Daniel Granville

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival - it was a pleasure sharing GHOST STORY with you, and seeing such interesting and varied horror cinema from around the globe.

A wonderful pair of days at Channel 4 as part of the Leap Collective x Channel 4 Networking Lab.

More good news:

Congratulations to Joseph Adelakun for his Best Actor nomination at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival for his lead performance in GHOST STORY

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The UVHFF screening will place in London this coming Sunday.

ICA | A Moving Image of Eternity: The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

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Festivals where you can see GHOST STORY this autumn.

Here’s a list of them all in one place: www.instagram.com/p/DQHWy8ODMf...

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Delighted to announce that GHOST STORY will have its London premiere at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival!

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We’ll be screening at 5pm on Sunday November 2nd at the Hens and Chickens Theatre.

A ★★★★★ review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Graciously introduced by the director, one of this year's honourees here at RIFF, this oneric dream in cinematic form is constructed out of the associative metonymies of human memory and the structure...

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A ★★★★★ review of Drowning Dry (2024) An excellent feature that draws upon spectatorial insight and inference to unfold its story of parallel familial turmoil. Beautifully crafted, from writing and cinematography to editing and direction....

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A ★★★ review of As Silence Passes by (2024) Threading the line between documentary and fiction, this film depicts moments of interesting character in an otherwise loose whole.

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A ★★★★ review of The Mastermind (2025) Another sharply directed mannerist comedy-drama from Kelly Reichardt’s imagination. Here, as in the best of her work, the interstices of a personal mythologising endemic to the American personalities ...

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Delighted to be part of the Talent Lab for this year’s @reykjavikfilmfestival

I’m looking forward to meeting all my fellow filmmakers, and enjoying the films that will be screening this year ☺️🙌🏾🥳

A Table for Fortune Coming 2026!

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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025) What a pleasure to watch such a well made film.  Excellent.

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A ★★★★★ review of Knight of Cups (2015) The experience of watching this film recalls the roving camera odyssey's of Alexander Sukurov's "Russian Ark" and Andrzej Żuławski's "On the Silver Globe. The picaresque metaphysical journey is exceed...

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Lots of exciting new films coming soon! 😃

A ★★★★ review of Transformers (2007) Strong CGI work and comedy within this epic sci-fi action film. Hollywood filmmaking at its best.

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A ★★★★★ review of Gattaca (1997) A humanist science fiction film par excellence. Sławomir Idziak's stunning cinematography shapes these characters in light and with director Andrew Niccol's mise-en-scene, such that the retrofuturist ...

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In the late 19thC, Philip Wilson Steer looked to France for new painting styles. His 'Fisher Children, Étaples,' (1884) with its hazy Whistlerian view and groups of children is signposted in other paintings of this era especially in work made at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast.

A ★★★★ review of AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) An entertaining franchise melange that is stronger for its harkening to Conrad and John Carpenter in its opening third.

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A ★★★★★ review of The Fly (1986) Spectacular in the truest sense, and constructed with a maturity and attention to the gothic influences of science fiction.

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From Ophüls' Madame de...: Louise and Baron Donati, in a medium shot, waltzing and falling in love; the other dancers are out of focus, the background punctuated by candlelight.

From Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut: Alice and Sandor, in a medium shot, dancing and flirting; the other party guests are out of focus, the background swarming with Christmas lights.

Madame de… (d. Max Ophüls) and Eyes Wide Shut (d. Stanley Kubrick).

It’s easy to see why Kubrick was inspired by Ophüls’ use of camera movement to transport characters and audience to another plane of reality. The effect can be romantic but also dizzying, a dream that waltzes into a nightmare.

Bill Brayshaw, a former policeman, found fame as the dozing art gallery attendant after Harry Rutherford's portrait of him was used as the front cover of the magazine 'John Bull' in 1947. Walter Sickert later said Rutherford was his 'intellectual heir and executor.'

A ★★★★½ review of Calendar (1993) A moving constructed fantasy on perceptions of memory and loss through Egoyan's intelligent direction.

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A ★★★★½ review of Inherent Vice (2014) The distinctly mannerist construction of cinematic texture here makes for an engaging and peripatetic irony - utterly Pynchonian - in this adaptation. The mise-en-shot of the scenes themselves enable ...

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Everything That Happens in Red Desert (38) Giuliana and her environment

‘There is nothing in the film beyond what you feel,’ said Antonioni to an interviewer. There is nothing in Red Desert beyond what Giuliana feels (or beyond what you feel about her feelings), so how can you understand the role of her environment in shaping her (and your) emotional state? #filmsky

A ½ review of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) A Big Bold Bullshit Script. Saccharine and Earnest™️, this dreck cannot be saved by the dual lead performances of a chemistry-less Margot Robbie and Collin Farrell. A suite of talented performers wast...

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All Is Well You get: pdf of the score, mp3 of the recording, and rehearsal track mp3s for each of the parts. This is in the Amidon's book & CD 'Fifty-five Anthems for the Small Church Choir'. Sung here by the...

The History of Sound is out now in the US! I want to give a special shout out to my dad, Peter Amidon, who did a beautiful arrangement of "All Is Well," which is featured in the film. You can listen to and download his arrangement here: amidoncommunitymusic.com/products/all...

YouTube video by McQueen Documenting McQueen: Tailoring ​, Episode 1: 'Dante' Autumn Winter 1996

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