Tag: UK

November 28, 2024 / Drama

A young girl in a bombed-out part of London wants to make something beautiful, so she plants a garden in a ruined church with help from her friend. None of the adults in her life understand why she wants to do this.

November 28, 2024 / Documentary

Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts. Between concerts, pop duo Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart survey Japan’s cultural soundscape with the help of Conny Plank: A world of sounds both brutally technological and highly refined by tradition.

November 25, 2024 / Documentary

When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe’s chief. The young boy and the chief’s son Nikitu grow up to become close friends and skilled hunters. When a drought threatens the tribe’s existence, Boru and Nikitu traverse the countryside looking for a water source, only to get caught in the open when a lightning storm sets the tribe’s homeland on fire.

November 25, 2024 / Documentary
November 25, 2024 / Documentary

An excellent documentary made shortly after the release of Cronenberg’s The Fly which allows the director and his supporters and detractors full rein to discuss the many complex issues surrounding his films. Contains interviews with Stephen King, Martin Scorsese, Robin Wood and Cronenberg himself.

November 24, 2024 / Experimental

Rarely has a film exploded onto cinema screens with such a joyful splash of colour and rhythm as A Colour Box. Made as a commercial for the General Post Office, New Zealand born Len Lye painted directly onto the film strip, synchronising his dynamic shapes and squiggles with an upbeat rumba track. The film captured the heart of audiences on its release in 1935 and continues to do so today.

October 6, 2024 / Drama

The story of the real-life Scottish criminal who spent a decade in and out of British prisons is the subject of this film directed by John MacKenzie (Long Good Friday) and produced by Beatle George Harrison’s company, Hand Made Films. The life of the violent criminal is captivating, for, following his turbulent years in and out of captivity, his later years saw him marrying a psychiatrist and supervising efforts at rehabilitating convicts.

September 26, 2024 / Television

The 1900 House is a historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The show is about a modern family that tries to the live in the way of the late Victorians in 1900 for three months in a modified house. It was shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and on PBS in the United States.