REVIEW: These Violent Delights
Reading Time: 3 minutesThese Violent Delights will be released in UK cinemas from 21st October.
Category Film
FEATURE: Jurassic Park at BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe ultimate dinosaur film in all its glory on UK’s largest screen
FEATURE: Dinosaurs of Antarctica (3D) at BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 2 minutesStunning CGI visuals present a lush, exciting prehistoric otherworld against the backdrop of a contemporary scientific expedition
REVIEW: Writing for Screen
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was little information provided in the listing for this event, but based on previous composition for screen events attended and played for at the Royal Academy of Music, a collection of short films, perhaps animations, devised from collaborations between academy composers and budding filmmakers had been anticipated.
FEATURE: Close Encounters of the Third Kind at BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter the global success of 1975’s JAWS, Steven Spielberg was the most celebrated man in Hollywood and could have made anything he wanted. It turns out he had been working on a pet project for some time, which would turn into the 1977 smash hit Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
FEATURE: Beautiful Thing @ Woolwich Works
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart of Pride Month at Woolwich Works, Beanfest celebrated the 30th anniversary of Beautiful Thing.
FEATURE: A Shark Double Bill at BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the launch of BFI’s Stephen Spielberg season and his new film Disclosure Day, Jaws was screened at the IMAX, preceded by the new documentary Shark Kingdom (in 3D!).
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Becki Douglass and Esme Michaela
Reading Time: 4 minutesBlurred Lines is a feminist, queer-led short film, starring Emmerdale’s Matthew Wolfenden, that explores the impact of county lines through a feminist horror lens.
REVIEW: Cotton Queen + Intro
Reading Time: 2 minutesCotton Queen is a coming-of-age story, but it is also about inheritance, women’s power and the long afterlife of colonialism. At the BFI preview screening of Cotton Queen, film journalist Leila Latif introduced the film by situating…
REVIEW: Rose of Nevada
Reading Time: 3 minutesJenkin delivers a tour-de-force time-slip fantasy, rugged and unkempt as the seas on which it’s set, but with a twinkling heart which floats well above the waterline. Seven years after his seminal BAFTA winning debut Bait, Mark Jenkin returns…