Director – Takeshi Koike – 2025 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 93m *** Lupin and his friends are lured to a zombie-populated island run by an immortal being where a toxic gas kills people after 24 hours – out in UK cinemas on Saturday, February 21st Lupin III (or LUPIN THE IIIRD as he’s called here) has […]
Director – Juan Martin Hsu – 2025 – Argentina, Peru – 90m ***** Argentinian cops and robbers procedural is set largely in the world of Mendoza’s immigrant Chinese community – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2010. Mendoza, Argentina. The family-run, Chinese restaurant of Dageng (Kon Yam Pin) receives telephone threats for protection […]
Director – Martin Scorsese – 2016 – US – Cert. 15 – 161m ***** Scorsese questions and tests the unwavering faith of the hidden Christians of Japan, and our allegiance to the director remains just as steadfast – read our verdict on the director’s latest movie, out on New Year’s Day Religion is a subject […]
Director – Krzysztof Kieślowski – 1994 – France – Cert. 15 – 92m **** A Pole down on his luck and facing legal proceedings from his French wife, smuggles himself on a plane from Paris to Warsaw in order to get his life and dignity back – 4K restoration is out in UK cinemas on […]
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 […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2019 – Japan – 120m **** As a Japanese TV journalist works with a Japanese camera crew in Uzbekistan, she meditates on her life and career – from the BFI London Film Festival 2019 and the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) 2019 – and from Wednesday, November 11th on […]