World Cinema Monday (31/10)      01:55   Film4   Savage (Xue bao) (2018 ) A straightforward but visually sumptuous action movie set on a frozen mountain in northeastern China. Two detectives are drinking in a bar and vying for the affections of a local doctor when three hoodlums arrive and kill one of the buddies. The other,… [continues]

World Cinema Saturday (22/10)        00:30    Film4 & All4             Deerskin (2019)  This very black (or possibly beige) comedy is another weird and wonderful triumph for maverick auteur Quentin Dupieux, whose follow up movie Mandibles, is the most original French film I’ve seen for years. As in Mandibles,… [continues]

World Cinema Monday (17/10)   01:35   Film4             Night of the Kings (2020) MACA (Maison d’Arrêt et de Correction d’Abijan) is the main prison of the Ivory Coast’s capital and a world unto itself. Philippe Lacôte’s second feature follows Roman (Bakary Koné), a new arrival, who is forced to entertain fellow… [continues]

World Cinema Saturday (8/10)       23:20   Film4                    Memories of Murder (2003) This early crime drama from Bong Joon Ho (of Parasite fame) broke box office records at home. Based on historical events, it shows two dim and crude cops sent to investigate a double murder… [continues]

World Cinema Sunday (25/9)          23:50   Film4   The Handmaiden (2016) I’ve written about this lots of times, and I’m not really that big a fan. So I’ll reprint approximately what I wrote before: ‘Park Chan-Wook’s glossy period thriller, set during Japan’s long occupation of Korea: a crime story with lesbian trimmings, or… [continues]