by Film Moderator | Nov 18, 2018 | Film
As the British Film Institute launches the Philip French Collection as part of its library, Carcanet Press is publishing a volume of hand-selected reviews spanning half a century. Marianne Gray writes… Notes From the Dream House Selected Film Reviews 1963...
by Film Moderator | Nov 5, 2018 | Film, Uncategorized
The UK Critics’ Circle Film Section is thrilled to announce six new members for 2018/19. Film Section Chair Anna Smith calls them “exceptional”. They are: Erika Balsom, Sight and Sound, Artforum and Frieze Philip de Semlyen, Global Film Editor of Time Out Simran Hans,...
by Rick Jones | Oct 4, 2018 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts
On 3rd October 2018, Britain’s foremost artist David Hockney received the Critics’ Circle award for Distinguished Service to Art. The relaxed ceremony took place over lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club, London, a beautiful venue with access through long french...
by Film Moderator | Sep 18, 2018 | Film
London Critics’ Circle Film Award winners Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have joined a host of writers and filmmakers supporting PEN International’s Free Oleg Sentsov campaign, writes PEN’s Sheila Bailey. Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian writer and film director, was...
by hello_27687r2a | Aug 27, 2018 | Film
Mansel Stimpson writes about an Irish film that confronts truths about the bad influence that prison can have. The tone established by writer/director Frank Berry is enormously important here. Michael Inside is, as the very title suggests, a film about being in prison...
by Film Moderator | Jul 3, 2018 | Film
by Anna Smith, President, The Critics’ Circle. When I think of Jaws, I often think of my friend Kirsten, who first saw it as a child, in hospital after having had her tonsils out. When her visiting aunt nodded off in front of the TV in her private room, she was...
