Next week sees the re-release of one of big softy Ron Swanson‘s all-time favourite films – David Lean’s Brief Encounter – as part of the BFI’s new Love season. Hankies at the ready.
Category Archives: World Cinema
Mostly Under Milk Wood
Kevin Allen’s new film of Dylan Thomas’s beloved radio play is in cinemas this week. Your reviewer is theTramp.
To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.
Monoglot Movie Club: A Gulf Of Misunderstanding
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Qatar, September 2015.
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A Girl At My Door
Emma Street finds that not everything is as it seems in July Jung’s tale of corruption and child abuse in a seaside community.
A box full of stars
Blake Backlash celebrates the 160th birthday of William Friese-Greene by looking inside The Magic Box.
Closed Curtain
Yasmeen Khan reviews Jafar Panahi’s 2013 Silver Bear winner, which reaches our screens this week.
Hard to be a God
Paul Duane on the late Alexei German’s last, and maybe most singular, film, which reaches British screens this week.
The Man Behind Man With a Movie Camera
On the occasion of the re-release of the classic of experimental film, a primer on the career of Dziga Vertov from Philip Concannon (after the jump).
P’tit Quinquin
Deadpan surrealism, brutality and featureless tracts of dull countryside. It can only be the new film from Bruno Dumont, released in the UK on Friday. Yasmeen Khan is your guide.
Monoglot Movie Club: Live At Pompeii
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. Episode 20: Italy, June 2015.
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