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On Tuesday 4 February 2025, BBC One broadcasts The Repair Shop: On the Road!

Devon – Emergency Surgery for Daisy the Cow Season 1 Episode 3 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Repair Shop: On the Road,” titled “Devon – Emergency Surgery for Daisy the Cow,” promises to be a delightful watch for fans of the show. Set to air on BBC One, this episode features the team tackling one of their most unusual projects yet—a giant fibreglass cow lantern named Daisy. The quirky nature of the task is sure to bring a smile as the team works together to restore this unique piece.

In addition to the cow lantern, luthier Julyan will be showcasing his skills by bringing a banjulele back to life. This charming instrument, a blend of a banjo and a ukulele, has its own story and character, and Julyan’s expertise will shine through as he carefully repairs it. Viewers...

In the upcoming episode of “The Repair Shop: On the Road,” titled “Devon – Emergency Surgery for Daisy the Cow,” the team takes on a unique challenge that promises to entertain and surprise. Set to air on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 5:30 Pm on BBC One, this episode features a quirky giant fibreglass cow lantern that needs some serious TLC. The team’s creativity and skills will be put to the test as they work to restore this unusual piece.

In addition to the cow lantern, luthier Julyan will be busy bringing a banjulele back to life. This charming instrument has its own story, and viewers can expect to see the careful process of repair and restoration. Julyan’s expertise will shine as he breathes new life into this musical treasure.

Meanwhile, Dom will be learning the art of brilliant cutting, adding another layer of excitement to the episode. His crash course...

Quite unsurprisingly, Dandadan continues to capture the hearts of the fans with each of its increasingly exciting episodes. One major reason behind its success is the hilarious and unpredictable presence of Turbo Granny, one of the fan-favorite characters whose antics have stolen the show. Through the thrilling conclusion of the first arc, Turbo Granny’s consciousness shockingly transferred into a Maneki Neko (Japan’s iconic Lucky Fortune Cat Toy).

A still from Dandadan | Credits: Science Saru

Now this may immediately bring to mind Bleach’s Kon, who also lives in a similar stuffed animal. Here it seems like Yukinobu Tatsu has managed to do things right where Tite Kubo’s approach went wrong. With the introduction of this character, Dandadan managed to take the series to great heights of comedic excellence. But how exactly?

Kon Was Nothing More Than Just an Annoying Being Throughout The Bleach Anime Kon from Bleach...

Girls Band Cry impresses fans with deep character dynamics and an amazing soundtrack, earning recognition and popularity. The anime stands out with its use of CGI, creating natural and fluid character animations that enhance the story. Despite being licensed only in France, Girls Band Cry gains a following, breaking into top rankings on Amazon Japan and MyAnimeList.

Toei Animation Studio, best known for franchises like Dragon Ball and One Piece, recently released Girls Band Cry, an original anime that uses the formula of the musical band that made world hits like K-on and Bocchi the Rock. Girls Band Cry, a music anime where a group of girls with troubled pasts form a band motivated by their joint passion for music, has pleasantly surprised fans with the use of CGI, an animation technique that generally faces rejection from viewers.

Girls Band Cry has fallen under the radar of Western fans since...

Critically acclaimed anime director Naoko Yamada, whose filmography includes the Sound! Euphonium series, Clannad, and K-On!, has us excited for her next work, which is set to come out this year. Kimi no Iro (Your Color) was initially set to be released in 2023, but the title has been delayed to 2024. Now, with the release of the film’s first trailer, we have also confirmed the premiere date for the movie, which is going to be August 30, 2024.

Kimi no Iro‘s fall 2023-to-summer 2024 delay upset some fans, but the movie is now on track to release in several months’ time, so fans can rejoice. The movie will follow high school student Totsuko, who has the ability to perceive the emotions of other people as colors. Because of this ability, she has to tread very lightly and tell white lies to other people to avoid darkening their colors, which is important to her.

Hiroko Utsumi broke gender norms in anime, becoming a recognized director in a male-dominated genre like action and sports. From Free! to Bucchigiri?!, Utsumi's anime feature attractive, delinquent male characters exploring various facets of masculinity. Utsumi's work challenges stereotypes by showcasing a range of male characters with complex relationships and emotional depth, set in thrilling narratives.

In early January, Mappa’s winter anime’s first episode aired, presumably raising a few eyebrows in its wake. Bucchigiri?!, now on its sixth episode, is a whirlwind of action, color, punches, and screams, with a comedy style that seems to hint at much older series. Its characters – mostly male – are outlandish, over-the-top delinquent types that wouldn’t be out of place in Tokyo Revengers if the latter had any self-irony. Indeed, Bucchigiri?! is dominated by masculinity in all its forms – most of them pretty toxic – and its protagonist's dream is to lose his virginity.

Anime that focus on music have the ability to showcase themes of friendship and self-belief, featuring diverse music genres. Series like Your Lie In April and Given portray musicians' personal growth and joy of creating music. K-On!, Nana, and Blue Giant depict the journey of bands overcoming challenges and growing together.

The best anime about making music not only entertain with thrilling performances, but exemplify many of the most beloved themes in anime. The power of friendship, belief in oneself, and, of course, excellent soundtracks reign supreme in these shows. It's a combination of talent and teamwork that propels musicians to the big time.

Music anime spans all genres. From rock to jazz to classical, every style is appreciated and given its moment in the spotlight. Each climactic performance is a triumph of both musical talent and personal development, and depicts the pure joy of what it is to make a beautiful sound.

Starting with a packed house on the night of October 13 and concluding right after Thanksgiving, MoMA showcased “Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979,” the largest retrospective of Iranian cinema ever held inside or outside of Iran. With close to 70 films covering the pre-revolutionary period, there were works from Iran’s most famous filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami; the most famous film of this era, the late Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow; and repertory favorites like Ebrahim Golestan’s Brick and Mirror, Bahram Beyzaie’s Downpour and Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black. But, significantly, there were also films by lesser-known but just as vital […]

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Starting with a packed house on the night of October 13 and concluding right after Thanksgiving, MoMA showcased “Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979,” the largest retrospective of Iranian cinema ever held inside or outside of Iran. With close to 70 films covering the pre-revolutionary period, there were works from Iran’s most famous filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami; the most famous film of this era, the late Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow; and repertory favorites like Ebrahim Golestan’s Brick and Mirror, Bahram Beyzaie’s Downpour and Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black. But, significantly, there were also films by lesser-known but just as vital […]

The post “The Grandest Orphan Cinema”: Ehsan Khoshbakht on MoMA’s “Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979” Series first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe’re thrilled to introduce Notebook’s email newsletter, the Weekly Edit: a mix of our latest essays, interviews, and festival coverage, with a few archival gems to boot. Learn more and sign up here.REMEMBERINGThe Cow.This weekend brought devastating news that Dariush Mehrjui, the landmark Iranian filmmaker, and his wife and screenwriting partner Vahideh Mohammadifar were found murdered in their home. A lifelong enemy of state censorship, Mehrjui helped kick off the Iranian New Wave with his second feature, The Cow (1969), which was denied an export permit when it was originally completed. “Despite the fact that the film was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Arts, the Pahlavi regime preferred not to have the film’s portrayal of rural Iranian village life color the nation’s desired image of modernity on the world stage,...

Mehrjui’s 1969 film The Cow is considered one of the most important films of the Iranian New Wave of the 1960s and 70s.

Director Dariush Mehrjui, one of the most prominent members of Iran’s New Wave movement, has been stabbed to death alongside his wife at their home outside Tehran.

According to the local news agency Irna, Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadifar, a screenwriter and costume designer, were discovered with knife wounds to their necks by his daughter Mona Mehrjui.

Local reports said four people have been connected to the crime, although no motive has been indicated. Mohammadifar recently posted...

Iran’s most prominent filmmakers Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were found dead. The 83-year-old and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar were found with stab injuries in their home near the capital, Tehran, on Saturday evening, Iranian authorities say, reports bbc.com.

Mehrjui was considered as one of the founders of Iranian new wave cinema. Four people have been identified in connection to the deaths, according to local media reports.

According to chief justice Hossein Fazeli, Mehrjui had invited his daughter to come over to his home in the city of Karaj for dinner on Saturday night.

As she arrived, she is said to have found the bodies of her parents. Mohammadifar, a screenwriter and costume designer, had reportedly complained recently that she had been threatened and that the house had been burgled.

Iranian actor and director Houman Seyedi was among those who took to social media to react to the...

Iran’s most prominent filmmakers Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were found dead. The 83-year-old and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar were found with stab injuries in their home near the capital, Tehran, on Saturday evening, Iranian authorities say, reports bbc.com.

Mehrjui was considered as one of the founders of Iranian new wave cinema. Four people have been identified in connection to the deaths, according to local media reports.

According to chief justice Hossein Fazeli, Mehrjui had invited his daughter to come over to his home in the city of Karaj for dinner on Saturday night.

As she arrived, she is said to have found the bodies of her parents. Mohammadifar, a screenwriter and costume designer, had reportedly complained recently that she had been threatened and that the house had been burgled.

Iranian actor and director Houman Seyedi was among those who took to social media to react to the...

Dariush Mehrjui, the pioneering Iranian director behind films such as “The Cow” and “The Pear Tree,” has reportedly been murdered at the age of 83. The news was broken by Iranian state media outlet Irna, which indicated that Mehrjui and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar were discovered at their home with neck wounds indicating that they had been stabbed to death.

Born in Iran in 1939, Mehrjui rose to prominence in the 1960s as a leading contributor to the Iranian New Wave filmmaking movement. His 1969 film “The Cow,” which depicts an Iranian man’s alienation from society when the pregnant cow that serves as his sole possession is killed, became an international sensation after screening at the Venice International Film Festival. He remained a beloved presence on the international festival circuit throughout his life, earning acclaim for films such as 1998’s “The Pear Tree” and 2002’s “To Stay Alive.” His naturalistic films offered nuanced depictions of human discontent,...

Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife have been found dead in their home in Karaj, Iran, The New York Times reported Sunday.

Their bodies were found Saturday night by their daughter Mona, and Mehrjui’s assistant Hanif Soroori told the outlet their throats were cut and there were signs of forced entry.

Mehrjui, 83, was known as one of the forefathers of new-wave cinema in Iran. His wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, was a screenwriter and costume designer.

In an interview with the Iranian student news agency Isna, the Alborz police chief Hamid Hadavand said a possible motive is currently unknown.

Before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Mehrjui filmed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini while he was in exile in France. His work after the revolution explored themes like art, money, religion and marriage.

Upon his return to Iran in 1985, Mehrjui spoke about battling censorship in the country. In the book “Dariush Mehrjui, Critique of...

Famed Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui (The Cow, The Pear Tree) was murdered, along with his wife, in a stabbing attack by an unknown assailant at their home in Iran, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

The official Irna news agency quoted Hossein Fazeli, a judiciary official, as saying that Mehrjhi and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered dead at their home with knife wounds in their necks. Fazeli said the bodies were discovered by the director’s daughter, Mona Mehrjui, at the couple’s home in a suburb outside the Iranian capital Tehran.

Mehrjui, 83, was best known for his neo-realistic films from the early 1970s that helped launch a new wave of Iranian cinema. He was a favorite on the international festival scene since The Cow, his second feature, won the Fipresci International Film Critics Award at the 1971 Venice Film Festival. Other honors included the Un Certain Regard award...

Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui, whose 1969 “The Cow” opened up a new era in Iranian filmmaking, and his wife have been found stabbed to death in their home outside Tehran, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday.

Iran’s official Irna news agency quoted judiciary official Hossein Fazeli as saying that Mehrjhi and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were found dead with knife wounds in their necks by the director’s daughter, Mona Mehrjui, when she went to visit her father Saturday night at their home home in a Tehran suburb.

The Irna report said the assailant was unknown but that authorities are investigating alleged knife threats to the victims made on social media in recent weeks.

Mehrjui , 83, attended the film program at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the early 1960s and during the early 1970s became known as co-founder of Iran’s new wave of social realism thanks to...

Fans of the celebrated Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui have woken to the shocking news of his murder at home by an unknown assailant. He was 83.

State media reported Sunday that Mehrjui and his wife Vehideh Mohammadifar were both stabbed to death inside their home in a suburb west of the country’s capital Tehran.

The Irna news agency reported that the director’s daughter Mona Mehrjui made the terrible discovery when she went to visit her father’s home on Saturday evening. Both victims were reportedly found with knife wounds in their necks. While the investigation is ongoing, it has emerged that Mohammadifar had complained on social media about a knife threat she had received in recent weeks.

Fans of Mehrjui’s work have been quick to express their sadness on social media and remember his work as a co-founder of Iran’s film new wave in the early 1970s.

Warning: Spoilers for Power Girl Special #1After years of feeling like an outsider, Power Girl has officially been welcomed into the inner circle of the Superman Family. With a new name, new powers, and a superhero family to back her up, Power Girl has never been stronger.

Power Girl reconciles and reconnects with practically the entire Superman Family in Power Girl Special #1's 'Dark Knight of the Soul' by Leah Williams, Marguerite Sauvage, Marissa Louise, and Becca Carey. After battling Johnny Sorrow - and her own insecurities - in the Astral Plane, Power Girl meets up with the Super-Family, from Kon-El to Supergirl to the new Super-Twins. She meets those she hasn't met yet and, when Superman joins the group, officially declares her wish to "be a part of what you're doing. Not apart."

Superman, of course, welcomes Power Girl with open arms, as does the rest of the family - especially Supergirl.

Viaplay’s next Norwegian original series “The Fortress” is currently shooting in Bergen with a cast including Tobias Santelmann (“Kon-Tiki”), Selome Emnetu (“Luka and the Magical Theater”) and British star Russell Tovey (“Years and Years”).

Directed by Cecilie Mosli and Mikkel Brænne Sandemose (“State of Happiness”), the ambitious eight-part dystopian drama is set in 2037 in Norway. The country has decided to build an enormous wall around its borders to isolate itself and its citizens from the rest of the world. When a deadly pandemic breaks out, the inhabitants soon realize that the wall intended to protect them is instead holding them prisoner.

The show was written by Linn-Jeanethe Kyed (“Bø”) and author John Kåre Råke (“The Quake”). It will launch on Viaplay in 2023.

“Cecilie has directed most of the scenes involving my character, and she is talented, generous and committed,” said Santelmann. “My experience is that both Mikkel and...

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Revered Indian actor and filmmaker Kamal Haasan (“Papanasam”) will return as the host of “Big Boss Ultimate,” a Tamil-language version of the “Big Brother” format. Five seasons of “Bigg Boss Tamil,” hosted by Haasan, were broadcast on Disney’s Star Vijay channel and streamed on Disney Plus Hotstar. “Bigg Boss Ultimate,” however, will be a streaming exclusive and will be available only on Disney Plus Hotstar from Jan. 30. The new season will reunite some of the most popular contestants of past “Bigg Boss Tamil” seasons, giving them another opportunity to claim the title. One of the innovations on “Bigg Boss Ultimate” will be a 24-hour feed, which will allow the audience to watch what’s happening in the Bigg Boss house throughout the day.

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Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Films India, the Indian local production arm of Sony Pictures International Productions, and Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International have teamed on an as-yet-untitled Tamil-language film,...

Onibaba

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1964/ 2.39:1/ 102 Minutes

Starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura

Directed by Kaneto Shindô

Kaneto Shindô’s Onibaba is a campfire tale not for the faint of heart. The director was just a child when he first heard the Buddhist fable about a bewitched matriarch, told to him by his own mother in lieu of a bedtime story. That evening, the child’s perception of the world, and the women in it, took on a new dimension. The movie Shindô made from those memories is unclassifiable—a Bergmanesque allegory filmed in a graceful yet spartan style with a healthy dose of Grand Guignol to mitigate its pretensions. Produced in 1964, the film is set in the medieval era just as civil war has leveled Kyoto, sending the populace scurrying to the hinterlands.

Shindô wrote the screenplay and he leaves it to one of his characters, a deserter named Hachi, to...

Exclusive: Winona Ryder is starring alongside Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr., Owen Teague and Brianne Tju in The Cow, a mystery thriller that marks the feature directing debut of Eli Horowitz, co-creator of Amazon’s anthology series Homecoming. Plot details are under wraps in the script co-penned by Horowitz and Matthew Derby. Production has just wrapped.

CAA Media Finance is repping U.S. sales on the pic, which is produced by Raphael Margules and Jd Lifshitz of BoulderLight Pictures with Shaun Sanghani of Sss Entertainment and Russ Posternak of Post Film. Anthony Eu of Singapore-based mm2 Asia is executive producer, and BoulderLight’s Tracy Rosenblum is co-producer.

It marks the latest in the team-up of BoulderLight Pictures and mm2; they previously produced the TIFF horror pic The Vigil and this year’s Sundance drama Wild Indian starring Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Eisenberg and Kate Bosworth. BoulderLight also was behind the genre hit Becky starring Kevin James.

Powered by its famed partners, Oslo-based Motion Blur, one of Norway’s top producers of commercials, features and TV shows, has never been that busy with projects both on home turf and in the U.S.

That activity in part rolls off the pulling power of the company’s pedigreed partners: “Karate Kid” helmer Harald Zwart; “Kon-Tiki” and “Pirates of the Caribbean-Dead Men Tell No Tales” co-helmer Espen Sandberg: and producer Espen Horn.

Minority shareholder Sf Studios lends Motion Blur adds financial stability. The genre-bending outfit also boasts a unique bond with Netflix that has translated into three Norwegian-language orders over the past year-and-a -half from the U.S. giant.

Helmed by rising talent Jarand Herdal, chiller “Cadaver,” Netflix’s first Norwegian feature, premiered last October. Motion Blur’s vampire comedy show “Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes” is launching on the giant streamer on Aug. 25. A third Netflix title,...

When we think of the term “auteur” or “auteur theory” we usually include directors such as Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick given the diversity in their work, the amount of creative control they had and the recurring themes in their features. Especially the latter is interesting because Kubrick has managed to leave his footprint in the world of film, even though he has only produced a small number of films, in comparison to Hitchcock that is. Given this definition, director Satoshi Kon, although he helmed even a smaller number of features, should deserve the title as well, especially since features like “Paprika” or “Perfect Blue” are considered masterpieces of the genre and remain influential sources for filmmakers all over the world. In his documentary “Satoshi Kon, The Illusionist” French director Pascal-Alex Vincent, who previously made “Miwa, A Japanese Icon” about actor Akihiro Miwa, tells the story of arguably one of...

Exclusive: Netflix is near a deal for Shout It Out Loud, a film package that aspires to do for the iconic hard rock band Kiss what Bohemian Rhapsody did for Queen.

According to sources, Netflix is tying up a deal after a bidding battle for a film that will be directed by Joachim Rønning, the Norwegian filmmaker whose credits include Kon-Tiki, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The script is written by Ole Sanders. An earlier draft was done by William Blake Herron. The pic will be a co-production of Mark Canton’s Atmosphere Entertainment and Universal Music Group.

Shout It Out Loud will have close cooperation from bandleaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. The band’s concert-arena anthems will be a big part of this, but the film will focus on that duo going back to when they were two...

Tatsu, a former high rank yakuza member decides to stay at home being the helpful and loving husband that he is to his career focused wife, Miku. Without letting aside his intense personality and ferocious manners, he takes care of every aspect of the household, from calibrating a “roomba” vacuum cleaner to recycling used bottles accordingly in the special boxes outside the supermarkets. By always being out and about around the block, we watch him coming across his former yakuza sidekicks or babysitting neighborhood children. Tatsu is committed and excited about the new turn of this life, but to the viewer, it seems that even the couple’s cat has more thrilling time than its humans.

“The Way of the Househusband” was a hit a lot earlier than its release. Chiaki’s Kon anime lands in the Netflix platform following a well-received seven volume manga from 2018 and a last year...

Ewan McGregor will play a World War II prisoner of war who hatches a plan to use a cow to help him escape captivity and find his way across Germany to freedom. Marc Forster will direct “The Cow,” which is a remake of classic French comedy “The Cow and I,” with shooting set to begin in the fall.

WestEnd Films has boarded the picture and will introduce it to international buyers in Cannes. North American sales are being handled by Linda Lichter.

The original version, known in French as “La Vache et le Prisonnier,” was based on a novel by Jacques Antoine and directed by Henri Verneuil. Starring Fernandel, the film was a big hit locally in the late 1950s.

The English-language remake reunites McGregor with Forster after their recent collaboration on the upcoming Disney picture “Christopher Robin,” which will be released in the summer. The pair also worked together on 2005 movie “Stay.