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Trapped inside an impermeable windowless concrete room

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In the 33rd Raindance Film Festival, The Lonely Musketeer won the Best U.K. cinematography, Bruce Jackson, shot in monochrome in one claustrophobic main location, a low-budget film, is a taut, stripped-back mystery thriller. The film also won the Best Performance in a UK Feature, Edward Hogg, for his role in unique closed room Thriller, The Lonely Musketeer. There is only one actor on screen for the most part of Nicolai Schumann’smesmerising debut feature, The Lonely Musketeer. It is an entirelyfictitious story which I would term essentially as “Film Noir”. Themusical score accompanying the drama is original. It is a dark, unpleasant,though gripping … Continue reading Trapped inside an impermeable windowless concrete room

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Raindance festival London: The Palestine Comedy Club

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THE PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB – RAINDANCE 33 RD LONDON FILMFESTIVAL VUE CINEMA LOWER REGENT STREET 18-27 JUNE 2025 Charlotte Knowles is the Producer of this meaningful film and her sisterLibby edited it. Charlotte has worked in Hebron, Palestine and she hasmade seven films in all. One of the comedy club – Aliabdallah who is alsothe Director, has an account called regashots – he could not come toRaindance due to visa restrictions. There is much coverage of theproblems encountered by the club in travelling around and checkpointswhich they must pass through to continue their shows. Referred to as“unbelievable logistical feats” the … Continue reading Raindance festival London: The Palestine Comedy Club

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Raindance Festival 2025: The Last Grail Hunter

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Dystopian and dark, the story of this saga cemented to Lee in a dream. He talked to John Altman ( remember Eastenders fame Nick) and the film took a mere four days to film on an iPhone and a drone using the film app Black Magic. Lee is in a band called The Pocket Gods and atmospheric angry music accompanies the story of this “esoteric road trip which is a bit fucked up” adding gravitas from the band. Guerrilla-style filming and work was intrinsic. The book Holy Blood And Holy Grail which apparently inspired some of the writings in The … Continue reading Raindance Festival 2025: The Last Grail Hunter

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Emilia Pérez takes 13 Oscar Nominations

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Only one of the 10 films nominated for best picture was directed by a woman- Coralie Fargeat’s controversial horror  The Substance, and Fargeat was also the only female screenwriter with solo credit across the 10 scripts in contention. Brady Corbet’s three-and-half hour epic, The Brutalist, about a Hungarian Holocaust survivor of second world war played by Adrien Brody coming to post war America to be an architect, took 10 nominations, as did Wicked, the hit adaptation of the Broadway show. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, came away with eight nominations, as did Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave, starring … Continue reading Emilia Pérez takes 13 Oscar Nominations

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Revelatory biography of a surprising and complex man

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Dive into the pages and Celebrate one of the REAL stars of the USA! There are 24 chapters in four parts in this very readable book.  The book contains many black and white illustrations and photographs showing Redford as a star with other actors, pictures of his family, his youth  and some of his personally executed artworks. Redford originally studied Art at higher education level and then travelled Europe where he lived on a shoestring taking in the galleries and the beauty of the landscape and architecture.  When he returned to the USA he worked as a set designer and decorator  for films.  While he … Continue reading Revelatory biography of a surprising and complex man

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Pylon

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A young boy and his sister wander through a field on a hazy summer’s day wherethey are confronted by a gang of older boys who force the child up an electricitypylon — with earth-shattering ramifications. Barnaby Blackburn’s devastating short British drama PYLON is a poignant exploration of fractious family relationships, the horrors siblings subject each other to, and the indelible marks they leave. The film was made with Ken Loach’s production company Sixteen Films and has qualified for the 2025 BAFTAs.Barnaby Blackburn is an award winning writer/director. At the age of 26 he won aBAFTA for writing promos for the BBC’s Winter … Continue reading Pylon

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RAINDANCE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2024. “THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES. L’HOMME DE

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MILLE VISAGES”. 90 MINS. PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL – FRANCE/POLAND. ALL NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. A documentary about a real life imposter who has charmed a string of ladies all round the globe. Made by filmmaker Sonia Kronlund about a real man hiding behind many identities, the film is based and was instigated by a personal friend’s experiences and took several years to put together. The maker of this film said at Q and A that it was a difficult one to make – “one of those stories which feels like you don’t really know why you’re working on it” – it … Continue reading RAINDANCE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2024. “THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES. L’HOMME DE

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Raindance Festival 2024: “CICAVERZUM” OR “CAT CALL”

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“CICAVERZUM” OR “CAT CALL” BY ROZALIA SZELECZKIA film which defies you not to laugh, cry, and sit up and take notice!Very especially suited to cat lovers, “Cat Call” has been described and interpreted both as a Rom-Com and as “author driven drama”. It’s a moving, partly surrealistic and sensitively humorous saga which is presented in a way which makes it realistic and credulous though deep down most viewersknow that much of it is a playful fiction done in a style which keeps the audience enchanted and fixated.“Cat Call” or “Cicaverzum” (Hungarian for Alternative Universe) is the debut feature of Rozalia … Continue reading Raindance Festival 2024: “CICAVERZUM” OR “CAT CALL”

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Raindance Film Festival: The Quiet Maid

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“THE QUIET MAID” – RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL LONDON 2024 (92 mins) in association with Calladita films and others.INTELLIGENTLY EXAMINING CLASS TENSIONS AND UNFAIRNESS “RESCUED” BY SATIREThis film brings to mind all kinds of conflicating episodes, feelings and behaviours which may echo with many a viewer. Poor Ana (Paula Grimaldo) is a Columbian housekeeper in the Costa Brava trying to fund a close relative’s aspirations to become a doctor while she is underpaid and witnessing spoilt bourgeois people who though speaking the same language, have nothing else in common with her at all.Directed, written and produced by up and coming Miguel … Continue reading Raindance Film Festival: The Quiet Maid

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Donald Sutherland  dead at 88

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Veteran Canadian actor Donald Sutherland known for roles in M*A*S*H, Klute, The Hunger Games, The Dirty Dozen, Kelly’s Heroes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Animal House, and Don’t Look Now, has died aged 88 after long illness.  He had 200 film credits including recent roles in Trust, The Undoing, Sutherland’s 1970s resume included a remake of the horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and a memorable turn as a pot-smoking professor in the National Lampoon comedy Animal House. His son, the actor Kiefer Sutherland, said: “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed … Continue reading Donald Sutherland  dead at 88