Ken Hollings

Mar 27, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jonathan Romney |Adam Scovell |Tony Rayns |Ken Hollings

The director’s connection of The Zone of Interest to the war in Gaza has aroused controversy in Hollywood and beyond, and sparked debate around the right of Jews, in Israel and outside, to criticise that nation. 27 March 2024By Jonathan RomneyWhen it premiered in Cannes last May, it might have been possible to read Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest as straightforwardly a film about the Holocaust and the mindset of its perpetrators.

Mar 27, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Ken Hollings |Geoff Andrew |Nick Pinkerton |James Naremore

On a recent tour of Toho Studios’ sound stages in the suburbs of Tokyo, where filming was already under way for Mothra, the first in a new series of monster movies aimed at pre-teens, an American visitor enquired whether Godzilla was around. “No,” the studio guide replied simply. “He’s gone.”“Gone?”“He died in his last movie. He’s gone.”Which happens to be true.

Mar 25, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Geoff Andrew |Adam Scovell |Tony Rayns |Ken Hollings

Many of those filmgoers familiar with the work of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Víctor Erice consider him one of the world’s greatest living filmmakers. To many others, however, his name means nothing whatsoever. The problem is one of visibility – in terms both of the man himself, who is unusually reclusive for an acclaimed filmmaker, and of his output.

Dec 15, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Claire Smith |Ken Hollings |Pamela Hutchinson

By the time they made The Red Shoes (1948), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were major figures in the story of British cinema. Under the unique, joint credit of ‘written, directed and produced by’ – and with a talented team of regular collaborators by their side – they created an unrivalled series of bold and beautiful films that continue to influence contemporary fields of art, design, music and dance. The Red Shoes is often described as the zenith of their filmmaking.

Dec 15, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Claire Smith |Ken Hollings |Pamela Hutchinson

By the time they made The Red Shoes (1948), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were major figures in the story of British cinema. Under the unique, joint credit of ‘written, directed and produced by’ – and with a talented team of regular collaborators by their side – they created an unrivalled series of bold and beautiful films that continue to influence contemporary fields of art, design, music and dance. The Red Shoes is often described as the zenith of their filmmaking.