World Cinema Sunday (27/2)           01:00     Film4                Border (2018) You are unlikely to see anything like this in the next week.  Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by him, Isabella Eklof and John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let The Right One In) it features a breathtaking … [continues]

World Cinema Sunday (20/2)         21:00   Great Movies Action    Das Boot (1981)  (also Thursday 16:20). Wolfgang Peterson’s 1981 Das Boot (The Boat) focuses as much on the monotony and claustrophobia of military submarine life as it does on the combat and excitement. The result is a deep, layered portrait of sub-aquatic warfare… [continues]

World Cinema Monday (14/2)           01:30   Film4    Rafiki (2018). Two girls in Nairobi, from very different backgrounds, are drawn together despite the disapproval of their community. A well-liked film by Kenyan director Kwanuri Kahiu. Colourful, youthful and mostly in English. Wednesday (16/2)     01:10   Film4    The… [continues]

World Cinema Saturday (5/2)      21:00    BBC4    Persian Lessons (2020). I find myself rather intrigued by this. It’s a Holocaust film, in German, about a young German Jew who pretends to be half-Persian to avoid being exterminated. He even gives Farsi lessons to the camp commandant, despite knowing no Farsi: the language… [continues]