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26th BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: North Sea Texas
Director Bavo Defurne’s feature debut is a queer coming-of-age tale that’s light as meringue and rendered with conspicuous, melt-on-the-screen prettiness, and it’s all the more charming for it.
26th BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Absent
Marco Berger’s Absent is a strange beast. Sixteen-year old student Martin harbours a forbidden desire for his adult gym teacher, Sebastian.
Film: The Kid With A Bike
‘A precocious, fair-haired young boy seeks a form of redemption after the loss of a father figure, in a European-helmed film’ . . . sounds a lot like the blurb for nauseating Stephen Frears schmaltz-fest Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Film: Michael
Michael is a film by Markus Schleinzer that goes on Fritzl levels of sordidness. Literally.
FILM: A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg sanitises himself in his latest offering, A Dangerous Method.
Preview: Filmic, A Festival of Film & Music
The Watershed and St George’s in Bristol explore the link between music and film in a two month season of events they’re calling Filmic.
Film: Coriolanus
You may have noticed that Coriolanus has the word ‘anus’ in it. Ralph Fiennes has not noticed this. The very last thing Ralph Fiennes wants you to think is that he has a sense of humour, and just to prove it he’s made the stultifying dour-a-thon that is Coriolanus.
New Release: Steve McQueen’s Shame
A look at Hunger director Steve McQueen’s second feature, Shame.
5 Best/Worst Films of 2011
A quick look back over 2011′s best and worst cinematic offerings
Film: The Artist
The Artists is a massively overhyped silent film by Michael Hazanavicius
