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: Dubai, August 2014.
Category Archives: World Cinema
Up in the air, and down
Josephine Grahl revisits Satiyajit Ray’s favourite of his own films, Charulata
Swallows and Amazons Forever Again
As Swallows and Amazons comes to DVD and blu-ray, Jim Eaton-Terry revisits a personal favourite.
Blackwood
Viv Wilby checks out this small-scale, atmospheric British chillerÂ
A Night at the Cinema in 2014
Want to travel back in time to 1914? Well, hurry up and invent time travel, then. Want to watch a bunch of films first shown in 1914? The BFI has just the thing, and Emma Street has done you a preview.
Victim
Philip Concannon revisits Basil Dearden’s British classic of repression and shame, on the occasion of its Blu-ray debut as part of Network’s series “the British Film”.
Jacques In A Box
Niall Anderson watches the complete work of Jacques Tati, a man for whom the ridiculous and the sublime were indistinguishable
Monoglot Movie Club: Take It To The Bridge
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: Denmark & Sweden, Spring 2014.
#TFEFF14
Spank The Monkey previews the Terracotta Far East Film Festival, taking place in London from May 23rd to June 1st 2014.
Monoglot Movie Club: Introducing Mike Tobacconist
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: Czech Republic, February 2014.
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