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Naomi Kawase directs (from left) Yoshinaga Jun (Kyoto), Murakami Nijirô (Kaito) and Tokita Fujio (Kyoto's grandfather?)

The Global Film Book Blog

Ciao Ciao (France-China 2017) November 20, 2018
Ciao Ciao is the latest DVD release from Matchbox Films and a welcome surprise. Matchbox Films pick up a diverse range of films, but not usually a film like this which comes with the support of a Cannes Cinéfondation ‘Atelier’ tag and both a World Cinema Support Fund and CNC credit. Screened at the Berlinale in … Continue reading Ciao Ciao (France-China 2017 […]
Spike Lee Joint 3: Four Little Girls (US 1997) November 7, 2018
I’ve been prompted by shootings of African-Americans in far too many incidents over the last few years to dig out some notes I used in 2003. The crime investigated in Four Little Girls, the Spike Lee documentary, is also alluded to in Selma, the 2014 film about Martin Luther King. I thought that Spike Lee had … Continue reading Spike Lee Joint 3: Four Little […]
The Girl Who Kicked in the Hornet’s Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes, Sweden/Denmark/Germany 2009) October 4, 2018
(I discovered this in a pile of unpublished posts. I’m posting it now as a tribute to Mikael Nykvist who died ridiculously young (of lung cancer) at 56 in June 2017. I also note that a second ‘follow up’ title in the Millennium series by David Lagercrantz has been published in the UK and that Sony … Continue reading The Girl Who Kicked in the Hornet’s Nest ( […]
Purple Butterfly (Zi hudie, China-France 2003) September 25, 2018
MUBI has recently included several films by the Chinese auteur Lou Ye as part of its rolling monthly programme. They titled their mini-season of Lou’s films ‘Freedom and Defiance: The Cinema of Lou Ye’. Lou Ye (born 1965) made his first features in China in 1994 and 1995, but it was not until 2000 that … Continue reading Purple Butterfly (Zi hudie, China-Fr […]
Under the Tree (Undir trénu, Iceland-Poland-Denmark 2017) August 21, 2018
At first, I was under the misapprehension that Under the Tree was a follow-up to Rams (2015), the Icelandic film that became a surprise arthouse hit in the UK in 2016. I was wrong. Under the Tree is a different writing and directing team. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson wrote and directed the film with Huldar Breiðfjörð as … Continue reading Under the Tree (Undi […]
The Bridges of Sarajevo (France-Bosnia-Herzogovina-Germany-Italy-Switz-Portugal-Bulgaria 2014) July 25, 2018
This compendium/portmanteau film features the work of 13 European directors who were asked to represent aspects of Sarajevo’s turbulent history. The film was completed for the centenary of the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which triggered the First World War. Since then the city, which had been in Austrian-Hungarian control since 1978 after […]

Media Student’s Book Blog

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 →

Cineuropa

MIDPOINT selects nine projects for Feature Launch 2019 - Industry – Europe
First or second film projects by directors from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine will take part in Feature Launch next year
Interview: Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti • Directors of Sibel - “We had hard-working and talented producers, all working for the sake of the film” - Cinémamed 2018
Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, the directors of Sibel, talk to us about their feature, which scooped three awards, including the Cineuropa Prize, at the latest Cinémamed in Brussels
Interview: Ralph Fiennes • Director of The White Crow - “It was clear that if it were ever a film, it would be about the defection” - European Film Awards 2018
As he prepares to be honoured at the European Film Awards, Ralph Fiennes talks about his Rudolf Nureyev film The White Crow, his third outing in the director’s chair
Sacha Polak’s Dirty God to open the 48th IFFR - Rotterdam 2019
The latest films by Andrés Duque, Eva Ionesco and Fabienne Godet are to be showcased in the Voices section
Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve • Director of Maya - Vocation, addiction, love and duality
Mia Hansen-Løve talks to Cineuropa about Maya, shot primarily in India, unveiled at Toronto and soon to be released in French cinemas
The Berlinale announces six Golden Bear candidates for its 69th edition - Berlin 2019 – Competition/Berlinale Special
Amongst the first titles to enter the competition are the latest films by three Berlinale regulars: François Ozon, Fatih Akin and Denis Côté
Review: Il testimone invisibile - Film - Italy
Stefano Mordini's noir, starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Miriam Leone, is presented as a sequence of conversations and flashbacks that ultimately fail to build the suspense the genre requires
Interview: Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin • Managing director, Les Arcs Film Festival - "The spirit of Les Arcs is to stand up for quality cinema and play an active part in the creative process" - Les Arcs 2018
Two days before the tenth Les Arcs Film Festival kicks off, Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, the event’s managing director and co-founder, casts a glance at its past and present

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