Ian Haydn Smith Talks Kurosawa at the BFI
Film fans rejoice. In January and February, the BFI Southbank presents Kurosawa: A Complete Film Season. All thirty solo directorial films are showing, often with introductions from experts on the…
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Yasujiro Ozu & BFI Japan 2020 (feat. Alexander Jacoby) – The Movie Robcast
Welcome to this bonus episode of The Movie Robcast. The BFI Player Japan 2020 season continues in June with a collection dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, joining fantastic collections on Akira…
Family Matters – Alexander Jacoby Discusses Yasujiro Ozu
The BFI Player Japan 2020 season continues in June with a collection dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, joining fantastic collections on Akira Kurosawa and Classic Japanese movies. A giant of Japanese…
Hidden Stains – Jon Knautz Talks The Cleaning Lady
His 2007 feature debut may have been titled Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, but writer/director Jon Knautz has become a filmmaker notable for movies providing women with complex, meaty roles. Sure,…
Dark Alchemy – Sam Ashurst Talks Frankenstein’s Creature
Perhaps the most unusual film playing at FrightFest 2018 is Sam Ashurst’s singular directorial debut, Frankenstein’s Creature. Based on a one-man play by the film’s star James Swanton, it…
Ranger Danger – Jenn Wexler On Creating Horror’s New Bad Boy
Currently making an impact on the festival circuit, Jenn Wexler’s The Ranger is a horror home-run. When a gang of punks run foul of the law they flee to a…
Lean, Green Thrilling Machine – Jeremy Saulnier talks Green Room
Channelling the same sweaty-palmed tension, blood black humour and savage brilliance of Night of the Living Dead, Straw Dogs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Assault on Precinct 13 (phew!), Green…
Mei Leng Yew talks Safiyah Flies Across The Ocean
As movie lengths grow ever longer and more arduous, the short film continues to prove good things often come in small packages. One such good thing is Safiyah Flies Across The…
Brad Pitt and David Ayer Talk Fury
Depicting the last just war as a hellish landscape of body parts and impossible moral quandaries, Fury is a potent mix of a guys on a mission movie shot with…
Mizuho Nishikubo talks Giovanni’s Island
Two brothers’ experiences on an island off the North tip of Japan in the year’s after World War 2 form the core of Mizuho Nishikubo’s Giovanni’s Island. When the Soviet…