There’s a lot to celebrate at this year’s London Film Festival – over 300 shorts and features with some gems from some of cinema’s contemporary masters as well as some fantastic debut features from emerging talent across the globe. There’s a few jolts along the way to bring us back down to gloomy earth – [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Michael Winterbottom'
Film Review: A Separation (2011)
July 11th, 2011 No Comments
Following its own merciless and tragic logic, Asghar Farhadi’s divorce parable A Separation is deceptively straightforward, exposing the loss of humanity beyond bitter recriminations.
A Separation
Scenes From A Marriage by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Berlin doesn’t have the razzle-dazzle red-carpet sunshine of Cannes, but it is consistently good at picking great Golden Bears. While we may [...]
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Film Review: 127 Hours (2010)
January 5th, 2011 No Comments
Audiences are bound to be divided over Danny Boyle’s flashy visuals, but James Franco goes all out on a limb to ground the supersonic 127 Hours with a bit of gravitas.
127 Hours
Rock Me More And More by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Nobody’s ever accused Danny Boyle of being minimalist. And after the rococo flourishes [...]
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Film Review: The Killer Inside Me (2010)
June 3rd, 2010 No Comments
Violent and misogynistic, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me adapts Jim Thompson’s noir novel to expose ’50s America’s darker side. It’s pulp friction.
The Killer Inside Me
In The Mood For Killing by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
From its Eames-style geometric opening titles, there’s a patina of Bakelite and melamine that seeps through Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside [...]
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Film Review: Storm / Sturm (2009)
March 23rd, 2010 No Comments
Storm
Unpicking the wheels of justice at The Hague’s International Criminal Court, Hans-Christian Schmid’s Sturm is a very European thriller. And it’s kicking up a storm.
Welcome Back To Sarajevo by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
With Kerry Fox, Stephen Dillane and the Yugoslav conflict at the heart of this judicial thriller, Sturm is a kind of mash-up [...]
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Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Film Review: Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
Film Review: The Nine Muses (2010)
Film Review: Shame (2011)
Eleven in 2011
Film Review: Mysteries Of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
Film Review: The Artist / L'Artiste (2011)
Film Review: Las Acacias (2011)
Film Review: We Have A Pope / Habemus Papam (2011)
Film Review: Take Shelter (2011)