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  • Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie (Belgium-France 2015) June 24, 2016
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  • Notes on Screen Acting: Jessica Chastain April 21, 2015
  • Second Thoughts on Elena (Russia 2011) March 16, 2015
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  • More thoughts on Maps to the Stars from Rona October 17, 2014
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  • Behind the Candelabra (US 2013) July 30, 2013
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  • Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit, West Germany 1975)
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  • Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan, India (Hindi) 2017) August 28, 2017
    Hotel Salvation is the latest Indian Independent film to successfully tour film festivals worldwide and now receive a limited general release in the UK. It was first launched at the Venice Film Festival last year. Its young (25 year-old) writer-director Shubhashish Bhutiani had already won prizes with Kesh (2013), his thesis film short from New … Continue re […]
  • Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, India (Bengal) 1960) July 14, 2017
    Cloud-Capped Star is the first film in Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s trilogy about the partition of Bengal in 1947 and its aftermath. It could be argued that all of Ghatak’s features between 1952 and 1977, when his last work was released posthumously, were concerned with the partition, but it is the trilogy that has been … Continue reading →
  • Heal the Living (Réparer les vivants, France-Belgium 2016) May 22, 2017
    This is the third feature by the French auteur Katell Quillévéré. It’s adapted from a novel by Maylis De Kerangal and the screenplay is by the director and the highly-experienced Gilles Taurand. I’d seen and enjoyed Ms Quillévéré’s first two features, Love Like Poison (2010) and Suzanne (2013), and I was keen to see the third, although I knew it … Continue r […]
  • Your Name (Japan 2016) February 20, 2017
    This new anime by director Shinkai Makoto has prompted comparisons with the great successes of Studio Ghibli and specifically with the work of Miyazaki Hayao. It isn’t difficult to understand the comparisons. The narrative deals with adolescents, both of whom have the potential for heroism. Mitsuha lives in a small town in the mountains but … Continue readin […]
  • Rams (Hrútar, Iceland-Denmark-Norway-Poland 2015) January 2, 2017
    These are my (slightly edited) notes distributed for a screening of the film in 2016. Rams was a surprise arthouse hit in the UK in 2016. It was promoted as a dark comedy about a pair of brothers who have fallen out though they live close by each other on two separate farms. What brings them back into … Continue reading →
  • United States of Love (Zjednoczone Stany Miłości, Poland 2016) November 22, 2016
    Tomasz Wasilewski, writer-director of United States of Love is a name to watch. Born in 1980 he has produced a narrative set in a Polish town in 1990. The English title of the film is ironic in two ways. It could be read as a comment directed at the desire of Poles in 1990 for … 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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