Part of our job at QUAD is to bring the best of world cinema to Derby. Normally audiences are smaller than for mainstream blockbusters for obvious reasons. But mainstream audiences are missing a trick. If seat of the pants, visceral thrills are what cinema audiences want then they are there in world cinema. Take my two favourite films of the year and “The Good the Bad & the Weird” and “Flame & Citron” one a Korean western, the other a WWII movie of spies and hitmen and betrayal. Each had more tension excitement than probably the best block buster of the year Star Trek. So who’s missing out? Is reading sub titles that much of a deterrent to watching great films?
Keith Jeffrey