Why are British Films so bad?
In this episode, Ralph and Owen journey into the spectral wastes of British film, asking: what went wrong, and what is to be done? Through k...
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Maestro & Suzhou River - two movies we liked!
This week, we’re slipping into the proverbial cinematic pool with a brief pitstop in Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein-biopic Maestro and a longer...
Film is so back! The Best of 2023
In a year when so much felt so over, film seems so beautifully back. Casting their eyes over twelve months, four festivals, and countless ho...
Eustache - it's the way he tells 'em!
Jean Eustache is hard to pin down. A French auteur who combined the brevity of Bresson with the romantic rambling of Rohmer. Eustache often...
BFI London film Festival Report #3
LFF may be over, but the takes are not. For their final derive through the halls of contemporary arthouse film, Ralph, Owen, and George take...
BFI London film Festival Report #2
Battered and broken, their eyes barely staying open, Ralph and Owen are joined by Berlin correspondent George MacBeth for a second heaving h...
BFI London film Festival Report #1
Un-reel city, under the brown fog of winter (well, autumn) dawn – a crowd flowed over Picadilly Circus, so many, I had not thought death had...
Why you're watching the wrong Christian Petzold films
Plumbing the murky and anodyne depths of German modernity, Christian Petzold – leading light of the Berlin School; protege of artist-filmmak...
Edward Yang: Family, brutality and modernity
Owen and Ralph discuss Edward Yang - the golden boy of the Taiwanese New Wave. Yang rose to fame with elliptical films like Taipei Story and...
We went to BFI Film On Film Festival!
Last weekend we dreamed in celluloid, in three-strip technicolor and, crucially, on NITRATE. The BFI's new, hopefully regular, festival dedi...
The case FOR Jeanne Dielman being the greatest film of all time
The greatest film ever made? Laurels like these come with their own anxiety of influence. Taking pole position in 2022’s decade-awaited Sigh...
Jerzy Skolimowski's underrated 60s films
This week Owen and Ralph discuss the early works of a living legend, the Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski. His recent poly-form donkey parabl...
A Brief History of DV filmmaking w/ Daniel Neofetou
This week the boys caught the millennium bug, immersing themselves in films made at the turn of a new technological era. In the late ninetie...
One Fine Morning - Mia's latest, and possibly greatest
Mia Hansen-Love’s latest is a dementia drama with a twist of romance. Always attuned to the intimate she blends naturalistic dialogue with S...
Kinoteka mini-report
This week, the boys went on ‘sabbatical’ to Hammersmith; peering under the hood of contemporary Polish film as part of Kinoteka Film Festiva...
Germaine Dulac - avant-garde heroine ahead of her time
This week, we’re taking a closer look at the impressionistic and (later) avant garde filmmaking of Germaine Dulac – particularly that which...
Berlinale roundup part 3 of 3
The boys are at the bottom of the Berlinale barrel, and their wallets, and despite a strict diet of doner kebabs they're still struggling to...
Berlinale dispatch 2: Back on our Berl-sh*t again
Festival-fog is taking its toll on the boys, so they sympathise with the angst of many of Berlinale's fraught faces: Willem Defoe’s trapped...
BERLINALE BUMPER REPORT: Manodrome/Reality/Blackbery/Shadowless Tower/Emily Atef etc
As dark clouds empty themselves over Berlin the boys hit a proverbial buffet of international Arthouse cinema - filling their plates with al...
Orson Welles: Larger-than-life
Orson Welles has secured his place in the filmmaking firmament. But Citizen Kane (1941) – with all its magnate malarky – can roundly oversha...