Arjun Sajip
Web Editor @Apollo_Magazine. Formerly Reviews Ed @SightSoundMag. Arts nerd (@BBC_Culture, @FT, @IndieWire, @Cineaste_Mag, @CinemaScopeMag, @ArtReview_ & others)
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1 month ago |
bfi.org.uk | David WestReviews |David West |Mark Asch |Arjun Sajip
A mega-hit in China, the sequel to 2019’s NE ZHA demolished box office records to become the highest grossing animated feature film ever made. However, it presents a potentially challenging prospect for audiences not versed in Chinese mythology or anyone who hasn’t seen the opening instalment. Director Jiao Zi, aka Yu Yang, picks up where the first movie left off as pint-sized demon-child hero Ne Zha and his pal, dragon prince Ao Bing, are resurrected by Ne Zha’s master, the portly Taoist Taiyi.
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1 month ago |
bfi.org.uk | Mark AschReviews |Mark Asch |Arjun Sajip |Anton Bitel
“One of the greatest compliments I ever got (well, it seemed like a compliment to me, anyway) was when Mr. Spielberg told me I’d missed my era as a screenwriter – that I would have had a ball in the 40s,” David Koepp once told the film scholar David Bordwell. He’s found the next best thing writing scripts directed by modern workflow gurus like David Fincher, and now the one-man studio Steven Soderbergh.
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1 month 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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Jan 16, 2025 |
bfi.org.uk | Guy Lodge |Catherine Wheatley |Jessica Kiang |Arjun Sajip
“I could spend the rest of my life here,” says Margaret, a teenager played with a garish digital facelift by Robin Wright, as she snuggles up to her high school sweetheart Richard (Tom Hanks, given the same eerie CG botox treatment) early on in Here.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Jessica Kiang |Arjun Sajip |Simran Hans
Fiction is littered with unwanted children. Their lots are rarely happy. From Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, these orphans are, as Dickens has it, pale with anxiety and sadness and the closeness of their prison. Longing for love while looking like death. Opening with a series of deformed, grimacing portraits – faces snarled into rictuses, as if Francis Bacon’s screaming portraits had sprung to terrible life – The Girl with the Needle takes Dickens’s simile horribly literally.
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Wondering whether to watch ‘A Different Man’? Maybe just listen to ‘Seen and Not Seen’. It’ll save you two hours, it’s more fun AND more haunting, it tells essentially the same story with more internal coherence. Plus the music is better https://t.co/BmazvPUBtZ
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‘The Plains’ is the best new film I’ve seen in the last 12 months. A three-hour docufiction might seem a tough sell for commercial distribution, but I don’t think there’s ever been a better time for a film like this to find a big audience – especially since the Jeanne Dielman #1. https://t.co/CBoVzTbkeG
