Clash (Eshtebak) movie review: the view from inside social upheaval
Challenging and provocative, but the limitations it places on itself restrict the appreciation for anyone not already steeped in its culture and politics.
Cannes Film Festival
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.
#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.
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.
Blue Is the Warmest Color review (London Film Festival)
There’s nothing particularly surprising here. Not even the rather tediously obvious 15-minute all-nude lesbian fuckfest.
Doctor Who thing: amazing collection of behind-the-scenes photos from the classic series
I’ve never seen any of these before. Incredible.
