London Film Festival 2014: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby – Them
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby – Them Following two separate releases of Ned Benson’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby – Him and – Her…
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London Film Festival 2014: Girlhood / Bande de Filles
Set to a pulse-pounding soundtrack, Girlhood encapsulates the careless, giddy energy of teendom, but much like its protagonist, is a little confused with its…
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London Film Festival 2014: Marc Quinn – Making Waves
Marc Quinn – Making Waves by Mark Wilshin A year in the life of artist Marc Quinn, infamous for the bust of his own…
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London Film Festival 2014: Foxcatcher
Carell, Ruffalo and Tatum are a stellar triumvirate in this unsettling and bone-chillingly creepy true story.
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London Film Festival 2014: Mommy
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…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Tribe
The Tribe by Mark Wilshin How important is language to one’s understanding of a work of art? Or culture or country? For Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s…
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London Film Festival 2014: Phoenix
Phoenix by Mark Wilshin Loosely based on extracts from Hubert Monteilhet’s Le Retour Des Cendres, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix plays a dangerous game with its…
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London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash
Ferocious, electric and unrelenting, Simmons and Teller never miss a beat in Damien Chazelle’s phenomenal second feature. Whiplash by Dave O’Flanagan Boasting not one,…
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London Film Festival 2014: My Old Lady
My Old Lady by Alexa Dalby Kevin Kline shines as Mathias (Jim) Gold, a boorish American in Paris, just short of his 57th birthday….
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London Film Festival 2014: Love Is Strange
Love Is Strange by Mark Wilshin Following his New York story of impossible love Keep The Lights On, Ira Sachs returns with another devastating…
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London Film Festival 2014: Leviathan
Leviathan Moving from vast vistas of Russia’s frozen North into an isolated parable of one man, ex-soldier and handyman Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) as he…
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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: Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth by Mark Wilshin Following his previous film The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, James Kent returns with a fully fledged…
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London Film Festival 2014: Serena
Serena by Mark Wilshin It doesn’t look good from the get-go. George (Bradley Cooper) is a hunter on the quest for a near-extinct puma,…
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