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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

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Muslim International Film Festival, London

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The Muslim International Film Festival Londonhttp://www.TheMiff.Net@muslimfilmfest MIFF 30 May to 2 June Opened by Sajid Varda Story Consultant/Founder of Festival. BFI Aficionado.All films have been to at least one major film festival before coming to this oneand some have received awards. With films set throughout the world includingUK, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Jordan and Sudan, the festival runs as per thedates itemised above.MIFF is supported by UK Muslim Film (UKMF). Sajid Varda is keen to seeincreasing representation of Muslim actors and themes worldwide. He alsowishes to bring harmony within the industry.He feels 9/11 changed everything making Muslims identified with somethingevil. Supported … Continue reading Muslim International Film Festival, London

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Survival of shark hit Yacht for 118 days

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An eccentric English love story transforming into one of the most dramatic adventures ever recorded. Maurice a cautious and awkward and Marilyn charismatic and hopeful, an unlikely workable romance. Bored in 1970s suburban life, Marilyn has an idea, sell the house, build a boat, leave England and its oil crisis, industrial strikes and inflation – forever and turning dreams into reality, but finally they set sail for New Zealand. But halfway there their beloved yacht is struck by a sperm whale rising from the depths of the Pacific hundreds of miles from the Galapagos and cracks open the hull of … Continue reading Survival of shark hit Yacht for 118 days

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Oppenheimer’s 13 Oscar nominations

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Oppenheimer’s examination of the dawn of the Atomic Age, earned 13 nominations in the 86th Academy Awards on Tuesday. Poor Things a feminist fantasy set in a steampunk world of mutants and male chauvinist pigs earned 11 nominations, closely followed by Killers of the Flower Moon, a historical crime drama with 10 nominations. Barbie last year’s biggest box office hit earned eight nominations. Best Actor will be between Paul Giamatti, playing a boaring school teacher in “the Holdovers”, Cilliam Murph, who portrays J Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project in Oppenheimer.  Best Actress will be between Lily Gladstone … Continue reading Oppenheimer’s 13 Oscar nominations

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Glynis Johns, Mary Poppins actress dies aged 100

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British actress  and Theatre performer Glynis Johns, who acted as suffragette mother Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins, has died aged 100.  Johns starred opposite Dame Julie Andrews in the classic Disney musical Mary Poppins, which went on to win five Oscars. Glynis won a Tony Award in1973 for playing Desiree Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical A Little Night Music in which she sang Send in The Clowns. Glynis born I=on 5 October 1923 in South Africa, while her Welsh actor parent were performing there. Her first big screen role  came in 1948, as the mermaid Miranda, with her performance … Continue reading Glynis Johns, Mary Poppins actress dies aged 100

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Chaplin’s fall from grace

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The remarkable, story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Film critic, Scott Ryman’s biography of Charlie Chaplin is a perceptive, insightful portrait of  Chaplin and of an America consumed by political turmoil, starts in 1952, as he was barred from re-entering America by opaque machinations bin the US state department. Once the most famous man in the world, Chaplin abroad the RMS Queen Elizabeth, bound for England now risked becoming “stateless, impoverished” in Ryman’s words “ Charlie Chaplin had … Continue reading Chaplin’s fall from grace