Rebecca Harrison

Apr 16, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Arjun Sajip |Tom Charity |Rebecca Harrison |Catherine Wheatley

Halfway through writer/director Jeymes Samuel’s 2021 spaghetti western The Harder They Fall, there’s a seemingly throwaway bit of dialogue: Jim Beckwourth (RJ Cyler), who fancies himself as the fastest gun in the West, brags, “Like they say in the Book of Clarence, ‘Can’t no man outspeed me.’”This slightly incongruous line was, it turns out, a carefully laid Easter egg for Samuel’s new film, The Book of Clarence, which transforms the director’s apocrypha into big-screen gospel.

Apr 15, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Tom Charity |Rebecca Harrison |Catherine Wheatley |Henry Miller

Ethnography is deeply rooted in the traditions of the European film festival circuit and the arthouse sector that developed alongside it, a project espousing cultural curiosity and paying lip service to diversity, but somewhat shaded by post-colonial whitewashing. Nevertheless, it has to be an encouraging sign that filmmakers from Bhutan (The Monk and the Gun, 2023), Nepal (Shambhala, 2024) and, in this case, Mongolia are finally getting homegrown films noticed at an international level.

Apr 10, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Rebecca Harrison |Catherine Wheatley |Henry Miller |John Bleasdale

Back to Black sets itself up as a celebration of Amy Winehouse’s musical genius, and a rejection of the sensationalised image cultivated by the tabloid press, which fixated on her chaotic relationships, hardened attitude and substance abuse. Attentive to her gentle love for grandmother Cynthia, the film situates Winehouse in domestic spaces (her Jewish paternal household; her flat in Camden) as often as on the stages where she became famous.

Feb 5, 2024 | midlothianview.com | Luke Jackson |Rebecca Harrison

Monday February 5th 2024 In the picture from left to right are: Midlothian Council’s Cabinet Member for sustainability Councillor Dianne Alexander, the council’s Digital Client Services Manager Marco Reece-Heal, Turing Trust Operations Supervisor Sam Welch and Turing Trust Donations Co-ordinator Will Bellinger-Smith. Written by Midlothian View Reporter, Luke JacksonChildren in schools in Malawi are to benefit from 122 projectors donated by Midlothian Council.

Jan 29, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Rebecca Harrison |Catherine Wheatley |Henry Miller

As with the recent Talk to Me (2022), Alberto Corredor adds to a long, cursed legacy of body-swapping witchcraft with his story of a sack-wearing necromancer confined in a pub basement. 29 January 2024By Anton Bitel“You said your dad was dead,” says Katie (Ruby Barker) to her best friend and fellow orphan Iris (Freya Allan) to which she replies: “Well… he is now”. News has just come in that Iris’s long estranged father Owen (Peter Mullan) was recently killed in a fire.