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Films around Cheltenham from 9 October

By John MorrishOctober 8, 2021 Categories: Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

The Roses The Roses has Herself and, groan, No Time to Die. Both of those I’ve written about before. The Guildhall Some signs of life at The Guildhall. On Saturday, Herself and Respect, both of which have been widely seen. Then The Nest, the yuppie nightmare film with Jude Law and Carrie Coon. An entrepreneur… [continues]

Freeview films 9/10/21 to 15/10/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamOctober 8, 2021October 8, 2021 Categories: Freeview highlights Leave a comment

Film of the Week Our real film of the week is The Mother (2003), starring Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. Here’s the write-up. I’m also intrigued, however, by The Special Relationship (2010), the third in the loose trilogy the British screenwriter Peter Morgan wrote about Tony Blair. This BBC/HBO film follows The Deal (2003) and… [continues]

The Mother

By John MorrishOctober 8, 2021 Categories: Films of the Week 2 Comments

The Mother (2003), directed by Roger Michell. English. 111 minutes. Tuesday (12/10), 21:00, BBC4. Not available elsewhere. It’s a pleasure to be able to recommend a film that you won’t be able to stream or download. I was able to track it down eventually, on a Russian pirate site, but I wouldn’t particularly encourage anyone… [continues]

YourScreen

By John MorrishOctober 1, 2021 Categories: YourScreen Leave a comment

FILM OF THE WEEK I haven’t really had a chance to look properly at the latest mini-season of films from YourScreen, the Cheltenham-based streaming service. It’s always worth a look, because it is making the effort to find interesting foreign-language and independent films. Anyway, this morning I watched Keeper (2015), a Belgian French-language feature that… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 2 October

By John MorrishOctober 1, 2021October 1, 2021 Categories: Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

The Roses The Roses in Tewkesbury has Our Ladies, Respect and The Nest, none of which is new. The Guildhall The Guildhall has The Courier, Herself and Respect, none of which is new. On Friday (8/10) it has two screenings of a British documentary called After Shaun: A Suicide Awareness Film, directed by a man… [continues]

Freeview films 2/10/21 to 8/10/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamOctober 1, 2021 Categories: Freeview highlights, Uncategorized 2 Comments

FILM OF THE WEEK This week’s film of the week is The Truth (La vérité), 2019, French and English with subtitles. On Saturday (2/10) at 21:00 on BBC4. Here’s the preview by John Russell. World Cinema Saturday (2/10)         00:30   BBC2                 The Gangster, The Cop,… [continues]

The Truth

By John RussellOctober 1, 2021October 1, 2021 Categories: Films of the Week Leave a comment

The Truth (2019), directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. French and English with subtitles. Saturday (2/10), 21:00, BBC4. Also available on subscription or to rent or buy. Or, if you are a Cheltenham Film Society member, you can see it at the Bacon Theatre on 2 November. Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche appear together on screen for… [continues]

CIFF Lecture Invitation

By John MorrishSeptember 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Categories: Uncategorized Leave a comment

Leslie Sheldon, the indefatigable director of Cheltenham International Film Festival, is putting on his first annual festival lecture at the Parabola Arts Centre of Cheltenham Ladies College on Tuesday October 4, which is next week, at 5.30pm. He has kindly invited readers of this page or the newsletter to attend the talk, which is being… [continues]

The Tivoli

By John MorrishSeptember 25, 2021 Categories: Film news 6 Comments

O ye of little faith! I’ve bored everybody to death this year by telling them that the new Tivoli cinema at the back of the Regent Arcade in Cheltenham would a) never open and b) be crap. It opened this week. Yesterday, I wandered in to have a look. It’s rather nice. It is a… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 25 September

By John MorrishSeptember 25, 2021September 25, 2021 Categories: Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

Well, things seem to have looked up a bit this week. One new film at The Roses in Tewkesbury and a handful at Cineworld in Cheltenham. The Roses The Roses has, at various points in the week, The Last Bus, Stillwater, and Our Ladies, all of which we already know about. The new film is… [continues]

Freeview films 25 September to 1 October

By Film Cheltenham TeamSeptember 24, 2021September 25, 2021 Categories: Film previews 2 Comments

FILM OF THE WEEK This week’s film of the week is Under the Skin (2013), which is on Friday (1/10) at 01:30 on Film4. Here’s the preview, by Steve Sasanow. World Cinema Saturday (25/9)     21:00    BBC4            The King’s Choice (2016). Tremendous historical drama about the German invasion of Norway in… [continues]

Monos

By John RussellSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Categories: Films of the Week Leave a comment

Monos (2019). Directed by Alejandro Landes. Thursday (30/9), 23:25, Film4. Rent from Rakuten (cheapest), Amazon, Google, YouTube, BFI Player and Curzon. Buy from Amazon, Google, Sky Store, YouTube and Rakuten. With echoes of Lord of the Flies (1963) and Apocalypse Now (1979), Monos follows a group of child soldiers, the Monos, in the Colombian mountains… [continues]

Under The Skin

By Steve SasanowSeptember 24, 2021 Categories: Films of the Week Leave a comment

Under The Skin (2013). Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Friday (1/10), 01:30, Film4. Stream from BFI or BFI Player on Amazon. Rent or buy from Apple. Anyone with a fantasy about alien abduction should definitely see Under The Skin – or, then again, maybe not. That is only if you would like to be seduced by… [continues]

Freeview films 18 to 24 September

By John MorrishSeptember 18, 2021 Categories: Freeview highlights Leave a comment

FILM OF THE WEEK Inside Man (2006), directed by Spike Lee. Paramount, Monday (20/9) at 22:55. Previewed by John Russell This is unusual territory for Spike Lee but definitely worth a look. Denzel Washington and Clive Owen are pitted against each other as hostage negotiator and taker, in a bank heist with unusual features. One is… [continues]

Music and Movements

By John MorrishSeptember 18, 2021 Categories: Odds and ends Leave a comment

The composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was profoundly catholic, in the true sense of the word: he was a universalist, broad in his spiritual and musical understanding, sympathies and interests. But he was also deeply connected with the rituals and personalities of 19th and 20th century Anglo-Catholicism, a strain in English religion that has not always… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 18/9/2021

By John MorrishSeptember 18, 2021September 18, 2021 Categories: Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

Another dreary week for film in and around Cheltenham. Has everybody given up the ghost, I ask? Or have the muses of cinema deserted us? Last time I looked, they were on the outside wall of The Brewery, covered in vandal-proof perspex, having escaped the destruction of their home, The Odeon. I hope they are… [continues]

Jean Paul-Belmondo (6.4.1933 to 6.9.2021)

By Pamela WeaverSeptember 10, 2021 Categories: Obituaries Leave a comment

Le Magnifique This week European cinema lost one of its greatest stars of the 20thcentury: Jean-Paul Belmondo. Belmondo did it all: after a spell as an amateur boxer he trained as an actor and performed in theatre – a medium to which he returned briefly some 30 years into his film career. In 1959, Jean-Luc… [continues]

Freeview films 11 to 17 September

By Film Cheltenham TeamSeptember 10, 2021 Categories: Freeview highlights Leave a comment

FILM OF THE WEEK By Steve Sasanow The Graduate (1967) It would be quite difficult to over-estimate the social, cultural, cinematic and musical influence of this film. Its take on the American dream, its sexual audacity, its time-frame in American history, its use of contemporary music, all make it one of the most significant films of… [continues]

Summer Survivors interview

By John MorrishSeptember 10, 2021September 10, 2021 Categories: Film news, Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week I made my debut as a Zoom interviewer, talking to Marija Kavtaradze, brilliant young director of the Lithuanian film Summer Survivors, which is still available on YourScreen. Don’t take too much notice of their blurb. It makes it sound formulaic and depressing. It is neither. Here’s my write-up about it. Please excuse the… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 11/9/2021

By John MorrishSeptember 9, 2021 Categories: Films around Cheltenham Leave a comment

Another week in what could be the death-throes of the most significant and life-affirming cultural invention since the novel, namely the shared experience of watching the world’s stories in the presence of other human beings. Sadly, the people whose job it is to foster the future of the art, while preserving its vital heritage, seem… [continues]

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