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2025: A Year in Film

12 Monday Jan 2026

Posted by marina72 in Film, Non-Fiction, Television

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2025, A Year in Films and TV, Barbara Loden, BFI, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Brian Murphy, Chase Infiniti, Cheers, Claudia Cardinale, Close Your Eyes, Corsica, David Lynch, Diane Ladd, Eka Chavleishvili, Elena Gorfinkel, Elene Naveriani, Film Noir, From Hilde With Love, Gene Hackman, George and Mildred, George Wendt, Georgia, Germany, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Hard Truths, Hilde Coppi, India, Iran, It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi, Joana Santos, Josh O'Connor, Julien Colonna, Kathy Burke, Kelly Reichardt, Laura Carreira, Liv Lisa Fries, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Scorsese, Mayukh Sen, Merle Oberon, Mike Leigh, Nina Mae McKinney, Norman Eshley, On Falling, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Picturehouse, Portugal, Prunella Scales, Rebekah Del Rio, Robert Redford, Sandhya Suri, Santosh, Saveriu Santucci, Scotland, Shahana Goswami, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Steven Cohan, Terence Stamp, The Kingdom, The Mastermind, The New Hollywood, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Erice, Wanda

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, newcomer Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall – this screwball odyssey affirms director Paul Thomas Anderson as America’s millennial auteur. Continue reading →

2024: A Year in Film

13 Monday Jan 2025

Posted by marina72 in Documentaries, Film, Non-Fiction

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2024, A Year in Films and TV, About Dry Grasses, Agnieszka Holland, Alexander Payne, American Fiction, Ann Sheridan, Argentina, Black Dog, Blitz, Carole Lombard, Chinatown, Desperately Seeking Susan, Evil Does Not Exist, Fancy Dance, Four Daughters, Gena Rowlands, Glynis Johns, Green Border, Jeffrey Wright, Kate Winslet, Lee Miller, Lily Gladstone, London, Maggie Smith, Only the River Flows, Percival Everett, Rodrigo Moreno, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Saoirse Ronan, Steve McQueen, The Delinquents, The Holdovers, The Peasants, The Settlers, The Universal Theory, Turkey, World War II

In a year when I was more often drawn to world cinema, there was at least one notable exception. Steve McQueen’s Blitz packs more action in two hours than some Hollywood blockbusters, and despite a more traditional style than expected from the auteur of Small Axe and Occupied City, it’s authentically a Londoner’s movie. Following a reluctant evacuee (Elliot Heffernan) and his conflicted mother (Saoirse Ronan), Blitz is hard-hitting and poignant, with a child’s view on war reminiscent of films like Hope and Glory, Au Revoir Les Enfants, and Empire of the Sun. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Film

02 Tuesday Jan 2024

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Documentaries, Film, Non-Fiction, Updates

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A Year in Films and TV, Aftersun, Aki Kaurismäki, Alcarràs, Babak Jalali, Broker, Buck and the Preacher, Carla Simón, Catalonia, Charlotte Wells, China, David Leland, Davy Chou, Elisa Jordan, Fallen Leaves, Finland, Fremont, Fyzal Boulifa, Gina Gammell, Hirokazu Koreeda, Humphrey Bogart, Iran, Jim Jarmusch, Killers of the Flower Moon, Korea, Lauren Bacall, Léonor Seraille, Li Ruijun, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Scorsese, Morocco, Mother and Son, Paul Sng, Return to Dust, Return to Seoul, Richard Barrios, Riley Keough, Shirley Anne Field, Sidney Poitier, Spain, The Damned Don't Cry, The Last Stage, The Old Oak, Tish Murtha, Wanda Jakubowska, War Pony, William J. Mann, Wish You Were Here

Adapted from David Grann’s history of the Osage murders, Killers of the Flower Moon was – for me at least – the cinematic event of 2023. With authoritative performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and a luminous Lily Gladstone, plus the painterly cinematography of Jack Fisk and a subtly insistent final score from the late Robbie Robertson, Killers channels the spirit of the first revisionist Westerns. While perhaps lacking the flash of this year’s Oscar rivals (Oppenheimer, Poor Things), this is a masterclass in neo-classical filmmaking from Martin Scorsese – and a tough-minded reckoning with America’s brutal origins. Continue reading →

2022: A Year in Film and TV

31 Saturday Dec 2022

Posted by marina72 in Film, Television

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A Year in Films and TV, Agatha Christie, Annie Ernaux, Audrey Diwan, Benicio del Toro, Better Call Saul, Emily, Emily Bronte, Emma Mackey, Frances O'Connor, Happening, Hit the Road, Julia Garner, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Oscar Isaac, Ozark, Panah Panahi, Paul Schrader, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Bowles, Rhea Seehorn, Rooney Mara, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, See How They Run, The Card Counter, Tom George

My favourite film of 2022 was one of the first I saw. Licorice Pizza is so light and joyful, with newcomers Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman perfectly cast as the goofy young lovers in the San Fernando Valley of 1973. Continue reading →

2021: A Year in Film and TV

23 Thursday Dec 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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A Year in Films and TV, Alexandre Rockwell, Barry Jenkins, Billie Holiday, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Chase Dillon, Chloe Zhao, Colson Whitehead, David Simon, Denmark, Diana Dors, Docudrama, HBO, I Never Cry, Jane Russell, Jeanette Nordahl, Joel Edgerton, John Garfield, Lana Rockwell, Marilyn Monroe, Melina León, Nella Larsen, Passing, Perry Mason, Peru, Piotr Domalewski, Rebecca Hall, Robert Machoian, Ross Brothers, Ruth Negga, Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Song Without A Name, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Sweet Thing, The Killing of Two Lovers, The Plot Against America, The Roads Not Taken, The Underground Railroad, Thuso Mbedu, Wildland, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Zofia Stafiej

After Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins triumphs again with his serial adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s historical fantasy, The Underground Railroad. As fugitive Cora, actress Thuso Mbedu is a guiding light, with able support from Joel Edgerton and Chase Dillon as her relentless pursuers. This small-screen masterwork is the cinematic event of the year. Continue reading →

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