Category: Films

HIDDEN FIGURES HIDDEN FIGURES, tells the story of African-American women,mathematicians, involved crucially in the NASA Space Program in the1960’s, in its race with the Soviet Union and its Space program. In2017, a story of timely importance, definitely politically, for ourtimes. It is an important story, then. I, I should confess, was moved,cried and smiled often. Manipulated pleasantly like the rest of you. This was despite the film-making having all the hall marks of anAffirmative Action movie that Ticks All the Boxes on how to make apopular commercial product. Now, there is nothing, essentially, wrongwith that except it is, in this…

PATERSON PATERSON is a new film by Jim Jarmusch. It follows a week (a Monday to Monday) in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, who writes poetry, is married to Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), a home-body ‘adventuring’ with artistic explorations in ‘black and white’ forays, with an English Bulldog, called Marvin (Nellie), for company. Every day has a similar pattern of task, at variance only on the weekend. It is about the little everyday world and the ordinary intimacies of exchange between the casual acquaintances of the bus route and his nightly visit to…

The year has begun with some ‘flicks’ of a wonderfully high order. JACKIE JACKIE is Directed by Pablo Larrain (NERUDA), Written by Noah Oppenheim. It focuses on the 4 days after the assassination of President John Kennedy and the public ceremony that commemorated his funeral. The framework of the story we are told is centred around the famous interview between LIFE Magazine journalist, Theodore H White and Jackie Kennedy. This gives room for the film to roam, selectively, back and forth over the life of Jackie with Kennedy, with an especially interesting re-creation of the black and white White House…