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A rage on the stage
"It's the pictures that got small" snarled Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. But that small screen in the corner of rooms around the world screening Game of Thrones ensures a...
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Spring in the airs
Another underground venue in London's West End, not exactly for films but very film-related is the fabulous Art Deco cabaret bar called The Crazy Coqs in the bowels of what used to be the largest...
View ArticleSunny start in Athens of the North
The sun shines down on the 72nd Edinburgh International Film Festival with large and enthusiastic audiences in new venues in an annual event (it has the longest unbroken record of any large scale film...
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Odd Man In
During the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, in a milder English heatwave, the marvellous Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image, in the heart of London's Bloomsbury, celebrated one of the greatest English...
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Pierfull Pleasure in the Best British Comedy in years
Unquestionably the funniest film I saw at the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Eaten by Lions (99 minutes) had sold-out world premiere screenings, selected in the British Cinema strand....
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Midsummer Nights' Dreams in Spain
No rain in SpainA land of movies and famed for its film festivals (encouraged by Franco in the past to entertain and perhaps district his citizens) Spain seemed recently to have come off the boil...
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3 Tage in Regent Strasse
Today would have been the 80th birthday of Austrian screen legend Romy Schneider so the semi-factual fictive feature reconstructon of her famous interview for Germany's Stern magazine, 3 Tage in...
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Canada can, and does still- with style!
For its seventh annual Quebec Lecture in London, the Francophone Delegation filled the superb surrounds of the Royal Geographical Society, which has nestled for well over a century in one of the...
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Mannheim - Heidelberg: Meetings with Remarkable Films
With its 67th edition the International Film Festival, now running in both Mannheim and Heidelberg, adjacent antique and bustling cities south of Frankfurt on Germany's celebrated Weinstrasse,...
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Talking Turkey in London
Opening lunch in SOFRA off Oxford Street film director Mustafa Karadeniz on right Jean-Marc BarrTurkish Coffee Phillip Bergson with director of Yunus Emre Institute London Dr Mehmet Karakus, film...
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Viva Italia! at Ciné Lumiere in London
With a sold-out curtain-raising preview of LORO, Paolo Sorrentino's latest Felliniesque politico-social vaudeville the latest Cinema Made in Italy launched its sunniest showcase of new Italian features...
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My arrival in Cannes was unusually smooth, having found- only days before travelling- a return flight on British Airways that was somehow cheaper in sogenannt Club Europe than in Economy Class (albeit...
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Short 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...
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Polish 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...
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Postcards 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...
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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...
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On 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...
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Fasten 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...
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"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...
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