Cee Jaye examines Richard Linklater’s Oscar-nominated film Boyhood, and the director’s continuing examination of time. Continue Reading The Point of Everything: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
Rural Ireland seen through its sounds and its silence in Pat Collins’ enigmatic film about a sound recordist’s travels in his native home. Continue Reading Feature Film: Silence
Umut Dag, director of this week’s feature film review, Kuma, talks to us about his compelling new drama. Continue Reading Interview: Umut Dag
Umut Dag’s feature debut is a low-key drama that focuses on the women of a Turkish-Austrian family after the arrival of the patriarch’s second wife. Continue Reading Feature ...
The latest from the legendary Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli returns to the theme of nostalgia in Goro Miyazaki’s beautiful and tender story of a girl caught between her past ...
Blending humour, melancholy and sharp insight into complex relationships, Noam Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s collaboration is a wonderfully uplifting tale that is as beautifully shot as it is acted. ...
If you’ve been a practising Luddite for the last five years, We Steal Secrets is a relatively harmless way to catch up on one of the most important events to ...
Christo Hall on Werner Herzog’s re-imagining of the German legend of a boy raised in a cellar, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, re-released and showing in London cinemas this month. ...
Pedro Almodovar’s latest offering, his “most political film yet”, is a gaudy, farcical satire on modern Spain — but does it sound much cleverer than it actually is? Bella Whittington ...
There’s a certain trepidation involved when going to see a sequel, particularly the third in a series. Will it be an Empire Strikes Back or, heaven help us, a Phantom ...
The opening sequence of Danny Boyle’s Trance is by far the most entertaining in the film. Here we are introduced to Simon (James McAvoy), a slick but otherwise unsuspecting, ...
It was never going to be easy. A critically acclaimed novel with a complex Russian doll structure that links characters as far ranging as a nineteenth-century abolitionist and a futuristic ...
Although Paul Dano delivers a committed performance in For Ellen, his character is not quite believable. The rock-and-roller image – with chipped black nail polish, slicked back hair and leather ...
Our environment has more of an impact upon our decisions and daily lives than we may at first realise. Our regular interactions, chance meetings and new acquaintances can either help ...
A much-underrated director and supreme stylist, Max Ophuls is having a renaissance with a series at the British Film Institute this February that should not be missed. His films, spanning the ...
The Everyman Cinemas are a chain of boutique independent theatres owned by the Everyman Media Group. They are based in the most exclusive suburbs of north and north-west London: Hampstead, ...
Outside Leicester Square tube station tourists were tramping down Charing Cross Road as usual, and all the snow turned instantly to mush. I slid down Little Newport Street, where polite ...
Basing a film on real-life events always leaves it open to charges of inaccuracy, insensitivity and imbalance, especially when that event is the 2004 tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands ...
The film is a visual and musical epic, a feast for the senses that does the stage show proud. The only negative thing that might be said about the film’s ...
It strikes me that the film, Cotton for my Shroud, has an ominous title with various connotations. The word “shroud” refers to a cloth used to wrap a body for ...
