Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s underseen debut feature screened last week at the ICA. Keifer Taylor reflects on the film and Weerasethakul’s subsequent career.
Category Archives: World Cinema
The Raid 2
We are, of course much too classy to go with the “Electric Boogaloo” joke for the standfirst. A review by Danni Glover, who is blameless in respect of the foregoing.
Tuck In!
Niall Anderson takes delivery of foodie Indian romcom The Lunchbox
Miyazaki Trifles
Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Wind Rises, is the centrepiece of the BFI’s celebration of the work of a master animator this April. So we, and in places MostlyFilm: The Next Generation*, wanted to talk about our favourite films from Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli.
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See Rome, And Live!
Niall Anderson sees a new restoration of Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 classic, Rome: Open City
Glasgow Film Festival 2014
This year Glasgow Film Festival was ten years old. We asked five writers to tell you about a film they saw during the Festival that matters.
Stranger Danger
Indy Datta reviews Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake, which is in cinemas today.
Monoglot Movie Club: All the Blobs
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: The Netherlands, Christmas 2013.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jim Eaton-Terry is charmed by the 50th anniversary reissue of Jacques Demy’s classic New Wave musical
East Side Stories
Spank The Monkey previews the Japan Foundation’s 2014 touring film programme, which brings a selection of recent Japanese movies to cinemas across the UK from January 31st to March 27th.
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