Crossing the Streams

By David SaitchAugust 26, 2022September 2, 2022 Crossing the Streams Leave a comment

The Amazonian Swamp Amazon Prime Video is anything but Prime; and probably most people have it because they subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service for free and expedited delivery of packages they bought but don’t really need. When you load it and look at the interface, you really are in a jungle, and it can be… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from August 20, 2022

The Roses On Thursday 25th there is an evening screening of The Good Boss, which we recommended with great enthusiasm in last week’s newsletter. It’s your only chance, so do try to see it. Javier Bardem’s performance restored my faith in screen acting. The new film of the week is McEnroe, a documentary about the… [continues]

Freeview films from 20 August 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamAugust 20, 2022August 20, 2022 Freeview highlights 1 Comment

World Cinema Sunday (21/8) 00:30 BBC2 Foxtrot (2017) Directed by Israeli filmmaker Samuel Munoz and winner of the Grand Jury prize at Venice. Tel Aviv couple Michael (Lior Ashkenazi) and Dafna (Sarah Adler) receive a visit from Israeli Defence Force officials to tell them their son Jonathan has been… [continues]

Psycho

By Sim FoxAugust 20, 2022August 20, 2022 Films of the Week, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Warning, spoilers Psycho must represent one of the most abrupt changes of tone and style in the work of an auteur director. Hitchcock’s 1959 North by Northwest is a glossy, technicolor spy thriller with amiable, old Hollywood A-lister Cary Grant. Psycho is a macabre psychosexual nightmare, a shocking blast of modernity which in cinema terms… [continues]

Crossing the Streams

By David SaitchAugust 19, 2022August 20, 2022 Crossing the Streams Leave a comment

Streaming Recommendations In this new addition to Film Cheltenham we will be adding recommendations for films on streaming platforms. The films might be on streaming behemoths like Netflix or Amazon’s Prime Video, or on more niche streaming services, like the BFI Player or MUBI. They may be great Friday night films, or more challenging works,… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 13 August 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamAugust 13, 2022August 14, 2022 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

The Roses The Roses has more showings of Joyride, reviewed with no great enthusiasm last week, but the main attraction, if that’s the phrase I am looking for, is DC League of Super-Pets. However, tucked away next Friday morning at 11.15 is the first of just two showings of The Good Boss, directed by Fernando… [continues]

Freeview films from 13 August 2022

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World Cinema Monday (15/8) 01:10 Film4 120 BPM (2017) A young gay activist in 1980s Paris joins a group to campaign for action against the rising tide of AIDS deaths and finds that, like many such organisations, it rather accommodates the industry it is supposed to be challenging. At the… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 6 August 2022

By John MorrishAugust 6, 2022 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized 2 Comments

The Roses Nothing of note. Crawdads again, plus Olivia Colman in Joyride, an Irish film in which she plays a passenger in a taxi that is stolen by a 12-year-old boy. According to IMDB: ‘Follows Joy, a train-wreck on an adventure who is ready to give away her new-born baby. Joined by a cheeky street… [continues]

Freeview films from 6 August 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamAugust 6, 2022August 14, 2022 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Monday (8/8) 00:15 Channel 4 Bombay (1995) This week I’ve found myself writing about a lot of films I haven’t seen, and this is one of them. It sounds good. A Tamil-language drama with songs, by Mani Rathnam, it was one of the first subcontinental films to… [continues]

Films around Cheltenhamshire from 23/7/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJuly 23, 2022 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

The Roses The Princess, a film stitched together from archive footage, about a woman who has surely been exploited enough now, continues. It is joined by Minions 2: The Rise of Gru, which has been doing the rounds and the original Railway Children, directed by Lionel Jefferies, and starring, of course, Jenny Agutter. There is,… [continues]

Freeview films from 23 July 2022

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World Cinema Saturday (23/7) 23:15 Film4 Sputnik (2020). Not seen this, but I want to. I like Russian science fiction. One of my little projects is to acquire the film of Zamyatin’s extraordinary We, which was the first book censored by Lenin after the Revolution. Sadly, the cultural boycott has made doing business with Russia… [continues]

Films around Chelt (from July 16, 2022)

By John MorrishJuly 16, 2022July 16, 2022 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

The Roses Elvis, plus Everything Went Fine, the new François Ozon film about a young woman who wants to take her 85-year-old father to Dignitas (or similar) in Switzerland to end his life. That’s Entertainment! With Sophie Marceau and Charlotte Rampling. Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday evening, if you want to <irony> fight your way through… [continues]

Freeview films from 16 July 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamJuly 16, 2022July 18, 2022 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Saturday (16/7) 23:15 Film4 Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020). A delightful Japanese micro-budget time-travelling comedy about a young bloke who is suddenly addressed by a face on his iMac. It’s himself, two minutes into the future. He shows his friends in the cafe where he works (above). A… [continues]

James Caan 26/3/40 to 6/7/22

By John MorrishJuly 9, 2022 Obituaries Leave a comment

Normally I rely on Pamela to do my instant obituaries, but she’s gallivanting somewhere, so here’s a link to the Wikipedia page. He was tremendous in The Godfather, of course, which everyone should watch more than once. I do have an anecdote. Here’s something just posted on Twitter by my old sparring partner Paul Myers,… [continues]

Films around Cheltonistan, from 9/7/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJuly 9, 2022 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Roses To Infinity and beyond, or as least as far as Tewkesbury, comes Lightyear, directed by Angus MacLane, the so-called definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear. Also showing is Between Two Worlds, directed by Emmanuel Carrère and starring, as seems mandatory for most French films released here, Juliette Binoche. She plays a writer who… [continues]

Freeview films from 9 July 2022

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World Cinema Monday (11/7) 00:50 Film4 Blade of the Immortal (2017) (pictured) Ultra-violent Japanese nasty. ‘It’s a stylish slash fest, which delivers visceral thrills along with quietly striking moments of beauty,’ said Wendy Ide in the Observer. Well, good for Wendy. I hate these films. The Japanese people… [continues]

Films in town and around from July 2, 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamJuly 2, 2022July 2, 2022 Films around Cheltenham 2 Comments

By PW and JM The Roses Jurassic World: Dominion makes it to the Roses the week. The Quiet Girl, the Gaelic language film screened at the Guildhall a few weeks ago, is also part of this week’s programme. The new film showing is Good Luck to You Leo Grande, directed by Sophie Hyde and starring… [continues]

Freeview films from 2 July 2022

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World Cinema Monday (4/7) 01:05 Film4 Custody (2017). Xavier Legrand’s debut film begins In a courtroom in northern France. Antoine (Denis Ménochet), a hospital security guard, seeks joint custody of his 11-year-old son Julien, after the acrimonious break-up of his marriage. But is Antoine the model citizen and caring father he seems?… [continues]

Freeview films from 25 June 2022

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World Cinema Saturday (25/6) 22:30 BBC2 Borg vs. McEnroe (2017). A rather good dramatisation of the rivalry between the two tennis greats of the 1980s, with excellent performances by Sverrir Gudnason and Shia LaBeouf in the title roles. I like Shia, especially since The Peanut Butter Falcon, one of my favourite modern films. (JM) Monday… [continues]

Films around Cheltenhamshire 25/6/22 to 1/7/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJune 25, 2022 Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

Sensible previews by PW. Sarcastic asides by JM. The Roses It’s another varied week at The Roses in Tewkesbury, starting with The Drover’s Wife, an Australian ‘Western’ starring Leah Purcell, who also wrote and directed it. Molly Johnson (pictured) is heavily pregnant and trying to run the remote family farm and look after her family,… [continues]