Wondering what to watch this weekend? The middle of the month provides a hectic time in theatres, mostlikely as suppliers of more modest, mid-budget fare effort to get their due compensation priorto another Marvel film (Doctor Strange 2 next) undoubtedly sweeps in and soaksup the discourse as well as all offered multiplex screens.
This week’s slate of brand-new UK streaming releases likewise supplies an alternative, most of all in director Joanna Hogg’s amazing follow-up to The Souvenir, The Souvenir Part II. Meanwhile, a number of movies by beloved of the Korean brand-new wave Park Chan-wook are up for seeing, with his significantly prominent Oldboy as well as previously hit Joint Security Area both striking BFI Player.
Read more: New on Disney+ in April
At the verysame time, those looking for gentler options to the bloody violent and wild tonal shifts of Park’s work (or simply starving for more Hamlet-inspired fiction after The Northman) would do well to note that animated timeless The Lion King has landed on BBC iPlayer.
Please note that a membership might be needed to watch.
The Souvenir: Part II – MUBI (pick of the week)
Following on from her seriously well-known autofiction movie The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg’s rather unforeseen followup The Souvenir Part II digs even muchdeeper into the borders inbetween art and self. It sees Honor Swinton Byrne’s Julia unloading her turbulent relationship with Tom Burke’s charming however manipulative character from The Souvenir, in a graduate movie.
Read more: New on Netflix in April
There are a number of layers at work in Julia’s thesis movie and the making of it both around her own position of opportunity and her newfound option in subject, however The Souvenir Part II is likewise just a interesting character researchstudy as well as a sort of narrative. One of the finest movies of the last year, one that unfortunately flew under awards season radars for whatever factor — and when you see Richard Ayoade in this movie, you’ll likewise be baffled as to why.
Also brand-new on MUBI: Waltz With Bashir, Showgirls
JSA: Joint Security Area – BFI Player
Directed by globally cherished Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, one of his earliest movies Joint Security Area is likewise possibly one of his most underrated. A dark funny and thriller taking location in the demilitarised zone inbetween North and South Korea, as a murder secret unfolds along that precarious line.
There’s likewise a unfortunately sweet kinship at its core inbetween a group of soldiers technically on opposite sides, their childish earnestness tinged with a sense of terrible inevitability: of course this can neverever end well. While not rather as luridly elegant as something like The Handmaiden or even Oldboy, it has all of the wonderful trademarks of Park’s lateron works, as well as the unforeseen however wonderful swerves in both narrative and tone, such as a soldier tearfully sendingout away a pup that he can’t keep, informing it to “watch out for landmines”.
Oldboy – BFI Player
Based on the Japanese manga of the verysame name, Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy — a entrance to cult worldwide cult movietheater for lotsof an teen cinephile — informs the story of Oh Dae-su, a male abducted and held detainee for 15 years, launched for factors unidentified. He then cuts a violent swathe throughout the nation as he attempts to piece together the secret of his kidnapping, both who the perpetrator is, and why.
Though it’s keptinmind for its harsh, single-take corridor battle, the genuine draw of Oldboy is its monstrous, fable-like quality, like a modern fairytale shone through a entirely morbid prism. Live octopus intake, damaged limbs and severed tongues all function — audience beware.
Also offered on BFI Player: I Am Not a Witch, A Toops of Sin
The Lion King – BBC iPlayer
Looking for more of the verysame after seeing brand-new movietheater release The Northman? Well, here’s another unanticipated remodeling of Hamlet / Amleth for you.
One of the centrepieces of the ‘Disney Renaissance’ age for the House of Mouse’s animated studios, this Oscar-winning animated timeless from directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (their function launching!) informs the story of Simba, a lion prince cast out from his kingdom after his uncle Scar (Jeremy Irons in the camp voice function of a lifetime) murders his daddy and takes the throne.
Making brand-new allies (and fans) in his exile, Simba goes on a journey to end Scar’s tyranny. The mix of brilliant, vibrant visual discussion with (relatively) more reasonable framing and character animation (the animators had to researchstudy wildlife as the characters weren’t anthropomorphised), makes The Lion King a banquet for the eyes, and maybe a gentler half to a double costs of Hamlet-inspired stories.
Also on iPlayer: Official Secrets, The Imitation Game
Watch: Joanna Hogg talks The Souvenir Part II at Cannes
.
Wondering what to watch this weekend? The middle of the month provides a hectic time in theatres, mostlikely as suppliers of more modest, mid-budget fare effort to get their due compensation priorto another Marvel film (Doctor Strange 2 next) undoubtedly sweeps in and soaksup the discourse as well as all offered multiplex screens.
This week’s slate of brand-new UK streaming releases likewise supplies an alternative, most of all in director Joanna Hogg’s amazing follow-up to The Souvenir, The Souvenir Part II. Meanwhile, a number of movies by beloved of the Korean brand-new wave Park Chan-wook are up for seeing, with his significantly prominent Oldboy as well as previously hit Joint Security Area both striking BFI Player.
Read more: New on Disney+ in April
At the verysame time, those looking for gentler options to the bloody violent and wild tonal shifts of Park’s work (or simply starving for more Hamlet-inspired fiction after The Northman) would do well to note that animated timeless The Lion King has landed on BBC iPlayer.
Please note that a membership might be needed to watch.
The Souvenir: Part II – MUBI (pick of the week)
Following on from her seriously well-known autofiction movie The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg’s rather unforeseen followup The Souvenir Part II digs even muchdeeper into the borders inbetween art and self. It sees Honor Swinton Byrne’s Julia unloading her turbulent relationship with Tom Burke’s charming however manipulative character from The Souvenir, in a graduate movie.
Read more: New on Netflix in April
There are a number of layers at work in Julia’s thesis movie and the making of it both around her own position of opportunity and her newfound option in subject, however The Souvenir Part II is likewise just a interesting character researchstudy as well as a sort of narrative. One of the finest movies of the last year, one that unfortunately flew under awards season radars for whatever factor — and when you see Richard Ayoade in this movie, you’ll likewise be baffled as to why.
Also brand-new on MUBI: Waltz With Bashir, Showgirls
JSA: Joint Security Area – BFI Player
Directed by globally cherished Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, one of his earliest movies Joint Security Area is likewise possibly one of his most underrated. A dark funny and thriller taking location in the demilitarised zone inbetween North and South Korea, as a murder secret unfolds along that precarious line.
There’s likewise a unfortunately sweet kinship at its core inbetween a group of soldiers technically on opposite sides, their childish earnestness tinged with a sense of terrible inevitability: of course this can neverever end well. While not rather as luridly elegant as something like The Handmaiden or even Oldboy, it has all of the wonderful trademarks of Park’s lateron works, as well as the unforeseen however wonderful swerves in both narrative and tone, such as a soldier tearfully sendingout away a pup that he can’t keep, informing it to “watch out for landmines”.
Oldboy – BFI Player
Based on the Japanese manga of the verysame name, Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy — a entrance to cult worldwide cult movietheater for lotsof an teen cinephile — informs the story of Oh Dae-su, a male abducted and held detainee for 15 years, launched for factors unidentified. He then cuts a violent swathe throughout the nation as he attempts to piece together the secret of his kidnapping, both who the perpetrator is, and why.
Though it’s keptinmind for its harsh, single-take corridor battle, the genuine draw of Oldboy is its monstrous, fable-like quality, like a modern fairytale shone through a entirely morbid prism. Live octopus intake, damaged limbs and severed tongues all function — audience beware.
Also offered on BFI Player: I Am Not a Witch, A Toops of Sin
The Lion King – BBC iPlayer
Looking for more of the verysame after seeing brand-new movietheater release The Northman? Well, here’s another unanticipated remodeling of Hamlet / Amleth for you.
One of the centrepieces of the ‘Disney Renaissance’ age for the House of Mouse’s animated studios, this Oscar-winning animated timeless from directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (their function launching!) informs the story of Simba, a lion prince cast out from his kingdom after his uncle Scar (Jeremy Irons in the camp voice function of a lifetime) murders his daddy and takes the throne.
Making brand-new allies (and fans) in his exile, Simba goes on a journey to end Scar’s tyranny. The mix of brilliant, vibrant visual discussion with (relatively) more reasonable framing and character animation (the animators had to researchstudy wildlife as the characters weren’t anthropomorphised), makes The Lion King a banquet for the eyes, and maybe a gentler half to a double costs of Hamlet-inspired stories.
Also on iPlayer: Official Secrets, The Imitation Game
Watch: Joanna Hogg talks The Souvenir Part II at Cannes
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