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Recent Posts on The Case for Global Film- Cure (Japan 1997) December 2, 2020MUBI recently offered a Kurosawa Kiyoshi mini-season and I managed to catch Cure, Kurosawa’s international breakthrough film, just before it fell off the 30 day rolling programme. It is available on DVD/Blu-ray in the UK from Eureka and possibly on other streaming services. Kurosawa is a major filmmaker who hasn’t been seen much in UK […]Roy Stafford
- John Ford #5: The Whole Town’s Talking (US 1935) December 1, 2020Powerhouse/Indicator’s 4 film box-set of ‘Ford at Columbia’ includes this fascinating and rather good title alongside three more from the 1950s, The Long Gray Line (1955), The Last Hurrah (1956) and Gideon’s Day (1957). This post is based on a viewing of a rented Blu-ray from the box-set. Because I haven’t got the whole box-set […]Roy Stafford
- Ostende (Argentina 2011) November 30, 2020Ostende is currently part of MUBI’s Library offer, having been part of a New Argentinian cinema strand back in 2017. The development of several film schools in Argentina has meant the production of a large number of films that have been apparent on the festival circuit during the last ten years. I’ve usually found one […]Roy Stafford
- Yellow Canary (UK 1943) November 22, 2020The BBC has deposited another tranche of its RKO titles on iPlayer in the UK to enable us to entertain ourselves under lockdown. It’s a mixed bag but I haven’t seen any of them before and I’m always grateful for films without ads. I plumped for Yellow Canary which promised an interesting cast in a […]Roy Stafford
- The Leeds Palestinian Film Festival 2020 November 17, 2020This year’s programme is, as with so many events, an online or virtual festival. It runs from November 14th until November 28th. The programme is structured through four themes: Annexation, Occupation Defiance As Seen by Annemarie Jacir As Seen by Children As Seen Through Creative Eyes All told there are fourteen features that include both […]keith1942
- Cure (Japan 1997) December 2, 2020
