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3 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Tom Charity |Katie McCabe
Death is patient. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines has been a long time coming, some 14 years after the last in the franchise – and while every entry is inscribed with the sense of an ending, given that they are all chronicles of deaths foretold, Steven Quale’s Final Destination 5 (2011) seemed genuinely to bring the franchise’s narrative arc full circle, looping back to the start of James Wong’s Final Destination (2000).
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3 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Tom Charity |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson
It may not feature physical violence, but India Donaldson’s patient story of a teenage girl enduring the petty disputes and selfishness of her father and his best friend during a three-day hike is its own kind of backwoods horror. 14 May 2025The first feature by writer-director India Donaldson makes a virtue of simplicity. It’s set over the course of three days, and for the most part three characters share the screen.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | Pamela Hutchinson |Roger Luckhurst |Tom Charity
The prolific Korean auteur’s minimalist story centred around four untrained actors working on a skit may lack the visual inventiveness of his last two features, but the real beauty is in the performances. 19 August 2024Reviewed from the 2024 Locarno Film FestivalEven when working at his recent rate of two features per year, Hong Sangsoo still manages to surprise.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | Chris Neilan |Roger Luckhurst |Tom Charity |Pamela Hutchinson
“It’s everyone’s responsibility, because we are all linked to this story.” Saint Helena, an isolated island a thousand miles from the coast of west Africa, a British colony since 1659 and Napoleon’s place of death, was for centuries accessible only by ship.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | Pamela Hutchinson |Roger Luckhurst |Tom Charity
Reviewed from the 2024 Locarno Film FestivalAndy Warhol’s debut film Sleep (1963) captured his lover John Giorno slumbering for more than five hours. Now from Radu Jude comes Sleep #2, which is considerably shorter, but culled from a year’s worth of webcam footage of Warhol’s grave – here the subject also sleeps, according to a more finite, poetical definition. It’s a desktop film, as the digital artefacting and wandering watermark attest, but also an observational piece.
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