Set Fire To The Stars (2014)
★★★☆☆
A monochrome portrait of poet Dylan Thomas running amuck stateside, Andy Goddard’s Set Fire To The Stars runs high on character but low on emotion.
Europe
One Rogue Reporter (2014)
★★★☆☆
One ex-tabloid reporter’s entertaining and insightful satire of tabloid journalism’s ethics – or lack of them – through provocative Michael Moore-style stunts and set-ups, with clever use of archive footage.
Mr Turner (2014)
★★★★★
Mike Leigh’s dazzling biopic of one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial artists is a masterpiece which earned Timothy Spall the Best Actor award at Cannes.
Serena (2014)
★★★☆☆
Caught between whip-cracking lioness and jealous femme fatale, Susanne Bier’s Serena offers a muddled portrait of the fairer sex.
London Film Festival 2014: The Face Of An Angel
The Face Of An Angel by Mark Wilshin Fictionally based on the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith…
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London Film Festival 2014: Song Of The Sea
★★★★☆
Elegant, beautiful, magical and affecting, Tomm Moore’s Song Of The Sea is a touchstone for the continued importance of hand-drawn animation.
Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
★★★★☆
Based on an original idea by Wim Wenders, Cathedrals Of Culture is a portmanteau of six directors finding their own genius in architectural space.
London Film Festival 2014: In The Basement / Im Keller
In The Basement by Mark Wilshin Nothing makes Austria more terrifying than the films of Ulrich Seidl, and none more so than In The…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Wonders / Le Meraviglie
The Wonders by Mark Wilshin Following a farming family living on the brink of bankruptcy, Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders is a social realist study…
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London Film Festival 2014: Song From The Forest
Song From The Forest Structured around a liturgy rather than a dramaturgy, Michael Obert’s Song From The Forest is a contemplative study of an…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Cut
The Cut The move to Hollywood, or English-language filmmaking isn’t always easy, to which Michaël R. Roskam’s The Drop can testify. But despite a…
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London Film Festival 2014: Return To Ithaca / Retour à Ithaque
Return To Ithaca Centred round a reunion of a group of fifty-something friends in Havana, Laurent Cantet’s Return To Ithaca is an intensely moving…
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’71 (2014)
★★★★☆
With an explosive performance from Jack O’Connell, Yann Demange’s ’71 leads us through the backstreets of the Troubles, quite literally.
London Film Festival 2014: White God / Fehér Isten
White God Well, if you’re looking for something different, you can’t go wrong with Kornél Mundruczó’s genre-buster White God. Part a dystopic version of…
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