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The Night is available on digital platforms from 2 April. In The Night, a young couple check into a haunted hotel and discover theyâve brought more ghosts with them than they find on the premises. Itâs a familiar set-up, though director and co-writer Kourosh Ahari doesnât fall into the trap of rationalising every phantasm away as a manifestation of unresolved issues. Among Ahariâs earlier work is a short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilmanâs classic psychological/feminist ghost story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892); here, he draws on a variety of film texts â including such spooky hotel dramas as The Shining (1980), Barton Fink (1991), 1408 (2007) and The Innkeepers (2011) â to ground his own original take. ....
Karel Reisz & Tony Richardson, 1955 One of the foundation stones of British Free Cinema, this 22-minute short shows trad antics at Wood Green Jazz Club, with the Chris Barber Band featuring Lonnie Donegan. Years later, Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1985) would be derided for its high-gloss reimagining of the London jazz scene in its heyday, but with input from Gil Evans and a dazzling fantasia on Charles Mingus’s Boogie Stop Shuffle, it’s not to be dismissed. The Connection Shirley Clarke, 1961 Jazz was as vital to the new American independent cinema of the 1950s and 60s as it was to the era’s poetry and painting. One of the most famous jazz-influenced films of this period was John Cassavetes’s Shadows (1959), but just as vital was Clarke’s film, based on Jack Gelber’s play about a group of jazz-scene heroin addicts waiting for their man: among the cast, pianist Freddie Redd, who wrote the score, and altoist Jackie McLean. ....
In Young Man with a Horn (1949), Kirk Douglas impersonated a jazz trumpeter whose running battle against the straitjacket of commercialised music was modelled on the life story of Bix Beiderbecke. When his mentor in jazz, an old-time Black musician, was finally claimed by tuberculosis, he was required to improvise a funeral elegy in appropriate tribute. The result was unbelievably vulgar. Since the secret was proudly proclaimed at the time that this solo was in fact dubbed by Harry James, the rigidly raucous James trumpet has justly had to shoulder the blame for adding one more to the filmâs many grievous offences against New Orleans. ....
Sign up for Sight & Soundâs Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email ⶠThe Drifters is available in virtual cinemas on 2 April and on demand on digital platforms on 5 April. A Vote Leave ensign flying on a Devon fishing boat and multiple flags of St George in the local streets pointedly sketch in the hostile environment of Brexit-era Britain, but the social context for writer-director Benjamin Bondâs debut feature seems like window-dressing for whatâs in the end a timeless lovers-on-the-run affair. As the title suggests, whatâs at stake for the central characters â an illegal African migrant fleeing violent traffickers and the rootless French waitress by his side â is how to find a place to settle down. ....
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