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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Love, Marilyn (2012)
★★★★☆
A moving portrait of a model on the make and an actress facing her demons, Liz Garbus’s Love, Marilyn brings the Hollywood icon back to life.
Enough Said (2013)
★★★☆☆
A divorced woman who is the parent of a teenage daughter disovers that the man she’s just started a relationship with is the ex-husband of her new female friend.
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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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 3
The vogue for monochrome continues with Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. And after Hawaii in The Descendants, Payne ups sticks to another overlooked state, this time…
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Le Week-End (2013)
★★★★☆
Love, life and languor in the City of Lights, Roger Michell’s Le Week-End sees a couple renegotiating their marriage and giving it the ooh-la-la.
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013)
★★★☆☆
Like someone in love, Hong Sangsoo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon draws out the loneliness of youth as a pretty student negotiates family, love and relationships.
Filth (2013)
★★★☆☆
A manic Edinburgh police detective manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in this adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel.
The Crash Reel (2013)
★★☆☆☆
Following snowboarder Kevin Pearce’s life after traumatic brain injury, Lucy Walker’s documentary The Crash Reel sees a rising star come crashing down to earth.
In The Name Of / W Imie (2013)
★★★★☆
Love in a dark time, Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of evokes the desolation of a gay man in conflict with God with summertime brilliance.
Hannah Arendt (2012)
★★★☆☆
A portrait of the great thinker in troubled times, Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt is more than a woman.