CIFF Lecture Invitation

By John MorrishSeptember 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Leslie Sheldon, the indefatigable director of Cheltenham International Film Festival, is putting on his first annual festival lecture at the Parabola Arts Centre of Cheltenham Ladies College on Tuesday October 4, which is next week, at 5.30pm. He has kindly invited readers of this page or the newsletter to attend the talk, which is being… [continues]

The Tivoli

By John MorrishSeptember 25, 2021 Film news 6 Comments

O ye of little faith! I’ve bored everybody to death this year by telling them that the new Tivoli cinema at the back of the Regent Arcade in Cheltenham would a) never open and b) be crap. It opened this week. Yesterday, I wandered in to have a look. It’s rather nice. It is a… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 25 September

By John MorrishSeptember 25, 2021September 25, 2021 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

Well, things seem to have looked up a bit this week. One new film at The Roses in Tewkesbury and a handful at Cineworld in Cheltenham. The Roses The Roses has, at various points in the week, The Last Bus, Stillwater, and Our Ladies, all of which we already know about. The new film is… [continues]

Freeview films 25 September to 1 October

By Film Cheltenham TeamSeptember 24, 2021September 25, 2021 Film previews 2 Comments

FILM OF THE WEEK This week’s film of the week is Under the Skin (2013), which is on Friday (1/10) at 01:30 on Film4. Here’s the preview, by Steve Sasanow. World Cinema Saturday (25/9) 21:00 BBC4 The King’s Choice (2016). Tremendous historical drama about the German invasion of Norway in… [continues]

Monos

By John RussellSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Films of the Week Leave a comment

Monos (2019). Directed by Alejandro Landes. Thursday (30/9), 23:25, Film4. Rent from Rakuten (cheapest), Amazon, Google, YouTube, BFI Player and Curzon. Buy from Amazon, Google, Sky Store, YouTube and Rakuten. With echoes of Lord of the Flies (1963) and Apocalypse Now (1979), Monos follows a group of child soldiers, the Monos, in the Colombian mountains… [continues]

Under The Skin

By Steve SasanowSeptember 24, 2021 Films of the Week Leave a comment

Under The Skin (2013). Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Friday (1/10), 01:30, Film4. Stream from BFI or BFI Player on Amazon. Rent or buy from Apple. Anyone with a fantasy about alien abduction should definitely see Under The Skin – or, then again, maybe not. That is only if you would like to be seduced by… [continues]

Freeview films 18 to 24 September

By John MorrishSeptember 18, 2021 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

FILM OF THE WEEK Inside Man (2006), directed by Spike Lee. Paramount, Monday (20/9) at 22:55. Previewed by John Russell This is unusual territory for Spike Lee but definitely worth a look. Denzel Washington and Clive Owen are pitted against each other as hostage negotiator and taker, in a bank heist with unusual features. One is… [continues]

Music and Movements

By John MorrishSeptember 18, 2021 Odds and ends Leave a comment

The composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was profoundly catholic, in the true sense of the word: he was a universalist, broad in his spiritual and musical understanding, sympathies and interests. But he was also deeply connected with the rituals and personalities of 19th and 20th century Anglo-Catholicism, a strain in English religion that has not always… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 18/9/2021

By John MorrishSeptember 18, 2021September 18, 2021 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

Another dreary week for film in and around Cheltenham. Has everybody given up the ghost, I ask? Or have the muses of cinema deserted us? Last time I looked, they were on the outside wall of The Brewery, covered in vandal-proof perspex, having escaped the destruction of their home, The Odeon. I hope they are… [continues]

Jean Paul-Belmondo (6.4.1933 to 6.9.2021)

By Pamela WeaverSeptember 10, 2021 Obituaries Leave a comment

Le Magnifique This week European cinema lost one of its greatest stars of the 20thcentury: Jean-Paul Belmondo. Belmondo did it all: after a spell as an amateur boxer he trained as an actor and performed in theatre – a medium to which he returned briefly some 30 years into his film career. In 1959, Jean-Luc… [continues]