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Monster
An incident involving a troubled schoolboy has ramifications for the wider community. Shape-shifting mystery drama from distinguished Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters), featuring a score by the late great Ryuichi Sakamoto. Winner Cannes Best Screenplay Award.
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The Holdovers
The star (Paul Giamatti) and director (Alexander Payne) of Sideways reunite, in this funny and bittersweet comedy-drama about staff and pupils of a New England boarding school ‘held over’ to reluctantly spend the holidays together.
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All of Us Strangers
“A raw and potent piece of storytelling that grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go.” Wendy Ide, Observer A moving meditation on love, loneliness and the nature of family starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell & Claire Foy. Winner of 7 British Independent Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay. “A…
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
“This is a gentle, sensual gem of a film.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian A drolly amusing Georgian comedy-drama that tackles the way life can take a sharp turn in middle-age. As the taciturn shopkeeper who rebels against her lot after a near-death experience, Eka Chavleishvili is both sympathetic and constantly surprising. “A most unusual feminist heroine,…
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Orlando
“This ravishing and witty spectacle invades the mind through eyes that are dazzled without ever being anesthetised.” Vincent Canby, New York Times Sally Potter’s 1992 film, already regarded as a classic of British cinema, stars Tilda Swinton in a clever, visually-arresting adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel. Restored in 4K and re-released in 2022 to…
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Summer with Monika
“One of Bergman’s very best films and perhaps his most influential.” Richard Brody, New Yorker A young couple flee Stockholm in a boat to spend an idyllic summer on an island. A key work by writer and director Ingmar Bergman, the film was initially notorious for a nude scene that helped establish Sweden’s reputation as…
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If Only I Could Hibernate
“The film shows the two conflicting forces: the escape impetus and the loyalty impetus.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian A Mongolian-set drama about a teenager who must balance the demands of his dysfunctional family and the possibilities opened up by academic success. “[The film] brings an earthy, lived-in authenticity to a premise that, in other hands, could…
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Perfect Days
“Seeing life through Hirayama’s eyes you are reminded of how important it is to look around you and see the beauty in the everyday.” Dominic Hayes, Mancunion Hirayama, played by Koji Yakusho, a middle-aged toilet cleaner in Tokyo, enjoys a rich interior life through reading, photography and classic rock cassette tapes. Wim Wenders’ film artfully…
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The Damned Don’t Cry
“[A] haunting, peculiar and often expressly queer story of social isolation and outsider survival.” Guy Lodge, Variety A rootless mother and teenage son struggle to get by in an inhospitable society, drifting from one Moroccan town to another, bound by a shameful secret and forced by circumstance into selling themselves. “The story fills with careens…
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