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Feb 19, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Philip Horne
Christopher Nolan in 2000 Credit: Getty/Barbara Alper Back in the spring of 1992 there was a quiet presence in my film seminar option at University College London on Scorsese and Powell and Pressburger (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Raging Bull, The Red Shoes, The King of Comedy): a tall, pleasant-looking, preppily-dressed, self-contained young man. Some of the brightest students are shy of speaking; but taciturnity doesn’t always equal genius. This blond, serious student was mildly...
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Philip Horne
20:05 GMT on 20 July 1969: astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are aboard Apollo 11’s Lunar Command Module, dropping steadily towards the lunar surface in humankind’s first attempt to visit another world. “Drifting to the right a little,” Buzz remarks – and then an alarm goes off, and then another, and another, until at last the transmission breaks down. The next thing we see is a desk set in front of a blue curtain, and flanked by flags: the Stars and Stripes, and the Presidential seal.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Philip Horne |Nicole Flattery |Adam Scovell
News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Lily Gladstone caused a minor stir in Hollywood in September 2023, when she announced she’d be campaigning for the 2024 Oscars in the Best Actress category for her part as Mollie Burkhart, the Osage woman with oil headrights who falls victim to the machinations of white settlers, in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi
It was a rainy London afternoon in 1985 when I first saw Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 masterpiece – this beautiful, troubling movie that I love, admire and doubt. My impressions of the film have evolved since that first viewing as a seven-year-old girl in her great-aunt’s East Finchley lounge. I have learned more – about the Archers (as Powell and Pressburger branded themselves and their team of collaborators), about colonialism and about movies.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi |Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne
The new film from Todd Haynes confronts us with the private reverberations of our appetite for celebrity scandal, says Ibrahim Azam, one of the critics on this year's LFF Critics Mentorship Programme. 17 November 2023By Ibrahim AzamSince the advent of the tabloid, we’ve all become addicted to sensationalism. Scandals sell, especially when they concern our beloved celebrities. They scratch that itch of curiosity we all feel about famous lives.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne |Adam Scovell |Nicole Flattery
Informational films showing life in British hospitals reflected new postwar realities, yet speaking parts for Caribbean nurses – a significant section of the workforce – were few. Since its inception 75 years ago, the NHS has used film as its vital mode of media communication. As the demographics of the health service changed, this moving-image output adapted to include, train and appeal to a new, more international workforce.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Philip Horne |Ian Christie |Rachel Pronger |Michael Brooke
News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. When I interviewed Martin Scorsese for the October issue of Sight and Sound about Killers of the Flower Moon, I took the opportunity to ask for his thoughts on Powell and Pressburger. He’s one of their most impassioned advocates, combining scholarly knowledge and a career-long creative engagement with their oeuvre both together and individually.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Rachel Pronger |Philip Horne
Having made his feature debut with pandemic amnesia tale Apples (2020), Greek director Christos Nikou follows up with another leftfield sci-fi tinged drama, Fingernails. Making his English-language debut, Nikou presents a world in which couples can take a definitive test to find out if they are compatible in love, involving the removal of a fingernail from each party. Partners who score 100% are a perfect match, 50 means only one of the pair is in love and zero, neither.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Rachel Pronger |Lou Thomas |Philip Horne |Georgia Korossi
Cannes prizewinner How to Have Sex is an exuberant but devastating take on female friendship and teenage sexual awakening. 1 November 2023By Rachel ProngerNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Following three best friends as they embark on a rowdy girls’ holiday on the Greek party island of Malia, Molly Manning Walker’s blistering first feature How to Have Sex captures the chaos, mischief and excess of British teens abroad.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
criterion.com | Philip Horne |Maitland McDonagh
A beautiful, intense woman stands in a large, dusky room, lit only by an oil lamp, her eyes wide in concern and something not far from panic, her eyebrows tremulously registering every thought and fear that passes through her mind, as she listens to the terrible quiet of the big house where she lives with her two children.
