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A Complete Unknown

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 16 2025
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Director – James Mangold – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 141m ***** A feature narrative recreation of Bob Dylan’s career in New York up to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival gig where he switched acoustic guitar for electric – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 17th 1961. Carrying his acoustic guitar, complete […]

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127 Hours

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 31 2023
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Director – Danny Boyle – 2010 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m UK release date 07/01/2011, cert. 15, 93 mins The trailer for this gives a pretty good impression of about its first third. Experienced, youthful and single outdoor explorer Aron Ralston (James Franco) mountain bikes through the Utah landscape, meets a couple of […]

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The Blue Caftan
(Le Bleu Du Caftan)

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Post date May 5 2023
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(Le Bleu Du Caftan)
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Director – Maryam Touzani – 2022 – Morocco – Cert. 12a – 122m **** A love triangle between a gay dressmaker, his wife and the man’s new apprentice, a movie which deserves to be cherished for a wide variety of reasons – out in UK cinemas and on BFI Player (rental) from Friday, May 5th […]

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The Worst Person
In The World
(Verdens Verste
Menneske)

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Post date March 25 2022
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In The World
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Menneske)
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Director – Joachim Trier – 2021 – Norway – Cert. 15 – 128m ***** A young woman learns about both herself and life through two personal relationships – twice Oscar-nominated film is on MUBI from Friday, May 13th Trying to reinvent herself, Julie (Renate Reinsve) spends her student days moving from medicine into psychology (believing […]

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Still The Water
(Futatsume
No Mado,
2つ目の窓)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 23 2021
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(Futatsume
No Mado,
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Director – Naomi Kawase – 2014 – Japan / France – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** Two childhood sweethearts living on an island beset by storms must come to terms with the mortality and fallibility of their mothers – on BFI Player (rental) and MUBI. The ocean roars and then, just as suddenly, is quiet. […]