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by Indy Datta So, when Billy Crystal wasn’t blacking up, he was making mildly tasteless jokes about Kodak’s bankruptcy, thus giving hacks on right wing rags another weak excuse to write about how Hollywood hates America. The rumours of the death of film are, if not exaggerated, a little premature – 7 of this year’s [...]

by Susan Patterson This week Mostly Links, like everyone else, is pondering the Oscars nominees.  The Catalans are consoling themselves over their disappointment that Pa Negre (Black Bread) didn’t make it into the final five for Best Foreign Language Film, with the two nominations they did get.

by Philip Concannon How does cinema react to a tragedy as enormous as the earthquake that struck Japan on March 11th this year? Director Koichi Omiya reacted to the disaster in the simplest way possible; he visited Tohoku and pointed his camera at a town destroyed. The Sketch of Mujo is a 75-minute documentary that [...]

Thomas Pratchett marks the, er, 48th anniversary of Doctor Who with some personal reflections. On an October evening in 1987 I wandered into our small brown living room, in which our aged, four-channel, push-button TV was on. It was past six o’clock, so cartoons were long gone for the day, and I was seven, so [...]

by Clare Dean Pandemonium and chaos.  When I arrive at the Odeon West End for the opening night of this year’s London Korean Film Festival, the queue is already around the block.  The foyer is a mass of confusion, camera crews and big, burly security men and it appears that Kim Han-min’s new film, War of [...]

by Indy Datta   Movie awards season has started, then, with the announcement over the last couple of weeks of the nominations for the British Independent Film Awards and the European Film Awards. Pretty much every week between now and the Oscars in February will bring more awards season news, and Mostly Links will be [...]

by Spank the Monkey Here’s a terrifying statistic for you. Last weekend – to be precise, the weekend starting Friday September 30th – eighteen films were released theatrically in the UK. They covered everything from Taylor Lautner’s first attempt at a leading role, via the new Lars von Trier, to a 3D documentary about cane [...]