Jamie Lang After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-COVID theatrical distribution.As bolts of lightning reanimated the body of Frankenstein’s monster, Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” which turned heads when it took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner “Nanny,” a supernatural tale from director Nikyatu Jusu, have revitalized the festival scene.While “Nanny” may have been the jewel in the genre crown at Sundance, the influence that genre cinema held over 2022’s first major festival was wide-ranging and undeniable. Chloe Okuno’s psychological thriller “Watcher” impressed — segueing into several sales deals — as did Hanna Bergholm’s psycho-horror feature “Hatching,” sold by Wild Bunch and Charades-sold Spanish standout “Piggy,” the follow-up to Carlota Pereda’s 2019 Spanish Academy Award-winner “Cerdita.” Among genre titles at Berlin this year are Dario Argento’s serial killer thriller “Dark Glasses” in the Berlinale Special section, while Bertrand Bonello’s subconscious voyage “Coma” and Peter Strickland’s gory “Flux Gourmet” (pictured above) feature in Encounters.
Northern rail services could be cut FURTHER next year ‘in post-Covid managed decline’
26.01.2022 - 17:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Rail services across the North could be cut even further from Spring 2023, despite ‘levelling up' promises and passenger numbers bouncing back faster than the national average.
A paper tabled to northern leaders reveals that the latest Treasury funding package for operators could soon lead to some ‘hard choices’, meaning ‘it isn’t clear that there will be sufficient funding to continue to support all services included in next year’s plan’.
Any cuts from 2023 would come on top of a reduced timetable already planned from next December due to chronic capacity constraints through Castlefield.
READ MORE: North’s own rail plan would have meant faster journeys and more trains, admits government - but it was too expensive
Andy Burnham called the threatened cut ‘fundamentally unacceptable’, while politicians in Liverpool, Warrington, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire all expressed similar concerns, warning the move amounted to the ‘managed decline’ of the northern network post-pandemic.
There are also fears that the reduction in funding could lead to the loss of guards on trains or staff on stations.
The paper, drawn up by officials at Transport for the North and tabled to leaders at their latest meeting, says the indicative funding provided in autumn’s spending review means operators are now required to make ‘substantial savings to their costs’.
Nationally, services for future years are being drawn up on the basis of the timetable that was operating last month, it says - at which point services were only at around 85pc of pre-Covid levels in the North.
However rail companies have been seeking to incrementally return services, including a Northern service between Hull and Bridlington and a direct Transpennine Express service
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