Personal Shopper movie review: shadows of sorrow
Strange and melancholy, this genre-defying portrait of grief and loneliness puts Kristen Stewart’s onscreen persona of restive reluctance to very effective use.
Cannes Film Festival
#LFF2016: Spaceship, Divines, Lupe Under the Sun
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
#LFF2016: Ma’ Rosa, Pyromaniac, All This Panic
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
Sculpting Time: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky movie retrospective review: tragedy, trauma, and torment, Russian-style
A significant new retrospective of the legendary and hugely influential Russian filmmaker is a fresh opportunity to see some gorgeous films on a big screen.
from Facebook: no, it is not “the year of the woman” at Cannes
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from Facebook: where are the women at Cannes?
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Rams (Hrútar) movie review: brothers in farms
Exists on the spectrum between “fascinating and unclassifiably odd” and “could almost be a parody of an arthouse film except it’s too moving to be a joke.”
Run movie review: all the unrest of Ivory Coast, all in one man (FilmAfrica festival)
Prophecy and politics are intertwined in a realm where strange and beautiful imagery takes on dark meaning, and violence and male posturing rules all.
movies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival
LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it.
female gazing at: Masaharu Fukuyama
Masaharu Fukuyama is in the wonderful Like Father, Like Son, and every time he appeared onscreen, I found myself catching my breath, he’s that gorgeous.
