NEW IN CINEMAS THIS WEEK
Galveston (2018) – Ben Foster (very good in Leave No Trace) plays a hitman, returning to his hometown with revenge on his bucket list.
Mid 90s (2018) – a troubled thirteen year-old boy, growing up in LA. Written and directed by Jonah Hill.
The Happy Prince (2018) – directed by and starring Rupert Everett, as Oscar Wilde, during his final days. Also starring Colin Firth and Emily Watson.
Pet Sematary– re-tread of the Stephen King horror classic.
Shazam – fourteen year-old boy shouts “Shazam!” and becomes a superhero, just like that.
Wonder Park –the animated imaginings of a young girl in an amusement park.
P Storm -Hong Kong action.
Romeo Akbar Walter – Hindi action.
Yaara Ve – Punjabi comedy.
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| Fellini's 8 1/2 with music by Nino Rota |
Saturday 7pm Italian Film Music of the 1960s: Boccaccio 70; Mafioso; Eight and a Half; The Leopard; Seduced and Abandoned.
ON THE TELLY
Monday Noon 9Gem: Peter Sellers is a small-town Welsh librarian who has a fling with a socialite (Mai Zetterling), in Only Two Can Play (1962). Also stars the wonderful Virginia Maskell and Kenneth Griffith. Based on the Kingsley Amis novel, “That Uncertain Feeling”
Monday 10.25pm & 1.45pm Tuesday,Fox Classics: The Hour of the Gun (1967), stolid but vivid Western, set during the aftermath of the OK corral gunfight. James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Jason Robards as Doc Holliday. Directed by John Sturges.
Tuesday Noon 9Gem: A Kind of Loving (1962) - the feature-film debut by director John Schlesinger. Set in the English Midlands, and based on a novel by Stan Barstow, it stars Alan Bates as an engineering draughtsman, who falls for blonde typist, June Ritchie. He gets her “in trouble”… they have to marry, and live with her mother. British neo-realism vividly captured by Schlesinger, his cameraman, Denys Coop and an excellent cast.
Tuesday 10.45pm & 2.15pm Wednesday, Fox Classics: The Eye of the Needle (1981) – full throttle WW2 melodrama. To facilitate a German invasion of Britain, Nazi spy, Donald Sutherland (at his creepiest), exploits Kate Nelligan (excellent) and her crippled husband on a remote Scottish island. Miklos Rosza’s score boasts every shade of purple.
Friday Noon 9Gem: The Green Man (1956) – lively British farce about a professional assassin (Alistair Sim) on the trail of a pompous politician (Raymond Huntley). Delightful character turns by Terry-Thomas, Dora Bryan, and (as a cuckolded BBC announcer) Colin Gordon, who tells George Cole: “I’d thrash the life out of you if I didn’t have to read the 9 o’clock news.”
Saturday 11.30am 9Gem: I’m Alright Jack (1959) A naive university graduate (Ian Carmichael) takes a job in heavy industry, causes a strike, and reveals the shameful corruption rife amongst management and workers. With Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Attenborough, Liz Fraser, Dennis Price and John Le Mesurier.
Sunday 2.15pm 9Gem: Orders to Kill (1958) - Paul Massie plays a WW2 bomber pilot on a secret mission, an assassination, which later plagues his conscience. Well written (Paul Dehn) and directed (Anthony Asquith), but distressing. Also starring Irene Worth.
VALE
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| Agnes Varda circa 1960 and Cleo de 5 a 7 |
By the time Brussels-born writer-director Agnès Varda (of Greek-French parents) was in her late twenties, she had hardly spent any time inside a cinema, yet she directed her first feature film, La Pointe Courte (1956), which was later hailed as the first film of the French New Wave (it was edited by Alain Resnais). Her next feature, Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961), an absorbing character study of a pop singer, has the attention to detail that elevates all Varda’s films. Le Bonheur (1965), an ironic analysis of happiness has a prettiness probably inspired by her husband, director Jacques Demy (about whom she made three documentaries). Varda’s ouput was sporadic, but in her late fifties, she had a great success with her docu-drama, Vagabond (1985), about a homeless woman. The Gleaners & I (2000) was a fascinating documentary about gleaners in the countryside and the city. More recently Varda made The Beaches of Agnès (2008), an autobiographical documentary. She was 90 years old when she died on March the 29th.
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