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  • 5 days ago | bfi.org.uk | Henry Miller |Chris Shields |Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman

    Forget about the Queen, James Bond, and the NHS: the centrepiece of Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics was the industrial revolution. 28 Years Later is a zombie film, just about, but it is far more so a vision of Britain in a future Dark Age that resembles the distant past, not only pre-industrial but practically pre-English, a lawless land of warring tribes.

  • 1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Chris Shields |Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman

    Red Path confronts viewers with the kind of shocking political violence many would rather ignore. Based on a true story, Tunisian theatre and film director Lotfi Achour’s relentlessly grim drama follows a young Tunisian shepherd named Nizar who is beheaded by the mujahideen when he and his younger cousin Achraf (Ali Helali) go in search of a water source on occupied land.

  • Jan 13, 2025 | filmcomment.com | Chris Shields |Sarah Fensom

    This article appeared in the January 10, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer, 1981)In 2024, Best Buy, the ubiquitous big-box consumer technology retailer, began phasing out DVDs and Blu-rays from its stores.

  • Oct 29, 2024 | mubi.com | Chris Shields

    At the end of a long corridor, a door creaks open to reveal a blinding light and a thick fog. The figure of a woman appears, as if from the beyond. Foreboding organ music accompanies her sashay toward us, cobwebs breaking against her ample curves.

  • Jul 28, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | James Lattimer Festivals |James Lattimer |Kim Newman |Chris Shields

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses premiered at Cannes in 2023, a few days after a closely run, ideologically charged Turkish election which threw up questions about the country’s future course.

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