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The Small World of Sammy Lee: Anthony Newley and a long-gone Soho
The vibrant, down and dirty Soho of the 1960s lives on in British classic The Small World of Sammy Lee, featuring Bowie-inspiring actor and singer Anthony Newley as a strip-club compère.
Monday 10 October 2016 -
Andrzej Wajda obituary: Poland’s man of memory
Michael Brooke remembers the towering Polish director of Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, The Promised Land, Man of Iron, Danton and Katyń – ”one of the key custodians of his country’s conscience”, who has died at the age of 90.
Monday 10 October 2016 -
London Film Festival 2016 Cult round-up: woods, morgues and madness
Anton Bitel picks five of the best – and freakiest – in this year’s LFF Cult strand.
Friday 7 October 2016 -
Louis Theroux: ‘I don’t want to just run up to Scientology and punch it on the nose’
In Louis Theroux’s first movie, he casts actors to play the parts of Tom Cruise and Scientology head David Miscavige, dramatises some of the church’s reputed practises, and visits Scientology HQ. Did he realise what he was getting into?
Friday 7 October 2016 -
Michael Peña and John Michael McDonagh on corrupt cop comedy War on Everyone
John Michael McDonagh’s follow-up to Calvary is a change of pace: an anarchic black comedy buddy movie set in the heat of New Mexico. McDonagh and his star Michael Peña joined us to discuss Trump, Hollywood and Nicolas Cage’s hair.
Friday 7 October 2016 -
Hell Drivers: Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan star in a British action classic
A brilliant cast of British actors, including a young Sean Connery, star in the newly restored Hell Drivers, a tough and thrilling trucking movie shot on the B roads of Buckinghamshire.
Thursday 6 October 2016 -
London Film Festival 2016: my five picks (and five hopes) – Kieron Corless
What to watch at this year’s LFF? Kieron Corless salutes Eugène Green’s modern Nativity with a monstrous Mathieu Amalric, and four triumphantly imaginative explorations of history from Chile, Austria, Thailand and the US.
Thursday 6 October 2016 -
10 great films set in New Mexico
From High Noon to Breaking Bad, the desert landscapes and small-towns of New Mexico have hidden all kinds of corruption on screen. In War on Everyone, even the cops are crooked as hell…
Thursday 6 October 2016 -
The Illinois Parables: Deborah Stratman on her histories of the land
The artist and filmmaker talks the politics of place, allegories of exile and questions of film form with Erika Balsom.
Wednesday 5 October 2016 -
Not safe for work: Jim Hosking and Toby Harvard on The Greasy Strangler
Bored of arthouse cinema, writer-director team Jim Hosking and Toby Harvard explain why they’ve pushed the boat way out in their surreal, yucky, outlandish and highly quotable new film The Greasy Strangler.
Wednesday 5 October 2016
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