London Film Festival 2014: ’71
’71 by Mark Wilshin Yann Demange, the director behind British genre TV hits Dead Set and Top Boy, delivers one fire-cracker of a debut…
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London Film Festival 2014: Björk Biophilia Live
Björk Biophilia Live by Alexa Dalby A film of Björk’s live stage show that formed part of her multimedia Biophilia project, these 97 minutes…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Way He Looks / Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho
The Way He Looks Love is blind. And all the more so for Leo (Ghilherme Lobo), a São Paulo teenager with not much going…
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London Film Festival 2014: Excuse My French
Excuse My French by Dave O’Flanagan It’s a wonderfully positive testament to director Amr Salama, and the Egyptian film industry, that creativity has somehow…
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London Film Festival 2014: Camp X-Ray
Powerful and moving with excellent performances from Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi, Camp X-Ray puts a human face on the detainees of Guantanamo Bay.
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London Film Festival 2014: Black Coal, Thin Ice
Black Coal, Thin Ice by Mark Wilshin Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice…
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London Film Festival 2014: OXI An Act of Resistance
OXI An Act of Resistance Constructed out of interviews with Greek politicians, economists and Athenian citizens, an investigation – courtesy of Dominique Pinon –…
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London Film Festival 2014: French Riviera / L’Homme Qu’on Aimait Trop
French Riviera Freely inspired by real events that saw a casino queen pursue her daughter’s lover through the courts for murder, André Téchiné’s L’Homme…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game Benedict Cumberbatch gives an Oscar-worthy performance in Morten Tyldrum’s (Headhunters) well-structured and scripted (Graham Moore), gripping biopic of Alan Turing, now…
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The 64th Berlin Film Festival – Berlinale 2014
With jury president producer James Schamus at the helm, the 64th Berlin Film Festival sees a lot of Eastern promise with Awards for both China and Japan.
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Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 9
Fathers and sons are the order of the day again today. Starting with Sudabeh Mortezai’s Macondo, which bears a striking thematic resemblance to both…
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Berlin Film Festival 2014: Day 8
Masculinity takes charge in today’s Berlinale selection, starting with Ning Hao’s No Man’s Land – a Chinese Western of silent, bone-crunching machismo as a…
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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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