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Europe’s Finest Silent Films

The Europe’s Finest catalogue of films embodies the diversity of European cinema over the last century, from the Icelandic film wave of recent years right back to European silent cinema. It is these that I review in this post. Growth of the Soil | Gunnar Sommerfeldt | 1921 | Norway | 89 mins | (Not rated […]

Two greats of contemporary asian cinema

The latest distributor to join the BFFS Booking Scheme is Third Window Films, with 30 new titles representing some of the best of contemporary Asian cinema. In this post I review two of the new films, Himizu a love story and revenge thriller set in a dystopian vision of post-tsunami Japan; and The President’s Last Bang, a lavish, […]