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…
Read MoreThe 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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Elegant, beautiful, magical and affecting, Tomm Moore’s Song Of The Sea is a touchstone for the continued importance of hand-drawn animation.
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Based on an original idea by Wim Wenders, Cathedrals Of Culture is a portmanteau of six directors finding their own genius in architectural space.
Mommy by Mark Wilshin Returning to the subject of his first film I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan’s Mommy describes the tempestuous relationship between…
Read MoreIn The Basement by Mark Wilshin Nothing makes Austria more terrifying than the films of Ulrich Seidl, and none more so than In The…
Read MoreThe Wonders by Mark Wilshin Following a farming family living on the brink of bankruptcy, Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders is a social realist study…
Read MoreWild by Mark Wilshin Much like John Curran’s Tracks at last year’s London Film Festival, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild follows one lone woman Cheryl Strayed…
Read MoreSong From The Forest Structured around a liturgy rather than a dramaturgy, Michael Obert’s Song From The Forest is a contemplative study of an…
Read MoreThe 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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Exposing India’s labyrinthine judicial system, Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature Court brings a slow dread to the impossibility of justice.
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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With an explosive performance from Jack O’Connell, Yann Demange’s ’71 leads us through the backstreets of the Troubles, quite literally.
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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A sumptuously shot, intelligently-scripted drama about the ill-matched marriage of critic and artist John Ruskin and the much younger, beautiful Effie Gray.