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A periodic round up of interesting and notable books about film, including biographies, histories, critical assessments, and more. I have to confess from the off that, apart from Daniel Day-Lewis’ typically spellbinding performance (if that’s even the right word for what he does) and the meticulous detail and cinematography that made the film a [...]
The first part of my first ‘Reel Ink’ of 2013 is a bit of a catch up, as this instalment of the column features books which were all published in 2012. Reel Ink #2 Part 1 includes the autobiography of a member of a Hollywood dynasty, a look at the city of Los Angeles within [...]
Roman Polanski is as famous for the events of his tumultuous life as he is for his often brilliant, highly influential body of work. Born in Paris in 1933 to Polish parents who unfortunately returned to Poland in 1937, Polanski survived the Nazi extermination of the inhabitants of Krakow’s Jewish ghetto (although his mother died [...]
The second part of the first Reel Ink round-up of recent books on film includes the biography of a sometime Hollywood rebel, the history of a now forgotten British studio, a look at a film that remains one of the most controversial ever made in the UK, and a hugely compelling history of cinema by [...]
Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) is middle aged and divorced, and lives in a small village in Denmark where he works as a teaching assistant at the local kindergarten. He’s kindly and well regarded by all, but his gentle character is suffused with a streak of resigned sadness arising from loneliness and a bitter custody dispute with [...]
Reel Ink is a new, hopefully bi-monthly column in which I’ll review a wide selection of recent books about film, covering everything from more scholarly tomes to biographies, film histories and lighter, fan appreciation type publications and whatever else of interest catches my eye. The first column will be divided into two parts, as I’ve [...]
Finishing off our coverage of the 2012 Toronto Film Festival we have a number of short reviews from the rest of the films we saw at the festival. You can find our complete coverage of the festival right here. Call Girl (3.5/5) Call Girl is based on the true story of a scandal in the [...]
In a world that has been deprived of Stanley Kubrick’s unique vision since he left us with the whimper of Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, anything new about the great man is greeted with open arms by his vast legion of admirers and devotees, of which I am one; thus, when I saw that The [...]
The American gangster is an almost a Terminator-like figure in cinema and TV: he just keeps coming and coming, and seemingly will not stop. Audience fascination with these amoral figures – who live outside the law but within a rigid parallel culture with its own codes and rules of engagement – has been endlessly analysed [...]
Sightseers is a deliciously nasty, very funny black comedy about a Midlands couple who embark on a caravan holiday visiting mundane British tourist attractions which takes a detour into murder and doesn’t turn back. Tina lives with her mother Carol, a bitter harridan who blames Tina for the accidental death of their beloved dog and [...]
Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges is an undemanding but very entertaining shaggy dog black comedy that follows Colin Farrell’s alcoholic screenwriter’s attempts to write the titular screenplay. His difficulties in doing so are exacerbated by his messy personal life and his involvement with the peculiar Billy (Sam Rockwell) and the dognapping ring that he’s [...]
Those who were holding out hope that Terrence Malick might return to something resembling straightforward narrative filmmaking after the mysticism and patchwork storytelling of The Tree of Life will be disappointed with To The Wonder; the film uses the same impressionistic narrative style, but in doing so fails to elevate a very slight and often [...]
Harmony Korine has been polarising audiences from the time they were first introduced to his dark vision of American teenagers in his script for director Larry Clark’s acclaimed Kids (1995) . His latest offering Spring Breakers, a satirical mash-up of a ‘kids gone wild on spring break’ comedy and an urban gangsta crime drama, will [...]
While it’s sure to alienate some for its refusal to adhere to their expectations of narrative and characterisation, The Master is a timely depiction of the susceptibility of the rootless and disaffected to the imprecations of cult leaders cloaked in the rhetoric of pseudo-science. Much has been made of the resemblance of The Master’s ‘Cause’ [...]
Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines comes on like a crime drama but is really a melodrama at heart, an unsettling meditation on relationships between fathers and sons and the terrible legacy visited upon sons by the sins of their fathers. Carnival stunt rider Luke (Ryan Gosling) is visited after a performance in Schenectedy, [...]
Syd March is a ghostly looking salesman for an agency that sells biological material (viruses) obtained from celebrities. Syd sells these viruses to well heeled customers who crave a perverse physical connection with their idols: illness contracted from the celebrities they adore. The offices of Sid’s employer look like a cross between a high gloss media agency and a funeral home, with [...]
Argo is based on the true story of the 1980 rescue of six U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran who escaped capture by a militant mob by hiding in the Canadian Ambassor’s residence until a bizarre CIA plot managed to get them safely out of Iran. Ben Affleck’s third feature as director is a stylistically subdued homage to the ’70s era studio [...]
Franc Roddam has directed award-winning documentaries and dramas for British television and mini-series for US television, and is the founder and chairman of Ziji Publishing, whose roster includes the five million selling novel The Last Templar. He is best known however as the creator of the international television phenomenon ‘Masterchef’, which is shown in 150 [...]
I don’t believe in film censorship. I believe that adults (as legally defined) have an inalienable right to watch disturbing or challenging material if they choose to do so. I do however believe in a system of clear and simple film classification, which functions as a set of parental guidelines and as a means by [...]
Neil Maskell and Myanna Buring play married couple Jay and Shel, two of the three characters at the center of the acclaimed Kill List, whose seemingly conventional middle class existence hides the truth of just what it is that daddy does (or doesn’t do, the cause of much domestic strife) to pay the bills. I spoke with [...]
