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  • Glasgow FF15 #6: Dearest (China-HK 2014) 26 February 2015
  • Glasgow FF15 #5: Red Amnesia (Chuǎngrù zhě, China 2014) 26 February 2015
  • Glasgow FF15 #4: Rosewater (US 2014) 25 February 2015
  • Glasgow FF15 #3: Black Souls (Anime nere, Italy-France 2014) 25 February 2015
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  • Glasgow FF15 #6: Dearest (China-HK 2014)
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  • Foxcatcher (USA 2014)
  • Glasgow FF15 #3: Black Souls (Anime nere, Italy-France 2014)
  • Glasgow FF15 #2: Clouds of Sils Maria (France/Switz/Ger 2014)
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  • Glasgow Film Festival 15, 2015
  • Spiral (Engrenages, France/UK 2014)
  • Jules et Jim (France 1962)
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  • Samson & Delilah (Australia 2009) 12 February 2015
    I’m not sure how I missed this film but I clearly made a big mistake. This is one of the most important Australian films of recent years and the section in The Global Film Book on Ten Canoes suffers because it doesn’t include discussion of this film. I hope I can now put this right. … Continue reading →
  • Rurôni Kenshin (Japan 2012) 30 January 2015
    Rurôni Kenshin is that rare beast, a contemporary popular Japanese film that received a UK release in 2013. A famous manga series in Japan in the 1990s which became a popular TV anime series, the live action film was produced by Warner Bros. for a local release in Japan where it opened at No. 1. A year … Continue reading →
  • When I Saw You (Palestine-Jordan-UAE-Greece 2012) 6 January 2015
    When I Saw You is an important film. Well-made and times very beautiful, it is perhaps a film that surprises in what it achieves. Significantly, it is one of the first Palestinian films to be made almost entirely with Arab money and to receive critical acclaim and commercial distribution within the Arab world. It deals with … Continue reading →
  • The Tree (L’arbre, Australia-France 2010) 4 January 2015
    I’m not sure how I missed this transnational production but, as the UK release schedule expands, smaller releases like this one appear only fleetingly in cinemas before going straight to DVD. I came across The Tree as one of the two earlier features by Julie Bertuccelli, director of School of Babel. (The film did actually close … Continue reading →
  • Winter Sleep (Kiş Uykusu, Turkey-France-Germany 2014) 1 January 2015
    Winter Sleep won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May, confirming the status of writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as a leading figure in global art cinema. Since 1998 he has been winning prizes at film festivals from Tokyo to Buenos Aires and all points in between. So much has been written about his latest film that … Continue reading →
  • The Midnight After (Hong Kong 2014) 16 December 2014
    Fruit Chan is the Hong Kong director best known in the UK for his independent film classic Made in Hong Kong (HK 1997) and his horror features and portmanteau film episodes such as Dumplings (HK 2004). His latest venture proved a suitably bonkers but enjoyable finale to the Asia Triennial 14 Festival screenings programme at Cornerhouse, … Continue reading → […]

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    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 →
  • The ethics of ‘the grabber image’
    An interesting ethical question for media students today. The Mirror, the only UK newspaper to always support the Labour Party has been at the centre of a public debate about the ethics of image use. Its front-page story was about the … Continue reading →
  • The BBC and its Tory critics
    One of the most vociferous critics of the BBC is the Daily Mail columnist Simon Heffer. He has routinely attacked the public service broadcaster for its ‘lefty bias’ and he’d like to see it emasculated. He presents his general view … Continue reading →

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