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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Arjun Sajip |Anton Bitel |Annabel Jackson |Rachel Pronger
What does it say about India that so many recent films from the subcontinent feature key scenes set on trains? Kiran Rao’s charming comedy Laapataa Ladies (2023) begins with a case of mistaken identity in the carriage of a sleeper train; almost all of Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s visceral thriller Kill (2023) is set on board a high-speed locomotive; and the Mumbai metro is a recurring location in last year’s Grand Prix winner at Cannes, All We Imagine as Light.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Annabel Jackson |Anton Bitel |Rachel Pronger |Leigh Singer
The South African photographer Ernest Cole documented apartheid with a radical directness; but in even the most candid pictures of the photographer himself there is a feeling of reserve – of some critical fact being withheld. Furtive and austere, or half obscured by the subjects he hoped to catch, such photos of Cole register his tactful mode of observation, and finally the toll of a life spent laying bare political ills.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
macaonews.org | Annabel Jackson
The recently launched Macao branch of the global Slow Food Movement celebrated Terra Madre Day yesterday with a celebratory lunch at the new UTM Café at the University of Tourism. Observed annually on 10 December, Terra Madre Day is regarded as the birthday of the Slow Food Movement, which started in Italy in 1986, and advocates for good, clean and fair food for all.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Philip Concannon |Kambole Campbell |Annabel Jackson |Philip Concannon Festivals
Numerous actors have portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the big screen over the course of the past century, but nobody comes close to Eille Norwood, who starred as Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth in 45 shorts and two features for Stoll Pictures between 1921 and 1923.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kambole Campbell |Annabel Jackson |Nick Bradshaw
Milisuthando opens with the sight of a naked woman standing before a giant statue of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg in 2014 – she is credited as ‘Mystery Braveheart’.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Nick Bradshaw |Kambole Campbell |Annabel Jackson
Don Hertzfeldt turns an unrealised musical collaboration into a wordless animated dystopia that blends inter-dimensional compositions with the broken-puzzle poetry of Mulholland Dr. (2001).
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kambole Campbell |Annabel Jackson |Nick Bradshaw
So often when we see animals in animated films they appear as mascots, pets or stand-ins for ourselves. Flow resists such categories and instead seeks an animal’s perspective of the world which humans have ruined. The last feature film by director Gints Zilbalodis, Away (2019), was an almost entirely solo effort, the Latvian animator took on everything from storyboarding to score composing and sound editing.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Annabel Jackson |Nick Bradshaw |Kim Newman
It may not have the focus and flair of How to Train Your Dragon, but Chris Sanders’ quirky tale of an unlikely bond between an upbeat android and an orphaned gosling has a lot of heart. 14 October 2024Interspecies friendships in fiction often model a pure kind of love – one unshaped by societal expectations, or defiant of them.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Annabel Jackson |Nick Bradshaw |Kim Newman
By mirroring the haphazard geometries of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s works, Mark Cousins’s hypnotic documentary attempts to access the artist’s unique way of seeing. 14 October 2024Though she was bad at navigating the art world, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was remarkable at the art.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Annabel Jackson
‘This termination, this process of shutting down, has a name: film,’ Marguerite Duras wrote in 1977. ‘Film stands for this definitive ending.’ She was writing, as part of a press release for her film The Lorry (1977), about the ‘pointless’ enterprise of film-making, its tendency to inhibit the imagination. Such language is typical of Duras, a film-maker who frequently expressed her scepticism of the medium she did much to reinvent.
