P.S. Burn This Letter Please – BFI Flare 2021 Review
by Jordan King In 2014, a box was found in a Los Angeles storage unit. It was filled with hundreds of letters addressed to elusive American radio host Reno Martin. As it transpires, Martin was the confidante of choice for … Continue reading P.S. Burn This Letter Please – BFI Flare 2021 Review
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson – BFI Flare 2021 Review
by Nathan Osborne A bold and bracing effort, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson tackles race, homosexuality and a time loop in this timely but messy debut from Ali LeRoi. The titular Tunde Johnson is a tragic victim of police brutality, … Continue reading The Obituary of Tunde Johnson – BFI Flare 2021 Review
Alien On Stage – SXSW 2021 Review
by Jordan King Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien is arguably the greatest sci-fi horror film of all time. Paranoid Dramatics are an am-dram theatre outfit consisting of a group of Dorset bus drivers. Alien on Stage, the play and now … Continue reading Alien On Stage – SXSW 2021 Review
Tove – BFI Film Festival 2021 Review
by Jordan King Receiving its UK premiere at BFI Flare, Zaida Bergroth’s Tove is an affectionately written, classily directed film that chronicles a decade in the life of bisexual Moomins creator and Finnish national treasure Tove Jansson. Beginning as World … Continue reading Tove – BFI Film Festival 2021 Review
Firebird – BFI Flare 2021 Review
by Nathan Osborne Making its world premiere at BFI Flare, Peeter Rebane’s familiar but beautifully crafted feature debut is a soaring exploration of masculinity, homophobia and sexuality in secret. Set at the height of the Cold War and based on … Continue reading Firebird – BFI Flare 2021 Review
Sound of Violence – SXSW Review
by Anton Bitel Slashers and other kinds of psychodrama typically feature a sequence which, in a phrase borrowed from Sigmund Freud, gets called the ‘primal scene‘ – often opening the film, or shown in flashback, and capturing the formative psychosexual … Continue reading Sound of Violence – SXSW Review
