Director – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** Based on Hungarian folk legends, the story of three sons of the white mare who must free three princesses from their dragon husbands and restore the kingdom from chaos – from the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, […]
Director – Mark Cousins – 2024 – UK – Cert. PG – 88m ***** A look at Scots artist and painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, who had synaesthesia – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 18th I am someone who frequents art galleries, yet I have to confess that before seeing this film, I had never […]
Director – David Hinton – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 129m ***** Martin Scorsese talks about the seminal British filmmaking duo, and how they inspired his own movies – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 10th As a child, Martin Scorsese suffered from asthma and would constantly find himself at home while […]
Director – David Bickerstaff – 2024 – UK – Cert. U – 93m **** Late nineteenth century society portrait painter John Singer Sargent was fascinated more by their clothing and the possibilities of paint than he was by the women he painted – documentary is out in UK cinemas for selected screenings from Tuesday, April […]
Director – A.B. Zax – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 86m ***** A small town US bookstore and its enthusiastic, bookworm owner are seen in good times and bad, bad being the global pandemic when it’s just getting by, profits plunge and the business is threatened with closure – out in UK cinemas […]
Director – Wes Anderson – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m *** A stage play frames a tale of various characters in a 1950s US desert town, built on the site of an asteroid impact, which becomes the centre of a cover-up after an alien appears – out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]
Director – Mark Jenkin – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** A lady environmentalist working on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast becomes subject to powerful, localised forces from the area’s past – out on UK Blu-ray/DVD combi and on BFI Player on Monday, May 8th NB The title is pronounced […]
Director – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** The Hungarian animated epic Son Of The White Mare (1981) is one of the great, largely unknown treasures of animation, if not of cinema. Its late director Marcell Jankovics (1941-2021) made a number of shorts and commercials before his two features […]
Director – Wim Wenders – 1987 – Germany – Cert. PG – 128m ***** Angels move around Berlin, watching over Berliners, until one of them sees a beautiful girl and decides he wants to become human and experience emotion for himself – out in cinemas on Friday, June 24th and playing on Film 4 from […]
Director – Mark Cousins – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 87m **** A highly personal film essay on the importance and significance of our visual senses – out in cinemas and on rental on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 17th This opens with archive interview footage of musician Ray […]