Tag: imagination

All of Us Strangers

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 8 2026
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Director – Andrew Haigh – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 105m ***** A gay Londoner travels by train to visit his parents in Sanderstead, following their deaths in a car crash when he was 12 years old – plays one night only, Sunday, February 8th, 6.45pm, as part of Film Tottenham He (Andrew Scott) […]

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Exhibition on Screen
Michelangelo
Love and Death

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 20 2025
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Michelangelo
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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Nosferatu
(2024)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 30 2024
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(2024)
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Director – Robert Eggers – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 132m ***** Unaware a woman has unwittingly summoned Count Orloc, her husband is sent to the latter’s castle in Transylvania – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 The German expressionist silent film Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) has been described as […]

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Nightwatch
(Nattevagten)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 14 2024
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(Nattevagten)
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Director – Ole Bornedal – 1994 – Denmark – Cert. 18 – 107m ***** Strange goings-on take place in a morgue after a law student takes on the nightwatchman’s job – out on Shudder UK from Friday, May 17th Two male students Jens (Kim Bodnia) and Martin (Nikolaj Coster Waldau) make a pact: they are […]

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Eileen

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Post date December 1 2023
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Director – William Oldroyd – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 97 m ***** Most of the film * The last five minutes NSFW In the 1960s, the life of a young woman working in a Boston boys’ correctional facility is turned on its head by the arrival of a radical, young woman prison […]

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Hello, Bookstore

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 27 2023
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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 […]

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Emily

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2022
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Director – Frances O’Connor – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 130m varies between ** and **** An imagined account of how Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 14th The three Brontë sisters Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling), Emily (Emma Mackey), and Anne (Amelia Gething) live with their brother […]

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I’ve Heard
The Mermaids
Singing

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Post date July 1 1988
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The Mermaids
Singing
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Director – Patricia Rozema – 1987 – Canada – Cert. PG – 84m **** A naive, amateur photographer comes unstuck as she gets to know a sophisticated art gallery owner – on MUBI from Wednesday, March 23rd Polly (Sheila McCarthy) – an obsessive amateur photographer with her own darkroom – is blessed with a rich […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Archipelago
(Archipel)

Director – Félix Dufour-Laperrière – 2021 – Canada – 72m **** A journey along an estuary traversing its archipelago, perhaps real, perhaps imagined, a trip into an obscure territory of the mind – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Official Competition Contrechamp section Defying easy categorisation, this is a conversation between a woman […]

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Tove

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Post date July 8 2021
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Creator of the Moomins ToveDirected by Zaida BergrothCertificate 12, 103 minutesReleased 9 July The Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known as the creator of the Moomins, a friendly family of trolls who live in Moominvalley, who appeared in her own books, newspaper strips and plays for children. The Moomins later spawned […]