We said: “There is so much associated with the Cronenberg legacy that can be found in Possessor – cut-throat corporate skulduggery, weird sci-fi tech, body horror, mannered character names, extreme violence and ‘new flesh’ (here literalised). 37 new British TV period drama series you need to see in 2020. “Maybe Shirley does not quite come together here because such a large part of what forms her has been left out. The 25th Critics' Choice Awards was presented on January 12, 2020. We said: “Nanau refuses to regard the uncovering of wrongdoing as an achievement in itself; he constructs his film from interwoven strands which offer a broader perspective on the administrative toil involved in effecting lasting change, and the crucial contributions of both individual moral choices and wider democratic movements in enabling such a process.” (Trevor Johnston, S&S, December), Read our review: Collective takes a scalpel to the contagion of corruption, + interview: “Incompetence was killing the victims”: Alexander Nanau on his health-service exposé Collective, Where to see it: On various digital platforms. In fearless, scene-stealing newcomer Maria Bakalova, he has found a worthy ally for his carefully planned chaos. Here, Lee asks the audience to make a connection between Paul’s failure to come to terms with his past, which has led to him voting for Trump, and the way that America’s failure to deal with its history of slavery has contributed to feelings of white supremacy embodied in the Trump presidency. The main surprise in a typically episodic and lo-fi narrative – if it can be called that – is the more or less exclusive focus on women, where previously tensions between the sexes have been the director’s abiding preoccupation. The British Independent Film Awards work tirelessly to champion the very best in British film. A dread-filled horror of the human condition, starring Emily Mortimer as one of three generations of women affected by grandmother Edna’s dementia. This last aspect is beautifully and heartbreakingly articulated through archive and informal talks by former associates of MOVE, several of whose members were butchered by the police in 1985. It was an honour to be there. We said: “Gerwig presents a faithful adaptation of Alcott’s traditional tale, while also taking care to highlight its progressive views. Any title rated 8.1 or above can also be found in My Top 250 Films, along with some of those rated 8.0. Actually, it is a team of a hundred women who took centre-stage, and it wasn’t given to us or sacrificed for us. The best British Christmas films to watch in 2020. So what we get is a series of chatty, casual, occasionally awkward meetings with, respectively, a contentedly unmarried older woman, a wannabe artist and a career woman married to a famous man – all rendered in Hong’s patented offhand naturalism and for the most part stripped of the tricksier elements of his customary aesthetic. Berlin, a city that emerged from a swamp, has embarked on this quest again and again. Works for Sale. “The brothers made Bloody Nose this way for many reasons, including ethical considerations (getting folks drunk while filming requires a certain level of control and familiarity, for example). We say: Arguably world cinema’s number one UK-distribution dodger (though gratitude to the film streaming platform Mubi for rectifying this situation of late), the South Korean maestro of neurotic miscommunication and absurdism Hong Sangsoo resurfaces after a lengthy – by his standards – two-year absence with this somewhat unusual addition to his burgeoning canon. Brazil’s bad blood rises in a small corner of the country’s northeastern hinterlands as Udo Kier’s brigade of gringos besieges Sonia Braga’s small-town community, in this way-out western. It wasn’t performative. Shot in black-and-white 35mm, The Forty-Year-Old Version paints a loving portrait of parts of New York City that aren’t represented with such care, if at all, in narrative films of this scale. Because everything was done remotely, the film can’t help but reflect the dispersed, contingent conditions of its production – given its subject matter, a feature, not a bug. I thought, “This isn’t going to cost a lot; maybe somebody will be willing to take a chance.” I haven’t reread the book since I made the movie, but I did change a lot, and I definitely changed the character of the young woman a lot – I wanted something more for an actress to play but I also wanted to give her agency, so that it felt more about things that happen in an actual relationship, rather than the thing that the book is.”, When Romney asked Kaufman what place he felt he had in the world today, Kaufman replied in characteristic fashion: “I don’t feel secure at all. We said: “Babyteeth is a tough one to categorise and the better for it. Where to see it: In UK cinemas and coming to Blu-ray and various digital platforms. The films in this list should fulfill at least three of the following criteria: Listed here are the British nominees at the five most prestigious film award ceremonies in the English-speaking world: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, that were held during 2020, celebrating the best films of 2019. Where to see it: On BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Amazon Prime and other platforms from 27 November, and released on Blu-ray and DVD on 8 February 2021. What has changed is the emphasis. The greatest strength of The Assistant is that it forces us to understand how easy it is to turn the other way, to become complicit, because it’s impossible to do anything else. Con-trick movies, from House of Games (1987) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) to Matchstick Men (2003), usually end with a last-minute switcheroo, and Kajillionaire is no exception. The 77th Golden Globe Awards was presented on January 5, 2020. Nolan’s brainteaser builds a rollercoaster spectacle out of temporal spaghetti. Theatreland in London rivals Broadway in New York. “It was by design that the film’s young subjects would be given both the opportunity and the resources to tell their own story, on their own terms. Line Drawings| 2018; Moon Fish| 2019; British Films| 2020; CV/ Statment; Contact “It wouldn’t be a stretch to interpret the nature of Lee and Anong’s eventual coming together, and its inherent power imbalance, as a reflection on the intermingling of the personal and the professional in Tsai’s relationship with his actors. From the outset, this manages to inhabit both a Ken Loach-type drab urban space and an insidious netherworld. Mixing videotape shot in a café in the Spanish city of Cartagena with archive footage of news bulletins and commercials, and told through split-screen compositions, Luis López Carrasco’s feature explores the decisive year of 1992 in modern Spanish history. Our annual poll of the year’s top movies – at cinemas, festivals or online – as chosen by over 100 of our contributors from around the world. We said: “In an early scene, Undine gives a guided tour to a group of tourists. They carefully cast their new film, which observes a ragtag group of regulars on the last day of their favourite bar, faked the location and worked closely with their subjects/ stars to create bracingly real emotion within a partially constructed scenario. Wells’s classic, emphasising the fear of being watched. Gerwig focuses on the novel’s key coming-of-age themes rather than individual moments: the loss of childhood, the importance of forging one’s own path, tentative steps towards female emancipation. To take you on that journey where it gets to a point where it transcends, even beyond the people in the room. Johnson’s project is about the management not of filial ambivalence, outsized parental legacies or unfinished emotional business, but of love. The brothers evoked Lionel Rogosin’s seminal classic On the Bowery (1955), embraced the collaborative, broke any made-up rules they needed to and used cinema to salvage nonfiction. We said: “There was much hubbub at Sundance 2020 over the way Bill and Turner Ross made their stellar Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, including some pearl-clutching over the fact that it was even programmed in the US Documentary Competition at all. This is a list of American films that were released in 2020.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous notable films that were originally scheduled for release from mid-March to December were postponed to release in mid through late 2020 and in 2021, or were released on video on demand or on streaming services throughout 2020. A hyper-violent entry from the DC Extended Universe, with Margot Robbie’s comic villain leading the blood-soaked jamboree. Throw in psychotropic drugs, a drone that resembles a 1950s B-movie flying saucer, assassins in neon motorcycle suits and a posse of foreign mercenaries thirsty for blood, and what emerges is a shape-shifting genre yarn with surprises aplenty but maybe at times too much on its plate.” (Isabel Stevens), Read our review: Bacurau is a tough and timeless Brazilian frontier western, + Bacurau first look: a way out weird western for menacing times, Where to see it: On Blu-ray and to stream on Mubi. The Swedish master of wan deadpan ratchets up his world-historical gaze in a series of sublime microcosmic tableaux. List of the latest British movies in 2021 and the best British movies of 2020 & the 2010's. The real-life horrors of Relic, Where to see it: On BFI Player and other digital platforms. This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2020 and were at least partly produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom. Maintaining a gentle rhythm and almost wholly eschewing dialogue, for its first hour Days oscillates between depicting Anong’s daily life and following Lee as he travels to Bangkok to seek acupuncture treatment. We said: Whannell’s film gives a feminist spin to H.G. As Dick begins to show signs of confusion, her lament is disarming in its straightforwardness: “He won’t be able to follow what I’m saying, so I won’t be able to ask him for any more advice, and the whole time will just be trying to get by.” In the face of this encroaching loss, what is the value of this patricidal tableaux? Elisabeth Moss is tormented by an unseen assailant in a smart, timely update of the horror mainstay. News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. McDormand is endlessly watchable in a very open, generous performance where, with the least rhetoric, it’s clear that she’s channelling the contemporary experience of multitudes. Menu. It does not feature short films or television films. We said: “With its ostentatiously colour-blind casting, not only of the energetic and enterprising Dev Patel as Charles Dickens’s typically intrepid, buffeted young wayfarer, but in a slew of roles rich and poor peppered throughout, Armando Iannucci’s rollicking adaptation announces itself as a radical reclamation of the heritage ‘lit pic’ from the off.” (Tom Charity), Read our review: The Personal History of David Copperfield gives Dickens a radical, rollicking twist, Where to see it: On DVD, Blu-ray, BFI Player and other digital platforms. Bringing his ailing muse Lee Kang-sheng together with a younger generation in the form of Anong Houngheuangsy, Tsai returns to feature filmmaking with his most tender depiction of physical and emotional coupling. I realised that this show, like that one, is not simply us performing a series of songs, ending with our biggest hit. Birds of Prey is a whole bunch of glittery, satisfying fun – especially the unkempt, cheerful, chaotic energy of its protagonist.” (Christina Newland), Read our review: In Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn lets her hair down, Where to see it: On DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes, Amazon Prime and other digital platforms. The director of the acclaimed ‘Court’ (2014) won a Fipresci prize in Venice for this Mumbai-set drama about a man (played by real-life musician Aditya Modak) striving to attain his teachers’ artistic and spiritual standards as he pursues a career performing classical ragas. We said: “The Assistant provokes a visceral physical reaction; the churning of the stomach, the gritting of the teeth, the white-knuckle gripping of a seat edge. Frances McDormand is magnificent in Zhao’s powerful film about the people cast aside by today’s unforgiving economy, and forced to live on the road in the American West. When the characters are out, partying on the street, the camera is right there with them, a joyful participant, fluid and tactile, the music perfectly complementing the images. (Kieron Corless), Where to see it: Not currently available in the UK, but available to stream on Vimeo-on-Demand in some territories. Four drinking buddies test the theory that a steady blood-alcohol level is the key to peak human performance. I’d never experienced that before. We undergo at a stranger’s remove a version of her efforts at mental preparation for the inevitable. We said: “If the times are a-changin’, thankfully so is Sacha Baron Cohen’s approach. Blending autobiographical and observational modes, and interweaving the past and the present, the film offers both an epic and an everyday account of incarceration’s thefts – of time; of intimacy. But her third feature is fully mature: like Ryder’s lovely, clouded, wise-before-her-years gaze, it is informed by an almost ancient weariness at the way we treat young women, and the way the resilience and agency of girlhood is so frequently overlooked or condescended to. 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In comments that didn’t make it into that feature, Kaufman told Romney: “I’d been looking over the years for something to adapt and I came across this novel. We said: “About Endlessness continues in the style that Andersson has pursued since his return in 2000. The following list comprises films not produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom but is strongly associated with British culture. We said: “Koreeda’s French adventure is a substantial success, not least because he’s brought a lot of ideas and motifs from his Japanese films to the party. We’re delighted to have you join us for what we know will be an unforgettable cinematic event, featuring the very best of British filmmaking. Margot Robbie reprises her role from 2016’s Suicide Squad as the psychopathic Harley Quinn with a lippy, audacious girlishness and a gnat’s attention span. “Instead of the usual setup, the filmmaking would be organised around the idea of reciprocity, and the girls’ individual ideas considered with seriousness. Here are the 100 best British films of all time. As with Carrasco’s El futuro (2013), a reconstruction of a party to celebrate the incoming Socialist government in 1982, the lessons of history are never transparent or easily gleaned, a philosophical perspective signalled here by the use of split screen and Hi-8 video, the constructed set-up, and a subtle interplay of past and present. Mogul Mowgli is confident and confrontational, exhilarating in its willingness to constantly shift gears between absurdist comedy and vulnerable, introspective narrative.” (Kambole Campbell), Read our review: Mogul Mowgli confronts Riz Ahmed’s rapper’s battle of the soul, Where to see it: On BFI Player and coming to Blu-ray and DVD in February 2021. We said: “The celebratory, boundary-pushing story behind Rocks isn’t one of liberal goodwill from white gatekeepers who’ve chosen to decentre themselves. The omission of her experience of motherhood renders this version of Jackson the ‘witch’ she jokes about being, irrationally angry at abstract forces, rather than understandably burned out from tending offspring, husband and career.” (Hannah McGill), Read our review: Shirley doesn’t wholly come together as it picks Shirley Jackson apart. It makes for an intimate, perceptive, occasionally humorous snapshot of these women’s lives, the subtle shifts in perspective belying the seeming artlessness. Set in the upmarket London neighborhood of Notting Hill, Hugh Grant plays an unassuming bookshop owner, Will Thacker. It is a fresh, dynamic approach that may seem spun from modern feminist thought, but actually makes explicit ideas that Alcott vocally espoused. It was a spiritual experience. (Kieron Corless). (Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne, Nolan’s consultant on Interstellar, shows up again here in the credits.) It has malevolent monsters and horrified victims, and hums with a palpable sense of threat. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm offers more proof of Baron Cohen’s admirably serious comic evolution, as well as of Borat’s enduring ability to go viral, with several set pieces to bring the house down.” (Leigh Singer), Read our review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is another dose of superbly executed chaos in America’s heartlands. During a session at the Based on a True Story (Boats) conference that I co-programme at the University of Missouri, which runs concurrently with the True/False Film Fest in March, Ross brother Turner talked about searching for the perfect bar on the perfect night, a desire to conjure a deeply true feeling that couldn’t be ‘found’ like a news story. Fincher’s portrait of writer Herman J. Mankiewicz. 10SHARES / Alastair Sim as Scrooge and Francis De Wolff in the 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. This scene, extending across a good half-hour, functions as the film’s centrepiece and offers the most tender rendition of sex to be found in Tsai’s filmography. A broken health service, a dereliction of duty of care, a desperation for a connection of any kind, an unseen malevolent force playing tricks with the mind. British Airways offer a range of in-flight entertainment on longhaul flights and you can plan what you want to watch before you fly. I don’t know how anyone could feel secure in the world as it is right now. Fears of impending mortality haunt writer-director Amy Seimetz’s existential horror movie, a bleakly satirical exposé of moral emptiness and foreboding. Notably, a number of British technicians were nominated for non-British films such as Le Mans '66, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Ad Astra. To do this, the team would need to do away with hierarchy and so it was established from the beginning of the project that there would be no conventional chain of command. Josephine Decker’s adaptation of Susan Scarf Merrell’s teasingly fantasy-refracted portrait of the supernatural horror writer Shirley Jackson, played here by Elisabeth Moss. Chukwu’s spare, unsparing prison drama cuts to the heart of the injustice and inhumanity of America’s death penalty. This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2020 and were at least partly produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom. The process is just as important as what it ends up being. The real-life horrors of Relic, Mogul Mowgli confronts Riz Ahmed’s rapper’s battle of the soul, Mank prints the legend of Hollywood as a gilded cage, Limbo gives a Scottish welcome to four far-flung refugees, “We did a real séance on Zoom”: Rob Savage on video call horror Host, Ema: Pablo Larraín lights some kind of delirious inferno, Little Women emancipates Louisa May Alcott’s spirited sisters, Les Misérables: 24 hours of violence in the Paris streets, Ladj Ly on Les Misérables: “Film is a tool. As elastically portrayed in a performance of event-horizon strangeness and self-possession by newcomer Mariana Di Girólamo, Ema is an unfathomable singularity.” (Jessica Kiang), Read our review: Ema: Pablo Larraín lights some kind of delirious inferno, Where to see it: On DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Prime and other platforms. Luis López Carrasco’s film is shot in a bustling workers’ café-bar in the city centre where it gathers the testimonies of people who lived through the period. Something happened in that room, and we happened to have a camera there to record it. At one point, Old Dolio tries to stay out of sight of the landlord as she walks past his fence, craning her body sharply backwards rather than squatting; it’s a loopy and inspired piece of limbo-esque slapstick which transforms her into one of Robert Crumb’s ‘Keep on Truckin’’ figures. The undine of lore comes out of the water to find love and thus obtain a soul. Though persuasively edgy, angry and strange – and provided by Sarah Gubbins’s fine script with plenty of savage witticisms and sharp observations – her Shirley is not someone to whom the film brings us close. BHT Staff | @BH__Travel Dec 16, 2020. It also does not include films screened in previous years that had official release dates in 2020. Where the film does chime magnificently is in the performance of Delroy Lindo as Paul, and the suggestion that past failings undermine present-day relationships. ” (Alex Ramon), Read our review: Mangrove relays Black British struggles of the past, + Mangrove gives voice to Black British Power, + “These are the untold stories that make up our nation”: Steve McQueen on Small Axe, Where to see it: On BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime. Scroll past the images to view the list in plain text And though the best British films will arguably always be those led b posh accents, grand English country estates, and Colin Firth, the movies on this list prove there's so … We said: “WolfWalkers follows the Irish director Tomm Moore’s hand-drawn cartoon films The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014). As Covid-prompted lockdowns led to increasing levels of domestic violence, The Invisible Man held a mirror up to the routine horrors scarring many everyday lives. The 50 best films of 2020. A radio operator and a presenter discover a menacing sound on the airwaves in this scintillating retro UFO tale. (Laughs)”, Read our review: I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman’s new nightmare surpasses all expectations, + “I don’t know how anyone could feel secure in the world as it is right now”: an interview with Charlie Kaufman. They’re present in Merrell’s novel, but vanished here. No one does quintessential British humor better. Academy Awards. At 200 minutes the complexities of the situation are given scope to reveal themselves in a manner that feels just and thoroughly invigorating. We said: “This is a highly personal story about being torn between ‘making it’, selling out, and forging a path as an MC. Larraín’s latest unleashes Mariana Di Girólamo as a peroxide pyromaniac dancer involved in a wild plot to reclaim her adopted son. Marcello elaborates the story’s symbolic thrust through an ambiguous treatment of period. As Ikoko points out, ‘That implies that all of the responsibility, therefore all of the kudos, is on them. Alfre Woodard puts in a phenomenal performance, expressing Bernadine’s churning inner turmoil through her resigned expression, downcast eyes and hunched shoulders.” (Nikki Baughan, S&S, September), Read our review: In Clemency, death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden, Where to see it: available to buy or stream on BFI Player, iTunes, Amazon Prime and other platforms. The best films of 2020 (so far): from Extraction to Portrait of a Lady on Fire From disturbing descents into madness via Robert Pattinson and Elisabeth Moss to … The British Isles are small bunch of green and pleasant rocks just off the coast of mainland Europe. Bacurau is a small impoverished town in the arid north-eastern hinterlands of Brazil; but it’s also a utopia of sorts, with its tight-knit community who stand firm against exterior threats. Koreeda’s naturalistic drama sees Catherine Deneuve play a monstrous movie star and Juliette Binoche the daughter outraged by her euphemistic memoir. Earlier this week, Telegraph film critics Tim Robey and Robbie Collin compiled their definitive list of the 100 greatest British films of all time.Now it’s your turn. The Truth consolidates the shift in his recent work to looser and more conceptual plotting, but it also reaches all the way back to After Life (1998) for some wry reflections on summing up life trajectories and the practical uses of artifice.” (Tony Rayns), Read our review: The Truth: Catherine Deneuve plays a monstrous movie star in Koreeda’s French adventure, Where to see it: On Curzon Home Cinema, Blu-ray and DVD. The centrepiece in McQueen’s five-film ‘Small Axe’ anthology depicts the true story of the protests and landmark court case involving the ‘Mangrove Nine’ that followed discriminatory police raids on a Notting Hill restaurant. Okay, so no list of British movies is complete without at least two Richard Curtis films. Rating and reviewing films watched and to watch, released in the UK in 2020. The brothers have long embraced the elasticity of the form; the ‘realness’ of their second film Tchoupitoulas was questioned in various corners, and their third documentary Western was a genre film with all the constructedness that implies. Top British movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now. This canny first feature from Remi Weekes finds fresh terrors for two South Sudanese refugees in the back rooms beyond British social realism. We said: “Poignant and intensely moving, Days gestures towards a reconciliation with themes of desire and sexuality that have troubled Tsai’s cinema since the beginning. As the film’s palindromic title hints, a lot of the action runs both forwards and backwards, often simultaneously on screen, making for some impressively virtuosic spectacle.” (Philip Kemp), Read our review: Tenet: Christopher Nolan throws time for a loop, Where to see it: On DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Prime and other digital platforms. It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films, and interactive films. Weekes stages a number of stunning moments – a pull-back from Bol sat at an unfamiliar table to show a chunk of the wall of his house floating in a remembered night-sea; and repeated manifestations by the formidable night witch and the skull-masked spectre of the lost girl. (Kieron Corless), Read our review: The Woman Who Ran turns circles telling stories, Where to see it: On Mubi from 20 December, along with two earlier Hong Sangsoo films – Tale of Cinema (2005) and Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013), Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil. Maud’s horror is our horror. “Moss, tasked both with portraying a well-known and visually distinctive real-life person and with playing multiple scenes that may or may not be occurring only in the realm of fantasy, has the harder job. Humor is such a subjective thing. As in his earlier experiments in hybrid storytelling, short clips interspersed throughout serve as lyrical counterpoints to the narrative. Things are so awful, so who cares where my career is? It was very dreamy and somewhat nightmarish, which appealed to me, but it was also very contained – it was basically four characters, and it takes place in a car and in a farmhouse. 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