Screen:
Hopper:
an American Love Story
Sticky post

Director – Phil Grabsky – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 94m ***** The story of American painter Edward Hopper, and how his artistic career was facilitated by his fellow artist wife Jo – originally out in UK cinemas on Tuesday, October 18th 2022, now available on home video (see bottom of review) The […]

Tags architecture, art, art student, avid reader, Bob Dylan, books, buildings, business manager, Cape Cod, Christianity, church, Church Mission, creativity, Cubism, David Lynch, description, Edward Hopper, Exhibition On Screen, First World War, fleshpots, France, Greenwich village, Hitchcock, House by the Railroad, houses, husbands and wives, hustle and bustle, illustration, Jo Hopper, Josephine Nivison, Josephine Nivison Hopper, light, light and shade, Manhattan, mass, Montmatre, Montparnasse, New York, Nighthawks, painting, Paris, partnership, periodicals, Picasso, plein air, psycho, reader, religion, sexual trauma, shade, shadow, sketch outside, still image narrative, Truro, twentieth century, UK, urban landscapes, US, verbal description, Washington Square, watercolour, Whitney Museum of American Art, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

Features Live Action Movies

Benediction

Director – Terence Davies – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 137m **** The life of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, his homosexual lifestyle and his heterosexual marriage – out in cinemas on Friday, May 20th It’s been five years since Davies’ previous film A Quiet Passion (2016) and the curious thing is, […]

Tags active service, Anton Lesser, Ben Daniels, Catholicism, chief medical officer, conflict, conversion, court-martial, Craiglockhart, Craiglockhart War Hospital, dance, Edinburgh, Emily Dickinson, fathers and sons, First World War, fit for active service, gay, gay illegal, gay relationships, gay sex, Gemma Jones, George Sassoon, Hester Gatty, heterosexual marriage, high command, homosexual illegal, hospital, illegal, Ivor Novello, Jack Lowden, Jeremy Irvine, Julian Sands, Kate Phillips, law, literary, marital breakdown, marriage, Matthew Tennyson, military command, narcissist, offspring, Peter Capaldi, poet, poetry, relationships, Richard Goulding, Robbie Ross, separation, sex, sexual preference, shell shock, Siegfried Sassoon, Simon Russell-Beale, Terence Davies, theatre, top brass, war, Wilfred Owen, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

Features Live Action Movies

Benediction

Glum heroes BenedictionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 137 minutesReleased 20 May Films about poets are few; however, the director Terence Davies has now made two in a row as different as their historical subjects. The earlier A Quiet Passion (Reform, April 2017) concerns the introverted, isolated, American spinster Emily Dickinson while the current Benediction is […]

Tags active service, Anton Lesser, Catholicism, conflict, conversion, court-martial, Craiglockhart, Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh, Emily Dickinson, fathers and sons, First World War, fit for active service, gay, gay illegal, gay relationships, gay sex, Gemma Jones, George Sassoon, Hester Gatty, heterosexual marriage, high command, homosexual illegal, hospital, illegal, Ivor Novello, Jack Lowden, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, law, literary, marital breakdown, marriage, Matthew Tennyson, military command, offspring, Peter Capaldi, poet, poetry, relationships, Richard Goulding, Robbie Ross, separation, sex, sexual preference, shell shock, Siegfried Sassoon, Simon Russell-Beale, Terence Davies, theatre, top brass, war, Wilfred Owen, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1