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Rust and Bone impressed me greatly when I first saw it in Cannes earlier this year (you can read my review here) and it has really stayed with me since. I powerfully emotional film Rust and Bone tells a tale of human interaction in a melodramatic but incredibly resonant way. I attended a roundtable with [...]
Zaytoun, directed by Eran Riklis, is a conceptually interesting film. Bringing to mind ‘buddy movie’ plotting the story focuses on an Israeli fighter pilot and a Palestinian boy who form a bond whilst on the run together across Lebanon. I was lucky enough to speak to Eran Riklis at the London Film Festival and he was both candid [...]
The capital has been the home of some of the biggest names and films in the industry over the past ten days, and with the festival finally coming to a close tomorrow, the results are in for the official competition categories. Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, David Yates, Sebastian Faulks, Olivia Colman, Kazuo Ishiguru, and [...]
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the subject of Room 237, a documentary that seeks to present a number of theories surrounding the film and its maker. Laid out like a visual essay Room 237 uses audio recordings of theorists and mixes them with footage from The Shining and a number of other films to explore the idea that the [...]
For many years Midnight’s Children, the Booker of Bookers and Salman Rushdie’s second-best known novel, stumbled uncertainly on the road to a cinematic adaptation. Through international storms and fatwa shaped holes in the world it was looking likely for a time that the promised land of a BBC mini-series would be journey’s end. Sadly permission [...]
Taking its name from the descriptor for a particular type of television programme, the name itself was already something of a misnomer before director Matteo Garrone got his hands on it, Reality tells the tale of a working class Neapolitan fishmonger who sees a chance for stardom and throws himself into making it happen. Opening [...]
Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington), two graffiti artists living in the Bronx area of New York City, find themselves outclassed and out-tagged by a rival gang from Queens. Desperate to exact revenge, Malcolm and Sofia hatch a plan to tag the Mets’ iconic Home Run Apple – a huge fibreglass apple that pops [...]
One of the most anticipated films in the London Film Festival line up this year is Argo, Ben Affleck’s third film as director. The film tells the true story of the attempt to rescue six American government workers who escape from their besieged embassy in Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Argo is a brilliantly tense [...]
Originally titled The Surrogate, The Sessions feels like something of an anomaly in the 21st century; a smart, humorous mainstream American film about sex that’s made for grown ups, not teenagers and adults suffering a chronic case of arrested development. Despite this rather refreshing starting point the film does disappointment somewhat in the degree to [...]
Every year the London Film Festival features countless deliberately paced, pensive dramas, which are very nicely shot, but during which very little happens. At the risk of being labelled a philistine, it seems only fair to confess that I, like almost every person who has ever entered a cinema, find these to be, at best [...]
When documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), he’s a bright and warm publishing lawyer. However, as the years pass and their relationship develops from one of occasional sex to one supposedly rooted in trust, Paul’s drug usage increases from mild stress relief to ripe addiction. Unwilling to lose hope [...]
We travel back in time for Mat Whitecross’ new film and the Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll director continues the musical theme in his film Spike Island, telling the story of a group of kids who travel to Spike Island, Cheshire for the now famous concert by The Stone Roses. The film is [...]
Recognisable leads plucked from successful U.S. Television series? Check. Female lead who spends the majority of the film suffering humiliation all in order to ‘grow’? Check. Female lead acting in an entirely clueless way about things that she would almost certainly easily comprehend? Check. Gay best friend who appears to have no life beyond the female lead? Check. Marriage scene [...]
The Hunt is screening at this year’s London Film Festival as part of their Debate strand and there’s plenty to talk about in Thomas Vinterberg’s excoriating tale of the life of a man crushed and trodden into the ground by rumours of impropriaty. Vinterberg called his film the ‘story of a modern-day witch-hunt’ and Mads [...]
Returning to the London Film Festival director Jacques Audiard brings with him a film which has garnered excellent reviews already on the festival circuit. Rust and Bone stars Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts in Audiard’s tale of two people finding each other through circumstance and tragedy. Schoenaerts has been highly praised for his role and [...]
Thought lost for eighty years Ernst Lubitsch’s silent epic The Loves of Pharaoh, originally released in 1922, is now playing as part of the wonderful ‘Treasures’ strand in this year’s London Film Festival. Compiled from multiple prints the film has undergone an impressive restoration by the Bundesarchiv, The Munich Film Museum and George Eastman House, [...]
Alina (Cristina Flutur) returns to the impoverished Romanian community of her childhood in the hope of reuniting with Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) and returning with her to Germany and a new life. Upon arrival though, Alina discovers that Voichita has set up a new life for herself in a remote monastery and replaced her love with [...]
Music biopics so often get it drastically wrong, from over enthusiastic hagiography to a complete lack of understanding of the subject of the film, the missteps often quickly mount up. Significant blunders in these films are far more common than redeeming qualities but, thankfully, Good Vibrations is one of the better ones. Focusing not on [...]
Based on The Boy in the Back Row by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, Francois Ozon’s latest is something of a return to form for the former enfant terrible and a deliciously witty story about storytelling. Weary literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) finds a diamond in the rough in Claude (Ernst Umhauer), who shows real flair [...]
An appalling and heinous crime occurred in 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three eight year-old boys were murdered and their bodies left in a creek bed, naked and hog-tied. The murder shook the local residents and the police force, everyone unable to comprehend how this happened and who could have done such a thing. Influenced [...]