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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston |Richard G. Combs
An orphaned child struggles to survive the insanities he encounters in the aftermath of the Second World War in Tsukamoto Shinya’s timely period drama. 17 October 2024Prolific since his breakthrough independent works of the 1980s and 90s (the Tetsuo films among them), Tsukamoto Shinya’s directorial output has slowed in the last decade.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston |Richard G. Combs |Leigh Singer
Divisive? ¡Claro que sí! In Jacques Audiard’s latest, the veteran director of blistering dramas such as A Prophet (2009) and Rust and Bone (2012) channels the improbable dream logic of a hepped-up telenovela into a riotous trans musical about crime and redemption. Ruling with terror over the streets of Mexico, the snarling crime kingpin Manitas del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón) kidnaps a talented but under-achieving lawyer called Rita (Zoe Saldaña) and makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Richard G. Combs |Jessica Kiang |Philip Concannon
What is most admirable, first of all, about Halloween is what it is not: despite its setting in the sort of snug, small Mid-Western town which has been host of late to many a rampaging Z-feature mutant (and prompted some equally misbegotten critical theses on the Family), it cannot really be described at all in terms sociological or psychological.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
independentnews.com | Richard G. Combs
Not sure how I noticed this, but I was surprised to find that my 10-cent bottle refund fee is taxable. So the refund fee is 0.10 + .1025 x .10 = $0.11025. COSTCO places an A after taxable items, Trader Joes puts a T before the item. When I pointed this out to Trader Joes, they didn’t believe it until they saw it. If I take the bottle to a refund center, if I can find one, do I get $0.11025 back? Unlikely. Since most of us just toss the bottles in the recycle bin, who gets the refund fee?
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Richard G. Combs |Jessica Kiang
Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature offers a philosophical view of euthanasia with its gentle story two old friends, played by Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, navigating the realities of death.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston |Richard G. Combs
M. Night Shyamalan’s taut puzzle box of a film confounds audience loyalties as doting dad and ruthless killer Cooper (Josh Hartnett) finds himself surrounded by FBI at a teen concert. 10 August 2024“I have a dark side,” says a mother (Marnie McPhail) menacingly to fireman Cooper Adams (Josh Hartnett), as she pushes for a reconciliation between their respective, once inseparable tween daughters.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Brooke |Adam Scovell |David Denby |Richard G. Combs
One of the first written words I committed to memory was ‘Konec’, or the Czech for ‘The End’, a by-product of Czechoslovak animated shorts forming a surprisingly staple part of 1970s BBC childrens’ programming.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |Michael Brooke |David Denby |Richard G. Combs
It’s impossible to underestimate the influence of Richard Lester’s Beatles collaboration A Hard Day’s Night, released 60 years ago on 6 July 1964. Its imagery of the Fab Four rapidly entered the lexicon of popular culture, its antic approach to pop music on screen going on to influence everything from fashion, attitudes and culture to music videos and MTV.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Richard G. Combs |Richard Roud |Lizzie Francke |Queline Meadows
Ships that pass in the night. John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), about a strip-club entrepreneur in debt to the Mob, was apparently dreamt up in the course of an evening with Martin Scorsese.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | David Denby |Richard G. Combs |Chloe Walker |Sam Wigley
This essay in our Summer 1974 issue explored Francis Ford Coppola’s study of a paranoid wiretapper living in a world where privacy can be bought and sold. 4 July 2024When Francis Ford Coppola insisted that he made The Godfather for the freedom big money would bring him to work on his own personal projects, many people jeered at what they took to be the guilty old Hollywood bull, the promise so often made, so often not delivered. Well, Coppola has delivered and the cynics stand mute.
