Freeview films 22/1/22 (a palindrome) to 27/1/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJanuary 22, 2022January 22, 2022 Freeview highlights, Uncategorized Leave a comment

World Cinema Sunday (23/1) 01:25 BBC2 Personal Shopper (2016) A powerful supernatural thriller by Olivier Assayas, the second film he has directed featuring Kristen Stewart, who plays Maureen, the personal shopper of the title, working for Kyra, an aloof and demanding supermodel… [continues]

Freeview films 15/1/22 to 21/1/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJanuary 15, 2022 Freeview highlights 2 Comments

World Cinema Saturday (15/1) 22:00 BBC2 Yuli (2018). Yuli (BBC2, 22.00, Sat 15th) is billed as a biopic of the Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta, but as a film it is much more than that. It is directed by the renowned Spanish… [continues]

Freeview films 8/1/22 to 14/1/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJanuary 8, 2022January 8, 2022 Freeview highlights 2 Comments

World Cinema Sunday (9/1) 00:10 BBC2 After the Storm (2016). Tremendous Hirokazu Koreeda family drama in which a dodgy private detective (Hiroshi Abe) tries to reconnect with his family after the death of his father. Weather plays a part. Subtle and moving. Koreeda is a master. Japanese with English subtitles. Monday… [continues]

Freeview Films 1/1/22 to 7/1/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJanuary 1, 2022January 1, 2022 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Wednesday (5/1) 01:50 Film4 Raw (2016). This is the Julia Ducournau shocker about a vegetarian veterinary student who is introduced to a decadent subculture and eats raw meat for the first time. Soon she can’t get enough. Sexy, violent, bloody, extreme. In French with English subtitles. Go for it. Stephen Ilott’s Picks… [continues]

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]

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]

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]