Anton Bitel

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“I’m just a movie guy, I don’t know much about sports,” says old video store clerk Hank of the coming basketball game between local lovable losers the Warriors and LA’s all-star the Lakers, where the outcome seems a foregone conclusion (“we definitely cannot beat LA”).

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Samuel Thomas Davies |Ben Nicholson |Simran Hans |Anton Bitel

Using the couple’s own tape recordings and a patchwork of archive clips, Kevin Macdonald takes an intriguing show-don’t-tell approach to the first 18 months of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s move to New York in late 1971. 11 April 2025When John Lennon and Yoko Ono left the stately pile of Tittenhurst Park outside Ascot to move into a modest tworoom apartment on Bank Street in New York’s West Village, they installed a TV at the foot of the bed, got in, and never turned it off.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Ben Nicholson |Samuel Thomas Davies |Simran Hans |Anton Bitel

Uberto Pasolini trades a fantastic voyage for an intense portrait of a marriage as the long-suffering Odysseus, played by Ralph Fiennes, returns from the Trojan War. 11 April 2025Uberto Pasolini’s reworking of The Odyssey shuns spectacle to craft a potent, grown-up character study that mines the emotional core of Homer’s epic.

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Simran HansReviews |Simran Hans |Anton Bitel |Nick Davis

In France’s Jura region, a laddish 18-year-old becomes the family breadwinner when his father suddenly dies. While working on a local dairy farm, he devises a plan to win a cheesemaking competition with a cash prize of €30,000, learning important romantic and culinary lessons in the process. In rural France, on a sweltering summer’s day, a middle-aged woman dunks her bare arms into a vat of scalding milk.

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Nick Davis |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah

Jared Hess’s A Minecraft Movie is a big (and not just in budget), brash and brazen family film – so don’t by fooled by the apparent modesty of its title’s indefinite article. It is the middle word that does the heavy lifting in the first feature film to be based on Mojang Studios’ Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time.