Topical films this week

By John MorrishAugust 27, 2021 Topical films Leave a comment

This would be a very good week to seek out Kajaki: The True Story (2014), a gripping and visceral account of the Kajaki Dam incident of 2006, when a small British patrol stumbled into a clutch of landmines in Helmand, Afghanistan, left behind by the Soviets. The film deals with the explosion and the chaos… [continues]

Freeview films 29 August to 3 September

By Film Cheltenham TeamAugust 27, 2021 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema FILM OF THE WEEK By Sim Fox On Friday (3/9) at 01:35, Film4 is showing Force Majeure (2014), overlooked by Cheltenham Film Society in 2015. Tomas and Ebba are a well-heeled Scandinavian couple on a skiing holiday in the Alps with their two young children. Faced with a supposedly controlled avalanche that looks like… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 28/8/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamAugust 26, 2021August 27, 2021 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

YourScreen YourScreen, the Cheltenham-based streaming service, has managed to extend the run of the excellent Summer Survivors until 19 September. Time for Love, Those Who Remained and But Beautiful also run until then. Window To the Sea ends on 5 September and Calamity on 12 September. More on all of those films here. The Guildhall… [continues]

Freeview films 21-28 August

By John MorrishAugust 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Freeview highlights, Uncategorized Leave a comment

FILMS OF THE WEEK The Guardians by John Russell The Guardians (Les Guardians), from 2017, is on BBC2 at 00:00 (Midnight) on Saturday 21/8. Set during WW1, the film features Nathalie Baye (la scripte in Truffaut’s Day for Night), who is superb as Hortense, the matriarch of a French farming family coping without their men, who… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 21/8/21

By John MorrishAugust 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Uncategorized Leave a comment

YourScreen.net A reminder that two of YourScreen‘s season of films are coming to an end on Saturday (22/8/21), The Outside Story and Summer Survivors. I hear that YourScreen are trying to extend the run of Summer Survivors, and I have been in touch with the distributors about the possibility of an actual screening of it… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 14/8/21

By John MorrishAugust 12, 2021August 20, 2021 Uncategorized Leave a comment

14/8/21 to 20/8/21 YourScreen.net The YourScreen ‘Summer of Hope’ season continues online. Details here. The new film becoming available this week is Calamity. Calamity (2020) A biography of the true-life Calamity Jane, real name Martha Jane Cannary. Directed by Rémi Chayé in what is referred to as an ‘outline-less’ animation style, with rather beautiful backdrops… [continues]

Alicia Silverstone

By John MorrishAugust 12, 2021 Odds and ends Leave a comment

For the Telegraph Magazine, 1995. Looking at it now, I think I was a bit mean about her. A year ago, Alicia Silverstone was the “Aerosmith babe”, celebrated for appearing in the American hard-rock band’s videos, wearing inadequate clothing and a provocative expression. Her prize was the coveted “Best Video Of All Time” award from… [continues]

Freeview films 14-20 August

By John MorrishAugust 12, 2021August 13, 2021 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

FILM OF THE WEEK Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995), starring Alicia Silverstone, is loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. Cher, the Silverstone character, is a rich young woman who wants to fix other girls’ romantic lives, just like Emma Woodhouse. Unlike Emma, she does it by taking them to the mall, doing their hair and make-up… [continues]

On YourScreen: ‘Summer of Hope’

By John MorrishAugust 6, 2021September 10, 2021 Uncategorized, YourScreen Leave a comment

YourScreen, the Cheltenham-based streaming service, has an interesting collection of new foreign-language and independent films at the moment, under the ‘Summer of Hope’ banner. This is part of ‘Film Feels’ project devised by the BFI Film Hub Midlands, which funnels money from the National Lottery, the film industry and the Department of Culture, Media and… [continues]

Freeview films on TV 7/8/21 to 13/8/71

By John MorrishAugust 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

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