en Kermode Uncut Feed Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark is the UK's leading film critic. This twice-weekly video blog is the place where he airs his personal views on the things that most fire him up about cinema - and invites you to give your own opinions. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:06:05 +0000 Zend_Feed_Writer 2 (http://framework.zend.com) https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode Triers Of A Clown Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:06:05 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/32de3677-5183-3f56-8ec7-d113c29f5195 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/32de3677-5183-3f56-8ec7-d113c29f5195 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

Lars von Trier has issued a statement saying that he will never speak in public again after it was revealed that he may face prosecution for the comments he made at a press conference in Cannes this year. Is his threat real and should he really be prosecuted for what he said?

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]]> 0 The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:35:21 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/a9d8386c-f51e-3f2b-b5a4-0474f069d913 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/a9d8386c-f51e-3f2b-b5a4-0474f069d913 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

In this piece for the Culture Show I meet one of a dying breed - a projectionist - and also brave the local multiplex. Good? Bad? Let me know what you think of cineplexes.

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]]> 0 In the Realm of James Ferman Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/040879fa-569c-3895-b780-b41f23ca101b https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/040879fa-569c-3895-b780-b41f23ca101b Mark Kermode Mark Kermode An Oshima retrospective at the BFI recalls a revealing story about the true nature of film censorship in the UK, in this instance concerning the Japanese master's most famous and notorious masterpiece, Ai No Corrida AKA In the Realm of the Senses.

]]> 0 The Culture Show: Screening Room Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/2faaa7f7-74c5-3456-832f-f6299694166c https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/2faaa7f7-74c5-3456-832f-f6299694166c Mark Kermode Mark Kermode Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are in front of an audience once again to debate the merits of specific movie genres in their Screening Room. The schools have broken up for the summer and to mark the occasion Mark and Simon discuss great and disastrous school movies.

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]]> 0 The Culture Show: Screening Room Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/ca489aff-9dac-3285-ac8b-5ffa9afb883d https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/ca489aff-9dac-3285-ac8b-5ffa9afb883d Mark Kermode Mark Kermode Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo are in front of an audience once again to debate the merits of specific movie genres in their Screening Room. This time it is the turn of rock docs. Movies such as Gimme Shelter, Rattle And Hum and Anvil are given the Mayo and Kermode once-over.

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]]> 0 The Culture Show: Screening Room Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:59:45 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/fb6a1757-92e2-3360-9164-e0b34d0130d6 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/fb6a1757-92e2-3360-9164-e0b34d0130d6 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode

Film Club with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. This week the pair discuss the relative merits of musical biopics and whether such movies can ever live up to the majesty of the music.

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]]> 0 The Culture Show: Screening Room Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/16da98e2-73b3-356b-8942-3617e290b690 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/16da98e2-73b3-356b-8942-3617e290b690 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode Film Club with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. With school term finishing for summer, Kermode and Mayo discuss school movies.

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]]> 0 The Culture Show: Guillermo del Toro Interview Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/e0fbfeea-39b1-35c0-b4b3-f5f1d2ba5b6f https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/e0fbfeea-39b1-35c0-b4b3-f5f1d2ba5b6f Mark Kermode Mark Kermode In this exclusive web-only interview, the visionary director behind Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro, talks to Mark Kermode about the first of his trilogy of vampire novels, The Strain.

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]]> 0 Doctors at Large Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/462c2ae1-1118-3414-bcda-c35010e72be7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/462c2ae1-1118-3414-bcda-c35010e72be7 Mark Kermode Mark Kermode After years of bickering about movies on the radio, Doctor Simon Mayo has agreed to join me for a televisual feast of Wittertainment in the shape of 'The Screening Room'. Recorded for the Culture Show, this mini series will be appearing on your televisions and iPlayers next month. Here's a little behind the scenes preview.

]]> 0 The Culture Show: Take on Mark with the Anti-Kermode Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:57:01 +0000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/972dcf28-fe55-34dc-8cb0-1e478137550a https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/972dcf28-fe55-34dc-8cb0-1e478137550a Mark Kermode Mark Kermode This year, the Kermode Awards has a new category - the 'Anti-Kermode' Audience Award.
To win the title of Anti-Kermode 2009, just explain here (in no more than 100 words) why Mark was WRONG about a film, an actor, a director, or anything else film related.
The top Anti-Kermode will be announced at the Kermodes on Tuesday 17th February on The Culture Show, which will end with a clip of the film you disagree about. The more forthright the entry, the more chance you have!
Entries must be in by 5pm Monday 9th February 2009. Anything submitted to this blog after that cannot be considered.
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