Passionate, opinionated and never afraid to rip a terrible movie to shreds (we're looking at you, Entourage), Mark Kermode has built up a devoted following thanks to his weekly BBC Radio 5 live film review show with Simon Mayo.
Now Kermode will be the face of BFI Player+, selecting and introducing hidden gems and new releases for the on-demand service's Kermode Recommends series.
A champion of all things horror, we caught up with Kermode to get five recommendations for Halloween viewing. If these films frightened the life out of The Good Doctor, who knows what they'll do to the rest of us?
The Exorcist (1973)
"The thing with The Exorcist, which is my favourite film of all time, is that it still stands up to this day. The classic thing about it is exactly what [director] William Friedkin said, which is it's a film that gives to you what you bring to it.
Now Kermode will be the face of BFI Player+, selecting and introducing hidden gems and new releases for the on-demand service's Kermode Recommends series.
A champion of all things horror, we caught up with Kermode to get five recommendations for Halloween viewing. If these films frightened the life out of The Good Doctor, who knows what they'll do to the rest of us?
The Exorcist (1973)
"The thing with The Exorcist, which is my favourite film of all time, is that it still stands up to this day. The classic thing about it is exactly what [director] William Friedkin said, which is it's a film that gives to you what you bring to it.
- 10/31/2015
- Digital Spy
Above: "Boob Tube," the latest issue of cléo has arrived with a focus on television, featuring pieces on Adventure Time, Veronica Mars, Murder She Wrote and more. On the latest episode of "The Cinephiliacs," Peter Labuza chats with Notebook friend and contributor Fernando F. Croce. In Reverse Shot, Nick Pinkerton interviews Tsai Ming-liang:"Rs: In the inverse of the usual career trajectory, you have been making shorts far more proficiently than features lately. Why has that been? What are some advantages of the short format? Tsai: What is a short film? What is a long film? After Face, four years passed until I filmed Stray Dogs. Many people thought I had retired, but I actually never stopped. Because of various opportunities which presented themselves to me, I have made films of different lengths using different formats and techniques, and for different screening platforms. Stray Dogs was shown in galleries in Taiwan.
- 4/22/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
An intricate tale of ‘medicine, monopoly and malice’, Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.
Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Crime of the Century’ and save million of lives in the process.
As the film makes clear, however, this story is by no means over. With dramatic past victories having given way to serious setbacks engineered far from public view, the real fight for access to life-saving medicine is almost certainly just beginning.
Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop ‘the Crime of the Century’ and save million of lives in the process.
As the film makes clear, however, this story is by no means over. With dramatic past victories having given way to serious setbacks engineered far from public view, the real fight for access to life-saving medicine is almost certainly just beginning.
- 8/28/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
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