Time Bandits
TIME BANDITS is the first in Gilliam’s trilogy which also includes BRAZIL and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Picturehouse’s “Culture Shock” strand brought the remastered BANDITS to Cambridge.
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Film Quiz Monday Night
Take One and Bums on Seats (Cambridge 105) co-host a film quiz on the first Monday of every month. This Monday, brush up on your Disney villains.
Arts Picturehouse Film Quiz
Print and radio join forces as Take One and Cambridge 105 co-host a new film quiz on the first Monday of every month. Expect the unexpected from 7pm to 10pm in the APH bar.
La Captive
This month’s theme is lesbian Belgian directors. Chantal Akerman hates labels but fits the bill. We look back at her drowsy meditation on Proustian obsession, LA CAPTIVE.
Il Grido
The streets are waterlogged. The workers are revolting. Antonioni’s GRIDO is a simple tale of lost love and bleak perambulation, of snatched moments and merciless mechanics.
Boccaccio ’70
At the Queen’s Film Theatre in Belfast, the Belfast Film Festival overlaps with the Italian Film Festival this week. Rosy Hunt looks back at a classic Italian anthology film.
A Time To Love And A Time to Die
Today’s date in 1944 saw the Crimean offensive in full flow. Douglas Sirk sets a glossy romance against the grim backdrop of the Russian-German front.
April Fools
After being called fat by Gallo – “One day I will be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.” #EbertQuotes
Henry Fool
Henry Fool is a Luddite ronin with a skeleton in his closet and an albatross around his neck. Rosy Hunt looks back at a Shakespearian Hartley classic.
Petulia
Happy 79th Birthday to Richard Chamberlain, who subverted his frequent role of gallant, whether prince, count or doctor, with a brilliantly balanced portrayal of beauty and beast in PETULIA.