The Cameraman's Revenge

Five young prodigies assaulted in New York's Central Park plot the perfect revenge.

Before he became a sensation with the twisty revenge story Memento, Christopher Nolan fashioned this low-budget, 16 mm black-and-white neonoir with comparable precision and cunning. Providing irrefutable evidence of Nolan’s directorial bravura, Following is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for when one of his unwitting subjects leads him down a dark criminal path. With gritty aesthetics and a made-on-the-fly vibe (many shots were simply stolen on the streets, unbeknownst to passersby), Following is a mind- bending psychological journey that shows the remarkable beginnings of one of today’s most acclaimed filmmakers.

"Hiroku kaibyoden" opens in 1729. Lord Tangonokami Nabeshime (Koichi Uenoyama) of Saga Prefecture takes a fancy to a blind monk's sister, Sayo (Mitsuya Kamei). Monk Matashichiro (Akihisa Toda) refuses to bow to Lord Nabeshime's lecherous interest in Sayo. The lord and chamberlain ultimately kill the monk during their regular game of Go. Sayo, ordered to leave Saga the next morning, commits suicide by cutting open her stomach, asking the cat Tama to lap her blood as she dies so that the cat can gain supernatural powers and curse the castle…

Science is redefining our understanding of plant intelligence and their fight for dominance. Chemical weapons, optical illusions and booby traps are tools of survival developed through evolution and some now believe they include perception and memory.

Matthew Collings reappraises Impressionism by examining the lives and works of Courbet, Manet, Cezanne and Monet.
Art aficionados are notoriously sniffy about the Impressionists. The work of Monet and his contemporaries has for so long adorned coasters, calendars, T-shirts and tea towels that it is increasingly hard to see them as serious artists. In Channel 4's Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice, though, the art critic and presenter Matthew Collings sets out to re-establish the Impressionists' reputation as revolutionary artists whose paintings sent shock- waves through the art world.

Putin's Revenge is a riveting investigation of how the U.S. struggled to confront Vladimir Putin over Russian involvement in the 2016 election, how revenge may have motivated Putin to target American democracy, and the U.S. responses under Presidents Obama and Trump.