Films around Cheltenham from 1/12/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 31, 2021 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

The Cineworlds Cineworld, Cheltenham, has one potentially interesting film: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. The Picturehouse chain showed it weeks ago. What a pity we don’t have one of those. It’s a period biopic about the Victorian photographer Louis Wain, who took somewhat psychedelic pictures of cats. As a result he was considered mentally… [continues]

Freeview films 25/12/21 to 31/12/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 24, 2021 Freeview highlights 2 Comments

World Cinema Tuesday (28/12) 01:20 Film4 Wings of Desire (1987). Powerful and poetic Wim Wenders fantasy-romance about an angel (brilliant Bruno Ganz) who falls in love with a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) and desires to become mortal. Haunted and haunting German classic. … [continues]

Freeview films 18/12/21 to 24/12/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 18, 2021 Uncategorized Leave a comment

World Cinema There doesn’t seem to be any. This is a local Christmas for local people. Stephen Ilott’s Picks Saturday (18/12) 14:00 BBC2 Great Expectations (1946). David Lean’s unsurpassed black-and-white version of Dickens’s most perfectly realised novel, a tale of cruelty and obsession as strange as any… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 18/12/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 17, 2021 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

[Big picture: the Spider-Man we liked, from Sam Raimi’s 2002 original. Boy, could Toby Maguire wear a sweater.] I really have a lot on this week, so you’ll have to see what sense you can make of the various websites yourself. The only really interesting film event is my Cool Yule show and party, at… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 11/12/21

By John MorrishDecember 11, 2021December 11, 2021 Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Cineworlds New from Friday: Clifford:The Big Red Dog (2021), children’s live/action, with John Cleese, whose most prominent appearances these days seem to be on Twitter; and Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest in the endless franchise. This time Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is exposed as the sticky-fingered superhero and Dr Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has… [continues]

Freeview films from 11/12/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 10, 2021 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Saturday (11/12) 21:30 BBC4 Stieg Larssons Millenium Episode 5 (2010). Better known as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Part 1. Swedish with English subtitles. … [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 4/12/21

By John MorrishDecember 4, 2021 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Cineworlds Some Harry Potter reruns. Some Matrix reruns. A new Resident Evil called Welcome to Raccoon City. A live event-cinema thing featuring the pomaded poltroon Andre Rieu, my late mum’s favourite. Another event=cinema thing featuring Gorillaz, probably aimed at a slightly different audience. Also, something about Monsta X, apparently a K-Pop band. And The… [continues]

Freeview films 4/12/21 to 10/12/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 4, 2021 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Saturday (4/12) 21:30 BBC4 Stieg Larssons Millenium Episode 4 (2010). The second part of The Girl Who Played With Fire. In Swedish, Italian and French, with subtitles. … [continues]

Topsy-Turvy

By John MorrishDecember 4, 2021 Films of the Week Leave a comment

Mike Leigh’s first venture into the musical and out-and-out costume drama, this is the story of how playwright W. S. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) and composer Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner) created The Mikado (1885), the comic opera that saved their careers. It brings to life the nature of creative partnerships, the world of musical theatre, and the wider… [continues]

Stephen Sondheim: 22/3/30 to 26/11/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamDecember 4, 2021 Obituaries Leave a comment

A personal appreciation by Tony Palmer, film director and writer I had the privilege of working with Stephen Sondheim for the ‘musicals’ episode of my TV series All You Need Is Love (1977). Unlike many of his songs, Sondheim was lucid and simple, emphasising his debt to, and friendship with, his mentor and ‘adopted’ father, Oscar… [continues]