REVIEW: The Misfits
Reading Time: 3 minutes"A great performance piece, especially from Monroe"
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REVIEW: The Chronology of Water
Reading Time: 2 minutesA beautiful, hypnotic, and intense exploration of trauma and identity Kristen Stewart’s feature film directorial debut is an adaptation of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s autobiography, showing her escape from her abusive family home through competitive swimming, college…
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: Rocky Horror
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Something in between nostalgia and initiation, the 50th anniversary screening felt less like revisiting a classic than being enthusiastically recruited into its ever-growing cult"
FEATURE: Metropolis
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mind-melting modernist masterpiece as fresh as ever- the very best of Weimar era German cinema
REVIEW: Kinaesthesia + Q&A with Gerald Fox
Reading Time: 2 minutesA richly intelligent excavation of early cinema’s dream logic that fascinates throughout, even as its length and restraint hold it back from full sensory immersion At BFI Southbank, Kinaesthesia arrives as both film and manifesto. Directed by…
FEATURE: Million Dollar Baby
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of the BFI’s ‘The Cinematic Life of Boxing’ season, a screening of Million Dollar Baby (2004) was followed by a Q&A with broadcaster and former athlete Jeanette Kwakye
FEATURE: The Boxer and Q&A with Barry McGuigan
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year the BFI is hosting a season celebrating The Cinematic Life of Boxing, showcasing a diverse range of films that represent the sport on the big screen. As part of the season, BFI Southbank screened Jim Sheridan’s 1997 film, The Boxer, loosely inspired by the life of prolific boxer Barry McGuigan.
REVIEW: HOUSE23 Presents Short Shorts: Comedy
Reading Time: 2 minutesA fun collection of comedy shorts
FEATURE: Emma at Barbican Cinemas
Reading Time: 2 minutesIntroduced by composer Rachel Portman in an onstage conversation, it plays like a case study in how score can become structure, not just accompaniment, but the very thing that gives a film its tone and emotional coherence.