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Toni Erdmann Programme Notes
'For her third feature, Ade has returned to her family for inspiration and particularly her music teacher father.'
For one brief shining moment: Jackie
One of the defining images of the 1960’s was of Jackie Kennedy wearing a pink Chanel suit stained with her husband’s blood.
Emotion and Absence: Manchester by the Sea
Marc David Jacobs discusses the role and power of grief in Manchester by the Sea.
Silence Programme Note
Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel Silence is a film about faith, arguably exclusively for people of faith.
BA Performance Students talks Visible Cinema: RCS Curates
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland BA performance students share their thoughts on the next installment of Visible Cinema: RCS Curates
2001: A Space Odyssey Programme Note
‘..its origin and purpose still a total mystery.’ Dr Heywood R Floyd
The Son of Joseph Programme Note
There is something quietly iconoclastic about Eugène Green’s latest film Le Fils de Joseph, and the clue is quite clearly in the name.
‘You go and do it.’ - Chi-Raq Programme Note
Sean Welsh discusses the origins of Spike Lee's vital and searing satire on American gun violence.
Paterson Programme Note
The latest film from cult auteur Jim Jarmuch is a quiet, meditative look at the life of a poet and bus driver.
Production Notes: Dawn of the Deaf
Rob Savage discusses his short film Dawn of the Deaf, screening as part of a Visible Cinema programme curated by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland students.
Such Is My Devotion - The Innocents Programme Note
The Innocents offers complex moral questions, and no easy answers
Arrival Programme Note
You don’t actually see the arrival in Arrival... Nathanael Smith writes about a fresh look at a familiar premise.