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Broken Arrow
(1996)

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Post date November 24 2024
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Director – John Woo – 1996 – US – Cert. 15 – 108m *** Woo’s second US outing pits Christian Slater against nuclear stealth bomber co-pilot turned bad John Travolta in the Arizona desert – part of Art of Action, a major UK-wide season celebrating the artistry of real action choreography at cinemas across the […]

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Made in England:
The Films of
Powell and Pressburger

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Post date May 8 2024
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The Films of
Powell and Pressburger
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Powell and Pressburger on the set of The Red Shoes

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 […]

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Contempt
(Le Mépris)

Director – Jean-Luc Godard – 1963 – France – Cert. 15 – 103m ***** Review originally published in What’s On In London when the film was reissued in 1996 – out in cinemas in a 4K remaster from Friday, 2nd June and on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD & digital from Monday, 26th June 2023 Made […]

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Three Colours: Blue
(Trois Couleurs: Bleu)

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Post date March 30 2023
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Director – Krzysztof Kieślowski – 1993 – France – Cert. 15 – 94m ***** A woman who survives the car crash which kills both her composer husband and their young daughter finds herself financially secure and free to do…nothing – 4K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 31st This represents the first […]

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Krzysztof Kieślowski
talks about
Three Colours: Blue

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Post date March 30 2023
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Transcript of interview from 1993 when Kieślowski was promoting Three Colours: Blue. At the time, the other two films in the trilogy had yet to be screened to press. How far do you consider Three Colours: Blue a separate entity in its own right, and how far the first part of a planned trilogy? “I […]

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Samjin Company
English Class
(Samjin Group
Yeong-aw TOEIC-ban,
삼진 그룹영어토익반)

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Post date July 14 2021
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English Class
(Samjin Group
Yeong-aw TOEIC-ban,
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Director – Lee Jong-pil – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 12 – 110m ***** Three undervalued corporate women employees investigate an environmental cover up at their company – a teaser screening from the London Korean Film Festival 1995, Korea. Three twentysomething women working in the Samjin Company are consistently undervalued. They meet up after […]

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Crash

Director – David Cronenberg – 1996 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 100m ***** This review was originally published in the Arts Centre Group‘s member’s newsletter. See also my review for What DVD. All stills from Crash apart from the one from Videodrome. Canadian film director David Cronenberg has a reputation for filming the unfilmable. […]

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Possessor

The irredeemable flesh PossessorDirected by Brandon CronenbergCertificate 18, 103 minutesReleased 27 November The controversial director David Cronenberg has long been an exponent of something he calls ‘the new flesh’, ways that humanity might transcend its bodies. His son Brandon is the same, his new film Possessor concerning the world of cybernetic industrial espionage. Tasya Vos […]

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Possessor

Director – Brandon Cronenberg – 2020 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 103m ***** A woman possesses other people’s bodies via technology to assassinate selected targets – on Shudder from Thursday, June 10th, as well Digital HD or BFI Player rental Anyone who’s seen Brandon Cronenberg’s earlier Antiviral (2012) will know that he is a […]

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Crash

Director – David Cronenberg – 1996 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 100m ***** This review of the UK DVD was originally published in What DVD. See also my review for the Arts Centre Group’s member’s newsletter. Sold as a sex and car crash (and by implication action) movie, Crash is in reality something very […]