For Sama (2019)
★★★★★
For Sama, a documentary about the last days of Aleppo filmed and directed by Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts, is the most moving film you’ll see this year.
★★★★★
BFI LFF 2019: Films in Competition
★★★★☆
This year’s BFI LFF 2019 selection spans the genres from gothic psychodrama and hallucinogenic thriller, to provocative period piece and taut social commentary.
Varda by Agnès (2019)
★★★★★
In Varda by Agnès, her last film, iconic film director and feminist Agnès Varda looks back on her ground-breaking, long career at the age of 90. of 90.
Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
★★★★★
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is Scorsese’s immersive film recreation of Dylan’s chaotic, 57-date musical caravan that toured the US and Canada in 1975.
Sunset (2018)
★★★★☆
Sunset (Napszállt) by László Nemes is must-see, tour de force, immersive filmmaking that captures a chaotic watershed in 20th century European history.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 4
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 4
Sorry We Missed You (2019)
★★★★☆
Sorry We Missed You is another powerful, moving and important film from Ken Loach and his longtime collaborator and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
Amazing Grace (2018)
★★★★★
The late, great Aretha Franklin raises the roof singing gospel in Sidney Pollack’s unmissable Amazing Grace 1972 documentary.
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
★★★★☆
Enter the unmissable Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at the Design Museum to see treasures from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive and experience new insights into his films.
Dr Strangelove (1964)
★★★★★
The Cold War classic Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is re-released in the Stanley Kubrick season prefaced with a new short documentary Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb.
72nd Cannes Film Festival 2019 lineup
★★★★☆
72nd Cannes Film Festival 2019 lineup
Ash is Purest White (2018)
★★★★★
The exquisite Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhang Ke, starring Tao Zhao in an extraordinary performance, follows the lives of its characters against the background of a rapidly transforming China.
Eighth Grade (2018)
★★★★★
The pressures and anxieties of a 14-year-old girl navigating eighth grade in the social media age are put under the microscope in writer/director Bo Burnham’s achingly observant little gem Eighth Grade.
Donbass (2018)
★★★★★
In Donbass Sergei Loznitsa’s anger at the war in eastern Ukraine pours out like red-hot lava in 13 episodes of a vicious cycle of dark comedy, absurdity, brutality and horror.