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3 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles
In this playful performance film, Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini performs a set of songs inspired by a collection of real-life 1960s love letters discovered after the recipient’s death in 2018. 11 May 2025In an era when romantic missives have shrunk to the late-night ‘U up?’ text, it’s easy to see how a suitcase of elaborate love letters from the 1960s and 70s fired the imagination of singer Emilíana Torrini.
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4 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman
Director Andrew Ahn’s endearing and significantly queerer update of Ang Lee’s rom com hit lets its LGBTQ+ characters behave badly, and is all the better for it.
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4 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Giovanni Marchini Camia |Alex Davidson |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman
The French director’s mid-length homage to his own filmmaking presents a funny and provocative collage of cinema history, politics, and artistic introspection. 8 May 2025The title of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me is, of course, tongue-in-cheek.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Jane Giles |Adam Nayman |Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley
Like Visconti’s erotically charged directorial debut Ossessione (1943), Motel Destino can in part be seen as a loose version of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934). Director Karim Aïnouz sets the action in the province where he was born, Ceará on the north-eastern coast of Brazil; together with cinematographer Hélène Louvart (Pina, 2011; Rocks, 2019; La chimera, 2023) he portrays an equatorial landscape fundamental to the film’s story.
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2 months ago | 
dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Bruce LaBruce |Ali Catterall |Jane Giles
In what opens like a scene from Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1942), a man in the face of death takes the time to ask what his life is all about. By peering through the Super 8 footage, he sees the aspects of his existence that challenged, shaped and surprised him, complete with naked bodies. Throughout the film, the character and the audience have to ask, where does memory end and mythology begin? And why is a memoir more potent than a dream?
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
moveablefest.com | Stephen Saito |Jane Giles |Peggy Loving |NextAli Catterall
Despite its title in reference to its setting, you can’t believe that a film is being made at “Hollywoodgate.” A former CIA base that was abandoned in Kabul when American troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2021, it was promptly repopulated by the Taliban forces that retook the country when international support vanished.
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May 20, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anita De Bellis |Christine McCloud |Jane Giles |Marc Apollloni
What is already known on this subject? Grey nomads with diabetes often go to rural and remote pharmacies as their first point of call when there are problems with medications, equipment, or a problem. Rural and remote services in Australia are limited in providing services to grey nomads who have diabetes. Little is known about the experiences of pharmacists in rural and remote locations in Australia regarding their encounters with grey nomads who have diabetes.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
nerdly.co.uk | Stuart Wright |Jane Giles
Interview: SCALA!!! co-directors Jane Giles and Ali Catterall by Stuart Wright In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to with SCALA!!! co-directors Jane Giles and Ali Catterall about the making of their documentary about the infamous London cinema and “3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life,” which include: UN CHANT D’AMOUR (1950) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) BLADE RUNNER (1982) PERFORMANCE (1970) THEATRE OF BLOOD (1973) THE WICKER MAN (1973)...
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
kingstreetcinema.co.uk | Jane Giles
By Jane GilesIn this exclusive article for the King Street Cinema, SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles remembers her cinema training at the Ipswich Film Theatre in 1988. On Saturday 6th February 1988 Ipswich’s Evening Star newspaper ran a half-page story prosaically headed ‘A whole new experience in training at IFT’.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
standard.co.uk | Jane Giles
I first discovered the Scala cinema in August 1981. I’d just turned 17 and had spent the summer holidays working night shifts cleaning planes at Gatwick Airport. It was dirty and hard but mag ical to stay up all night and see the lights, and also to be part of a crew of oddballs who were knowledgeable about movies.
