Film reviews, TV reviews and tales of film making and festivals
Saturday was Russian Culture Day at the Flaneur. In the evening would be a Yuri Bashmet concert, but before that was a matinee of Aleksey Balbanov’s 1997 film The Brother. This kicked off a retrospective […]
Spoiler Alert: Don’t read the last paragraph if you don’t want to discover whether Martin beat the world record he was aiming for Anyone who saw the 2011 documentary TT3D: Closer to the Edge would have spotted that one participant was definitely a […]
Film festivals are of course the place to see the newest releases, but they also give the opportunity to see old films that are rarely shown on the big screen. The London Comedy Film Festival […]
Now this is fun! Silent movies as they were supposed to be seen – on the big screen and with a live piano accompaniment. Sure DVDs of the early masters of comedy are enjoyable, but watching […]