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Daily Archives: 11 January, 2013

  • Midnight’s Children (Canada-UK 2012) January 11, 2013

Recent Posts

  • Adapting Highsmith #5: The Two Faces of January (UK-France-US 2014)
  • Adapting Highsmith #4: This Sweet Sickness (Dites-lui que je l’aime, France 1977)
  • The Blue Room (La chambre bleue, France 2014)
  • Adapting Highsmith #3 : Le meurtrier (Enough Rope, France-West Germany-Italy 1963)
  • Hell or High Water (US 2016)
  • Adapting Highsmith #2: The Glass Cell (Die gläserne Zelle, West Germany 1978)
  • Sid and Nancy (UK 1986)
  • Julieta (Spain 2016)
  • Adapting Highsmith #1: Deep Water (Eaux profondes, France 1981)
  • Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika, Germany 2001)
  • Black (Belgium 2015)
  • Two Men in Town (Fra-Bel-Algeria-US 2014)

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  • The Clan (El Clan, Argentina-Spain 2015) September 26, 2016
    Pablo Trapero is one of the most successful filmmakers working in Argentina today. To underline that status, his latest film to get a UK release was co-produced by the Almodóvar’s company El Deseo. It won the Silver Lion at Venice in 2015 and had the biggest ever opening box office take for any film in Argentina, … Continue reading →
  • Sweet Bean (An, Japan-France-Germany 2015) August 11, 2016
    For reasons I don’t fully understand, the Japanese director Naomi Kawase divides film critics and audiences. A regular presence at Cannes, her films have until recently been seen only at festivals in much of the English-speaking world. It wasn’t until Still the Water from 2014 that she achieved a UK release. Despite all her international … Continue reading → […]
  • Fidelio – Alice’s Journey (France 2014) July 8, 2016
    At a time when the number of films directed by women has become a major issue in the anglophone world, it’s worth noting that in France things have moved on considerably. In a review of Mon Roi (2015) by the actor-director Maïwenn (Sight & Sound, July 2016), Ginette Vincendeau makes the point that currently over … Continue reading →
  • Book Review: World Cinema Through Global Genres June 13, 2016
    World Cinema Through Global Genres, William V. Constanzo, John Wiley 2014, £21.99, 432pp ISBN 9781118712924 The US publisher John Wiley now has a major global brand for academic and professional texts after its 2007 merger with Oxford-based Blackwell. This means that there is now UK promotion for a Wiley US textbook like this title. In … Continue reading → […]
  • Mon Roi (France 2015) June 4, 2016
    StudioCanal has a habit of what strikes me as ‘dumping’ French titles on the UK market. They open in a handful of cinemas with little promotion and then go straight to DVD or online. These are sometimes titles from interesting directors or they have been hits in France but are presumably not expected to do … Continue reading →
  • Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Hong Kong 2011) April 2, 2016
    MilkyWay Image Productions, the imprint set up by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai, has been responsible for both the crime films by Johnnie To that have circulated in the West and a series of romcoms that haven’t circulated widely outside East Asia. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart marked a ‘return’ to directing for the prolific … Continue reading →

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  • Balancing left and right
    The Labour leadership election appears to have got the UK press and broadcasting media in a real tizz. One of the most aggravating aspects of the reporting is the constant appendage of ‘left-wing’ to any reference to Jeremy Corbyn. He is … Continue reading →
  • Defining the other
    The 10th anniversary of the ‘7/7 bombings’ in 2005 in London saw a range of remembrance events across the UK. These resulted in a great deal of media coverage. One BBC radio reporter referred to the four young bombers and … Continue reading →
  • Getting the balance right
    The local elections in England last week produced two examples of quandaries for broadcasters. The big story for the BBC and other commentators was the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), led by a curiously charismatic Nigel Farage. UKIP are … Continue reading →
  • Welsh TV noir: Hinterland (UK 2013)
    Hinterland is a good example of the global/local. Like some other modern states the UK has statutory requirements and cultural policies that protect the other languages in the Home Nations and this means support for both Welsh and Gaelic broadcasters … Continue reading →

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