Little Theatre Cinema, Bath

My Neighbour Totoro

The film that first brought Miyazaki to international attention remains an animated achievement almost without parallel. The first half delicately captures both mystery and quietness as two little girls move with their father to a remote new home in...

Something in the Air

Olivier Assayas’s ‘Something in the Air’ is a swooning and swirling but always level-headed study of the lives of a small group of suburban Parisian teenagers in the years soon after 1968. An ensemble drama with a pleasingly light touch, it looks bac...

Oz the Great and Powerful

It’s been 28 years since Disney last followed the Yellow Brick Road – and given the critical and commercial whipping endured by 1985’s tangled, terrifying ‘Return to Oz’, you can hardly blame them for being cautious. Such is the cultural landmark sta...

Grave Of The Fireflies

A janitor rifles through the possessions of a recently deceased boy and throws out some ashes and bones from a tin. These remnants spark to life as the spirits of 14-year-old Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, who were caught in the devastating at...

Royal Opera House: Donna Del Lago

Timmy Time

Reality

Neapolitan fishmonger Luciano is one of the most colourful characters in his bustling community. While attending a family wedding, Luciano crosses paths with former Big Brother contestant Enzo, who makes a small fortune from personal appearances and...

I'm So Excited

One litmus test for auteurism could be whether a director is able to do his or her thing in a tightly confined space. ‘Stagecoach’ and ‘Lifeboat’ are unmistakably the work of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, despite being largely confined to, well, a...

The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone

Globe On Screen: Henry V

The Apartment

Bud Baxter works at a New York insurance firm. In order to secure promotion, Bud allows his superiors to use his apartment for meetings with their mistresses. It seems a small price to pay for career advancement. Problems arise, however, when Bud rea...

Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict

The life of composer Benjamin Britten is such fascinating documentary material. A shame then that this blend of clunky dramatic reconstruction and earnest arts-TV assessment isn’t a whole lot better. Here was a hugely significant creative figure, who...

Village at the End of the World

This charming doc portrays a remote Inuit village – population, 59 and falling – in northern Greenland over the period of a bit more than a year. Much like its subject, this film by Sarah Gavron (‘Brick Lane’) has a leisurely, warm pace. We witness t...