Curtain up on Iron Curtain films!
Almost in defiance of the impending gloom of Brexit, London continues to host a plethora of European film events, national film-weeks and a variety of cultural cinematic gatherings, screenings and...
View ArticleOn the Kindness of Strangers
There is another White House, an iconic apartment-house opened in 1936,and now a listed building, in bustling Marylebone, close to Regent's Park in the centre of London, and opposite the site of the...
View ArticleFasten your Seat-belts - Raindance is taking off tonight!
In characteristic contrast to the ever-earlier Launch of the BFI London Film Festival, held (on 31st August 2017) in the terror-attack capital's largest cinema, which was awash with sponsor's mineral...
View Article"The Jungle" film launches tonight with Red Cross Charity Premiere in the...
One of the most remarkable British directing debuts of this or any year, In Another Life is a swiftly-paced,convincingly acted and utterly involving recreation of the struggles of a handful of refugees...
View ArticleFrying tonight!
Though based in High Wycombe ,the Third Edition of the highly independent Fisheye Film Festival ventures to nearby Beaconsfield tonight with a special screening inside the cinema of the famed National...
View ArticleRussian about Town
It could hardly be a more topical time, given the international brouhahas in the media about Soviet cyberhacking and the alleged,well-funded if unsubtle interference of Putinistas in elections around...
View ArticleShort shorts - Kalinin Calling!
More than a visual visiting card for a young or debuting film-maker, the short film should be a work of cinematic art in its own right, comparable to the stories of Guy de Maupassant or the exquisite...
View ArticlePolish Films Spring into London at the 15th Kinoteka
The Polish Film Spring came early into London this year, as Kinoteka unreeled, for the 15th time, from 17th March to 5th April, 2017,in various venues across the capital, presenting new and classic...
View ArticleAnimated Closing Gala at 15th Kinoteka in Londyn
Following a string of contemporary and classic Polish film screenings in a variety of venues across London, the 15th Kinoteka came to a spectacular close in the labyrinthine Barbican Centre (on...
View ArticlePostcards from Blighty
Not only the not-so-very United Kingdom is facing crises of identity and culture-clashes currently, in the months apres-BREXIT and avant the various elections looming across Europe, but the cinema...
View ArticleCurtain up on Iron Curtain films!
Almost in defiance of the impending gloom of Brexit, London continues to host a plethora of European film events, national film-weeks and a variety of cultural cinematic gatherings, screenings and...
View ArticleOn the Kindness of Strangers
There is another White House, an iconic apartment-house opened in 1936,and now a listed building, in bustling Marylebone, close to Regent's Park in the centre of London, and opposite the site of the...
View ArticleFasten your Seat-belts - Raindance is taking off tonight!
In characteristic contrast to the ever-earlier Launch of the BFI London Film Festival, held (on 31st August 2017) in the terror-attack capital's largest cinema, which was awash with sponsor's mineral...
View Article"The Jungle" film launches tonight with Red Cross Charity Premiere in the...
One of the most remarkable British directing debuts of this or any year, In Another Life is a swiftly-paced,convincingly acted and utterly involving recreation of the struggles of a handful of refugees...
View ArticleFrying tonight!
Though based in High Wycombe ,the Third Edition of the highly independent Fisheye Film Festival ventures to nearby Beaconsfield tonight with a special screening inside the cinema of the famed National...
View ArticleRussian about Town
It could hardly be a more topical time, given the international brouhahas in the media about Soviet cyberhacking and the alleged,well-funded if unsubtle interference of Putinistas in elections around...
View ArticlePolishing up Polish Cinema
Easter comes early to the not-so-United Kingdom this year, and so has KINOTEKA which has brought for its 16th annual Edition a cornucopia of features, shorts and documentaries of Polish provenance or...
View ArticleCherchez les Femmes!
In such grim times, and with such over-budgeted but under-scripted movies hurtling into cinemas around the globe, what a delight Picturehouses brought across the troubled British Isles last night with...
View ArticleSERET:Sabras a go go
While much of the international film world was cavorting across the Croisette, confused and often rain-swept, and desperately seeking empowerment for female cineastes on and off the screens of the...
View ArticleFigures in a LANDSCAPE Exhibition
As part of the celebrations marking its 250th anniversary as a teaching venue, the Royal Academy on London's Piccadilly has undergone some extensive, if not eccentric , renovations and refurbishing of...
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