by jkylegregory | May 29, 2026 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Films with a Common Theme: Difficulty in Close Relationships The past week I happened to see three 2025 films that had in common the theme of pains and deficits in close relationships. Father Mother Brother Sister by Jim Jarmusch I missed Jim Jarmusch’s latest...
by jkylegregory | Mar 5, 2026 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Listening to Stories from Around the Globe Learning to engage with stories through film has been a major field of precious discovery for me in the past decades. It has given me more than one life. It has offered me a rich palette of human and cultural colors in...
by jkylegregory | Feb 12, 2026 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Exercises in Imagination The word that stays with me after the closure of our local Gothenburg film festival is imagination. I am once more impressed by the potential of film to stir and exercise the imagination. I have been allowed to think thoughts and explore...
by jkylegregory | Jan 15, 2026 | Articles, Film, Rinus
My Best Films of 2025 – from Rinus My Best Films of 2025 From 2019 onward I have shared with you my list of the best films of the past year. My list contains the films that I truly care about and have communicated something to me that I continue to carry with...
by jkylegregory | Dec 16, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
A Courageous Voice – Jafar Panahi Last week the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was handed a one-year prison sentence, and a travel ban in Iran. He was at that moment in New York to receive prizes for his latest film It Was Just an Accident. He commented that he planned...
by jkylegregory | Oct 31, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
When Fall Is Coming directed by François Ozon The French director François Ozon is a prolific filmmaker, who since his feature debut film Sitcom from 1988 has delivered one new film after another, almost one every year. And you can never be sure what topic or in which...
