2024

Movies, Music and Books for Christmas… and Beyond

Posted on November 30, 2024December 18, 2024 by Geoff Andrew

So it's December again. For quite a few years now I've posted recommendations for recent BluRay/DVD releases, CDs and books that might prove useful for anyone wondering what to buy as gifts for Christmas; they appear to have been popular, so here we go again. (I myself find choosing presents enormously difficult, so I’m always … Continue reading Movies, Music and Books for Christmas… and Beyond

Posted in 2024, Best films, Best music, BluRay & DVD, books, CDs, Christmas gifts, classical music, contemporary music, film, gifts, JazzTagged Anja Lechner, Arve Henriksen, Bill Morrison, Carl Friedrich Abel, Colm Tóibín, Crime serials, Elizabeth Strout, Felix Mendelssohn, Freya Waley-Cohen, Frode Haltli, George Benjamin, Harmen Fraanje, Igor Levit, James Ehnes, JS Bach, Laura Cumming, Louis Feuillade, Love Me Tonight, Mike Westbrook, Ohad Talmor, Ornette Coleman, Rouben Mamoulian, Sibelius, The Village Detective, Tobias Hume, Tom Coult, Trygve Seim1 Comment

Four Recommendations for the London Film Festival

Posted on October 9, 2024October 10, 2024 by Geoff Andrew

No longer a programme advisor to the BFI London Film Festival, I haven’t yet seen many movies in this year’s edition (now underway and continuing until Sunday 20th October), but there are a few films I've already caught which I feel I should recommend. I’m sure there are others well worth investigating (I myself am … Continue reading Four Recommendations for the London Film Festival

Posted in 2024, Best films, documentary, film, London Film Festival, top filmsTagged At Averroès & Rosa Parks, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, I’m Still Here, Nicolas Philibert, Quay Brothers, Raoul Peck, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Walter SallesLeave a comment

Thoughts and ideas on a variety of subjects and experiences by Geoff Andrew, film critic, programmer and lecturer with an interest in other art forms - and life...