Because awards season is fully underway now, there is a steady stream of screenings to help voters catch up with contenders. It's not always clear how these are selected, as some great movies are routinely ignored during these months, while others get massive campaigns. So it's always great when smaller films get a bit of a push - and I love discovering these gems. One of the best of the year is Joachim Trier's drama
Sentimental Value, a stunner from Norway featuring another riveting performance from Renate Reinsve, plus Stellan Skarsgard in the role of his career as her filmmaker father. And from Argentina,
Belén has real power in its true story about women fighting for rights in a male-dominated society. Actor-filmmaker Dolores Fonzi and Camila Plaate (in the title role) are terrific in this moving, important film.
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More mainstream, the animated comedy
Stitch Head is a wonderfully cartoonish spin on
Frankenstein that's funny and engagingly sweet. The atmospheric horror
Shelby Oaks is creepy and gleefully gruesome, but never scary. And the bonkers Aussie animated romp
Lesbian Space Princess is smart, rude and delightfully ridiculous. I also saw a live performance of Akram Khan and Manal AlDowayan's
Thikra: Night of Remembering at Sadler's Wells. And I spent a day on the set of
MobLand, as it begins filming its second season, accompanied by cast members Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Froggatt, Anson Boon, Lara Pulver, Mandeep Dhillon and Teddie Allen.
Coming up this next week, I'll be watching Russell Crowe and Rami Malek in
Nuremburg, Glen Powell in
The Running Man, Jodie Foster in
A Private Life, Miles Teller in
Eternity, Andrea Riseborough in
Dragonfly, the French romance
Eden & Charlie, the British Museum doc
The Marbles, a gala screening of the short
Burn Your Gays, the interactive movie
The Run and a live performance of
Figures in Extinction.
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