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]

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]

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]

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 4 June 2022

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World Cinema Saturday (4/6) 21:00 BBC4 Lullaby (2019). Sorry, I’ve drawn a blank. It could be Chicheka Lullaby, from Iran. Or it could be Perfect Nanny aka Lullaby, from France. Or it could be Lullaby (2014) from the USA, but that wouldn’t count as World Cinema, the… [continues]

Freeview films from 22 May 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamMay 22, 2022May 24, 2022 Freeview highlights, Uncategorized 2 Comments

Sadly, it took me so long to push this through this week that you’ll have to seek out some these films on catch-up. No reflection on my able helpers, who all did brilliantly and on time. World Cinema Saturday (21/5) 02:00 Film4 Why Don’t You Just Die (2018)… [continues]

Freeview films from 14 May 2022

By Film Cheltenham TeamMay 14, 2022May 24, 2022 Freeview highlights, Uncategorized 2 Comments

World Cinema Sunday (15/5) 01:00 BBC2 Piranhas (2019). Drama based on La Paranza dei Bambini (literally ’The Trawler of Children’), written by Roberto Saviano (Gomorrah) and directed by Claudio Giovannesi, about a group of teenage boys in Naples, beginning to make their way in the world of organised crime. Did well at the 69th Berlin… [continues]

Freeview films from 30 April 2022

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World Cinema Saturday (30/4) 21:00 BBC4 By the Grace of God (2018). Writer-director François Ozon crafts a meticulous and quietly forceful fact-based drama recounting the shocking career of Bernard Preynat, Catholic Priest and serial child abuser, and the courageous campaign by a group of his male victims 30 years on to… [continues]

Freeview films from 23 April 2022

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World Cinema Saturday (23/4) 01:35 Film4 The Guilty (2018). This Danish thriller, directed by debutant Gustav Möller, is basically a one-hander. Jakob Cedergren plays Asger, a Copenhagen police officer handling emergency calls while he awaits trial for shooting dead a 19-year-old man. He takes a call from a woman named Iben (Jessica Dinnage) who appears to… [continues]

Freeview films from 9 April 2022

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World Cinema Sunday (10/4) 22:30 BBC4 Yuli (2018) .This 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 actress, writer and director Iciar Bollain, and co-written, with Acosta himself, by Paul Laverty, long-time screenwriter for… [continues]

Freeview films from 19 March 2022

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World Cinema Saturday (19/3) 22:00 BBC4 Burning (2018). Mesmerising mystery-thriller from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong. A struggling young man meets a mysterious woman he used to know. She asks him to look after her cat, then introduces him to a richer rival with a dangerous preoccupation. A 148-minute dreamscape,… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 29/1/2022

By Pamela WeaverJanuary 29, 2022 Uncategorized 2 Comments

We haven’t had time to do cover other than The Roses and The Guildhall this week. The links for the commercial cinemas are there, so you can look for yourselves. Frankly, if these profit-making enterprises, with their marketing departments, web jockeys and industry access can’t be bothered to provide the public with accurate, up-to-date and… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 22/1/22

By Film Cheltenham TeamJanuary 22, 2022 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here are the films around Cheltenham, starting on Palindrome Day. We haven’t filled in the really obvious places yet, but the links are there for you to find out their programmes yourself. The Roses After a busy time at the Roses last week, there is now something of a lull. The three films that started… [continues]

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 18/12/21 to 24/12/21

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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 11/12/21

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The Cineworlds New from Friday: Clifford:The Big Red Dog (2021), children’s live/action, with John Cleese, whose most prominent appearances these days seem to be on Twitter; and Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest in the endless franchise. This time Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is exposed as the sticky-fingered superhero and Dr Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 4/12/21

By John MorrishDecember 4, 2021 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Cineworlds Some Harry Potter reruns. Some Matrix reruns. A new Resident Evil called Welcome to Raccoon City. A live event-cinema thing featuring the pomaded poltroon Andre Rieu, my late mum’s favourite. Another event=cinema thing featuring Gorillaz, probably aimed at a slightly different audience. Also, something about Monsta X, apparently a K-Pop band. And The… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 27/11/21

By John MorrishNovember 27, 2021November 27, 2021 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized 1 Comment

The Cineworlds A lot of very familiar stuff at the Cineworlds this week: The House of Gucci, Encanto, King Richard, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Eternals, etc, etc. There are a couple of ‘Unlimited’ exclusive screenings of Boxing Day, which is a post-Christmas mid-Atlantic romcom with a largely black cast, directed by Ami Ameen, whose trans-Atlantic acting and… [continues]

Fire Will Come (2019)

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In Fire Will Come (2019). Amador, a convicted arsonist returns to his remote village to look after his ageing mother, Benedicta, braving the suspicion of his former neighbours. Both leading roles, and most of the other parts, are played by non-professional actors. Amador (Amador Arias) was (and probably still is) a forester, and this is… [continues]

Freeview film 6/11/21 to 12/11/21

By Film Cheltenham TeamNovember 5, 2021 Freeview highlights, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sorry to say I haven’t got round to doing a Film of the Week this time, but I especially recommend His Girl Friday, Paths of Glory, Last Orders and Nebraska, if you haven’t seen those. World Cinema Saturday (6/11) 21:00 BBC4 Portrait of a… [continues]