Special Feature: ‘Unrelated’ and Joanna Hogg BFI Q&A
Advertisements During a sold-out event on London’s Southbank, the BFI rounded off their Made in Britain season with a screening of Joanna Hogg’s 2007...
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
Advertisements During a sold-out event on London’s Southbank, the BFI rounded off their Made in Britain season with a screening of Joanna Hogg’s 2007...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Upon its original cinematic release in 1991, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast – based upon the classic French fairytale La Belle et...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Arguably the jewel in the crown of the BFI’s recently launched Jean Gabin: Working Class Hero to Godfather season, a new StudioCanal/Cinémathèque...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Is there any meat still to be found on the rotting bones of the mythical ‘zombie apocalypse’ which purveyors of horror have...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Piggy (2012), the debut thriller from Kieron Hawkes, is a disturbing depiction of what happens when society’s moral compass goes awry and...