Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 7
Maybe it’s me. Or maybe it’s the films. But today’s Competition selection makes for depressingly ambiguous viewing. First there’s Argentinian director Celina Murga’s La…
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Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 6
All’s fair in love and war. But in Feo Aladag’s war film Zwischen Welten, it seems like nothing’s really fair. Following an Afghani interpreter…
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Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 5
Perhaps one of the most enjoyable films so far is Hans Petter Molland’s scandi coproduction In Order Of Disappearance with actors and funding from…
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Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 4
If yesterday was love, then today it’s sin, walking the Via Dolorosa (literally) with Stations Of The Cross and Cavalry as well as mortifying…
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Berlin Film Festival: Day 3
Love is strange. No, not the Fifties pop song by Mickey and Sylvia, but Ira Sachs’ latest film. Like his previous Keep The Lights…
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Berlin Film Festival: Day 2
Through Berlin, Paris, Belfast and New Mexico, today’s Berlinale selection leads us through war, homelessness, redemption and love. Perhaps the best is Yann Demange’s…
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Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 1
The 64th Berlin Film Festival opens with a giddy ride through Europe’s backwaters tonight with the premiere of Wes Anderson’s long anticipated The Grand…
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Review Of The Year: 2013
In black and white or riotous colour, here’s a quick look back over the best and worst films of 2013 and a sneak preview of the movies to watch out for in 2014.
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 12
And so after 12 days and over 250 features from 57 countries, we end where we began – with a Tom Hanks Hollywood blockbuster….
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 11
After his own particular take on the assassin movie, Jim Jarmusch is reinventing the vampire genre with Only Lovers Left Alive. After the Twilight…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 10
Returning to themes of freedom and return, Steve McQueen’s Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winning 12 Years A Slave is set for much bigger…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 9
After yesterday’s Don Jon, the sex continues. And most explicitly with Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is The Warmest Colour – the Palme d’Or winner at…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 8
Sex, lies and money are today’s hooks, lines and sinkers, starting with Stephen Frears’ Philomena. Based on the book by former BBC journalist and…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 7
Of course, the headline film should really be the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, but instead I’m choosing Tracks – John Curran’s recreation of…
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