16 June 2013, 9pm
If you loved Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Richard Linklater’s romantic dramas starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, you’ll be happy to know that you can see a preview of the last and final film in the series, Before Midnight,… Continue reading
1 - 30 June. Screening times at around 4pm, 6pm and 8pm on most days - check website for all details.
If you’ve never seen Gilda, get thee down to BFI towards the end of June, because it’s being screened there on 21st and 22nd June as part of the Rita Hayworth season. Has there ever been a star quite like… Continue reading
14 - 23 June 2013
The annual Meltdown festival at the Southbank, put together each year by a guest artist (David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Antony, Patti Smith have all done it), is always a bit wacky and sometimes just a little too esoteric for us.… Continue reading
Runs all year, America is 23 - 24 Mar 2013
We’re huge fans of Alex Ross, the music critic of The New Yorker, so we think it’s a genius idea of the Southbank to hold a year long festival inspired by his book The Rest is Noise, which looks at… Continue reading
8 - 11 Aug 2013
Wow – we think this festival really does have everything. There’s music by Noah and the Whale, Rodriguez (of documentary Searching for Sugarman fame) and Tom Odell (who recently sang at the a/w 2013 Burberry fashion show). There are long… Continue reading
Who’s your hero? Having just watched the documentary Never Sorry about the Chinese artist Ai WeiWei, he’s definitely got our vote. It’s a fascinating insight into this defiant, media-savvy, humorous and very human artist who increasingly comes into conflict with… Continue reading
You know that feeling when it seems like everybody is raving about a film that you haven’t yet seen? Well, that’s what happened to us with Searching for Sugarman, so we were very glad that we finally got the chance to catch… Continue reading
If your idea of a good time during these rainy, winter nights is to curl up at home with a brilliant film or fascinating documentary, then you need to know about the Curzon on demand service. Described as a ‘curated… Continue reading
Released on 19 October
Our hippest New York friends have been raving about this film, and thank heavens, because otherwise – with its funny title, eccentric subject matter and lack of coherent story line – it might have passed us by. But we discovered… Continue reading
Holidays are our favourite time to catch up on all those great films that we missed over the past year. Here’s our list of the movies we’re taking away with us:
Martha Marcy May Marlene – a great film written… Continue reading
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