Snow Cake

A proper film with Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss. You may want to give up after 10 minutes. Don’t. It’s worth it.

Original score by the lovely Candian indie band, Broken Social Scene.

Between the Lines – Railways in Fiction and Film

Only two days left. Watch it. Quick! (Thanks Matt)

London to Brighton in four minutes

A TV classic, these little films pop up on BBC4 from time to time, in far better quality than the youtube versions. Good to see iplayer access for them.

Springtime in an English Village (1944)

I heard about the BFI’s YouTube channel on the radio this evening and rushed over to have a look. There are dozens of short films and clips from a hundred years or so of British film, including some funky stuff from Germaine Greer and lots of themed material like these London films. I’ve chosen a [...]

Broken Flowers

Blimey. A Jim Jarmusch movie on iPlayer. I missed it when it went out so you’ve only got a couple of days to watch it. Still, it’s got to be better than Northern Irish tiger worriers. Jarmusch’s second proper movie, which was his big break, Down by Law, came out while I was (nominally) studying [...]