Jason Solomons
23 September 2021
French film introduces the urban spaceman
From France comes a giant leap in tales about life on housing estates.
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Arte: a channel for Europe in the UK
The UK arrival of a European broadcasting and filmmaking powerhouse should be welcomed with open arms
Read the full article09 September 2021
The Big Picture: A tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo
It's impossible to think of European cinema without Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Film comes back to life at the Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival brings the return of huge movies... but JASON SOLOMONS prefers European masters and a Soho surprise
Read the full article27 July 2021
Whatever happened to Death In Venice’s Bjorn Andresen?
Death In Venice made him one of the most recognisable faces on the planet. "That was when the madness started," says Bjorn Andresen today
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Canned Heat: How the film festival returned with flesh and sex
The film festival defies the pandemic with plenty of touching, flesh and sex
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02 July 2021
The 50 greatest European films
Some surprise choices - and some usual suspects missing - as JASON SOLOMONS selects the 50 greatest European movies
Read the full article29 June 2021
Another Round: Cheers and tears in Mads Mikkelsen booze drama
Mads Mikkelsen's drinking comedy Another Round is set for a Hollywood remake after winning the Oscar for Best International Film
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12 June 2021
The channel between us: After Love’s journey through Dover and Calais
16 March 2021
The documentary that made me realise I was wrong about Woody Allen
02 March 2021
The politics of Pele: How he stayed aloof of his country’s dictatorship
19 March 2020
New film tells the story of Marie Curie and the elements she discovered
07 February 2020
How a little-known reporter exposed one of Stalin’s biggest scandals
25 January 2020
The Windermere children who escaped the holocaust in the lake district
11 September 2019
Roman Polanski provides the controversy at a topical Venice film festival
12 August 2019
Bedfordshire, Brexit and Bruce Springsteen: This summer’s feelgood hit
