Michael Fassbender is at his leg-tapping best in Steve McQueen’s Shame, a tale of lonely frustration, sexual addiction and grim redemption. Shame Sinnerman by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers While Hunger wasn’t so much about the hollow, echoing sensation of life without food as its political and cultural significance in Northern Ireland and beyond, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'London Film Festival'
Film Review: Shame (2011)
January 16th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: 2011 · Carey Mulligan · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Hunger · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Michael Fassbender · Reviews · Shame · Steve McQueen · Wilshin
Film Review: Mysteries Of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
January 3rd, 2012 1 Comment
Prolific Franco-Chilean director, Raúl Ruiz’s penultimate film, Mysteries of Lisbon, is a labyrinthine, pan-European, Proustian epic that twists and turns across the generations. Mysteries of Lisbon The Art of Memory by Laura Bennett His final fully-complete film finished not long before his death, aged 70, in August 2011, Mysteries of Lisbon is Ruiz’s swansong and crowns a supremely [...]
Tags: 2010 · Camilo Castelo Branco · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Laura Bennett · London Film Festival · Mistérios de Lisboa · Mysteries Of Lisbon · Portugal · Proust · Raúl Ruiz · Reviews · Time Regained
Film Review: The Artist / L’Artiste (2011)
December 29th, 2011 No Comments
With dazzling performances from Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo, Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist is a vibrant homage to silent films and the talkies’ falling stars. The Artist Modern Talking by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers There’s no getting round it, The Artist is a silent movie. And as we enter the third age of 3D, [...]
Tags: 2011 · Audrey Hepburn · Bérénice Bejo · Bernard Herrmann · Breakfast At Tiffany's · cinema · Citizen Kane · dogandwolf · Douglas Sirk · film · film review · France · Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Jean Dujardin · Kelly Reichardt · L'Artiste · Las Acacias · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Meek's Cutoff · Michel Hazanavicius · Pablo Giorgelli · Reviews · Sylvain Chomet · The Artist · The Illusionist · Vertigo · Wilshin
Film Review: Las Acacias (2011)
December 7th, 2011 No Comments
A slowly elegant meditation on intimacy and friendship, Pablo Giorgelli’s Las Acacias will have you screaming from the back seat with glee,”Are we nearly there yet?” Las Acacias Rolling Family by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers The South American road movie follows its own path. Unlike its counterpart north of the border, it’s down [...]
Tags: 2011 · Argentina · Bombón El Perro · Carlos Sorín · cinema · dogandwolf · Familia Rodante · film · film review · Historias Mínimas · Jack Kerouac · Kelly Reichardt · Las Acacias · London Film Festival · Lucrecia Martel · Mark Wilshin · Old Joy · On The Road · Pablo Giorgelli · Pablo Trapero · Reviews · The Headless Woman · The Motorcycle Diaries · Walter Salles · Wilshin
Film Review: We Have A Pope / Habemus Papam (2011)
December 2nd, 2011 No Comments
Our man in the Vatican, Nanni Moretti’s We Have A Pope delights both in the vibrant ritual of the papal conclave and rattling its cardinals’ chasubles. We Have A Pope The Vatican Cellars by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers While the recent history of the Holy See may have been blighted by silence on [...]
Tags: 2011 · Aprile · Caravaggio · Chekhov · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Habemus Papam · Il Caimano · Italy · Jerzy Stuhr · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Michel Piccoli · Nanni Moretti · Reviews · The Seagull · The Son's Room · We Have A Pope · Wilshin
Film Review: Take Shelter (2011)
November 30th, 2011 No Comments
With thunderous performances by Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter is a mind blowing twister of mental illness, austerity America and the apocalypse. Take Shelter A Mighty Storm by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers A storm is coming. Or is it? A storm is coming. Or is it a dream? You might have [...]
Tags: 2011 · Adam Stone · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Jeff Nichols · Jessica Chastain · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Michael Shannon · Reviews · Take Shelter · USA · Wilshin
Film Review: The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
November 25th, 2011 No Comments
With a career redefining performance from Rachel Weisz, Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea is a tour de force of classic filmmaking and nostalgia. The Deep Blue Sea When A Dream Appears by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers It’s hard when adapting a play for the big screen to entirely efface its theatrical roots. [...]
Tags: 2011 · cinema · dogandwolf · Douglas Sirk · film · film review · gay · George Cukor · Hitchcock · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Queer Cinema · Rachel Weisz · Reviews · Simon Russell Beale · Terence Davies · Terence Rattigan · The Deep Blue Sea · Tom Hiddleston · UK · Wilshin
Film Review: Wuthering Heights (2011)
November 11th, 2011 No Comments
“Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy come home,” Andrea Arnold drops the high drama of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights in return for an opulence of visual treats. Wuthering Heights The Wiley, Windy Moors by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers It’s not unusual for film adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, and God knows there have been enough, to suffer sudden [...]
Tags: 2011 · Andrea Arnold · cinema · dogandwolf · Emily Brontë · film · film review · Fish Tank · James Howson · Juliette Binoche · Kate Bush · Laurence Olivier · London Film Festival · Luis Buñuel · Mark Wilshin · Merle Oberon · Peter Kosminsky · Ralph Fiennes · Red Road · Reviews · Robbie Ryan · Solomon Glave · UK · William Wyler · Wilshin · Wuthering Heights
Film Review: Oslo, August 31st (2011)
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
Revisiting Louis Malle’s Le Feu Follet and the existential malaise, Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st casts a beautiful eye over the death of summer. Oslo, August 31st Living In Oblivion by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers You might question the wisdom of a young Norwegian director updating Louis Malle’s 1963 classic Le Feu Follet [...]
Tags: 2011 · Abbas Kiarostami · Albert Camus · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Gus Van Sant · Joachim Trier · Last Days · Le Feu Follet · London Film Festival · Louis Malle · Mark Wilshin · Norway · Oslo August 31st · Pierre Drieu La Rochelle · Reviews · Sofia Coppola · Taste Of Cherry · The Myth Of Sisyphus · The Virgin Suicides · Wilshin
Film Review: Weekend (2011)
November 4th, 2011 No Comments
A Nottingham-set gay love story, Andrew Haigh’s Weekend is love in the real lane – tender, confusing and painful. It’s funny, but it ain’t no hom-com. Weekend Straight Story by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers. The title may recall Godard’s 1970 car-crash spectacular, but it’s another JLG film that Weekend reminds me of. And [...]
Tags: 2011 · A Bout De Souffle · Andrew Haigh · Chris New · Christophe Honoré · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · gay · Jean Seberg · Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Paul Belmondo · London Film Festival · Man At Bath · Mark Wilshin · Martial Solal · Notting Hill · Queer Cinema · Reviews · UK · Weekend · Wilshin
Film Review: Beloved / Les Bien-Aimés (2011)
Film Review: Elles (2011)
Film Review: This Must Be The Place (2011)
Film Review: Headhunter / Hodejegerne
Film Festival: The 26th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2012
Film Review: Wild Bill (2011)
Film Review: Tiny Furniture (2010)
Film Review: Babycall (2011)
Film Review: The Kid With A Bike / Le Gamin Au Vélo (2011)
Film Review: Once Upon A Time In Anatolia / Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (2011)