I’ll concede that my selection this week is eclectic but I’ll argue that the three picks are sort of tenuously linked together by their haunting qualities. Read in that what you will. So here’s a series, a doc and a fiction film. DEVS - Available on BBC iPlayer I think "haunting" probably best describes Alex Garland’s miniseries Devs. Absolutely gorgeously shot, Devs is set in some sort of (…) Continue Reading »

An elderly man insists on granting his wife’s wish of taking their car through a drive-thru car wash. Could you explain the title? The title Skewwhiff meant a couple of things to me. On one level, Bill’s shirt collar becomes “skewwhiff” or askew at one point and Rae adjusts it for him. This felt like a worthy moment to use as a title as we get the sense Rae has spent her life caring for (…) Continue Reading »

During a trip to the Philippines, middle-aged, Norwegian Lars has met Abigail - the Filipina he wants to share his life with, but does she share his plans? I’m so pleased to finally be able to share this interview that we carried out at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival 2020. The Manila Lover, which premiered at Semaine de la Critique, was one of my favourite shorts, a (…) Continue Reading »

Mydylarama is looking forward to teaming up with the EFN team. Keep your eyes open... With the world’s film festival and screening events on an indefinite hiatus, the Emerging Filmmakers Night programming team, filmmaker Erifili Missiou, comic (…) Continue Reading »

Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival [JAEFF producer George Crosthwait picks his three favourite Japanese films currently available on streaming platforms in the UK. Visitor Q – Mubi First up is something thoroughly deranged. (…) Continue Reading »

More top picks from our team. Here are Tommy’s Netflix recommendations. Fartsa Fartsa TV series Trailes-HD with sub from Sreda Production Company on Vimeo. A smart, vibrant Russian drama series about a young group of friends in the Soviet Union, 1961 - exploring the phenomenon of Fartovska, the act of illegally buying and selling foreign goods and currency. This particularly Soviet (…) Continue Reading »

La suite de nos recommandations de films, séries et documentaires à voir en ligne, en attendant des jours meilleurs. Validé - MyCanal et avec Canal+ Séries Clément, aka Apash, défie Mastar, le boss du rap game, lorsqu’il highjack son Planète Rap sur Skyrock. Son freestyle surprise en fait la nouvelle star du rap, en même temps qu’il déchaîne la jalousie de ses rivaux… Validé chronique (…) Continue Reading »

Documentary Weekly As unfortunate and disruptive as the Covid-19 outbreak has been for the film industry, the resulting boom of online releases will be welcomed by cinephiles around the world. On March 20th, Alla Kovga’s highly anticipated « (…) Continue Reading »

During this hopefully short-lived period of confinement, we’ll bring you some new releases, old gems and freebies that are now available on streaming platforms or video on demand to help distract us all from our currently precarious financial and emotional conditions. We’ll post 2 or 3 titles at a time, starting with these recent releases: Bacurau - MUBI Bacurau is a small, isolated and (…) Continue Reading »

What better time to unearth this early short by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve? In the midst of the supermarket hording that is quickly characterising these end times, Netflix is showing Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform, whose obscene (…) Continue Reading »