Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
★★★★☆
Based on an original idea by Wim Wenders, Cathedrals Of Culture is a portmanteau of six directors finding their own genius in architectural space.
Mark Wilshin
London Film Festival 2014: Jauja
Jauja Filmed in a stunning 4:3 aspect ratio with rounded corners, Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja creates an intriguing story of Danish engineer Captain Dinesen travelling…
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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: 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: 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: 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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London Film Festival 2014: The Wonders / Le Meraviglie
The Wonders by Mark Wilshin Following a farming family living on the brink of bankruptcy, Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders is a social realist study…
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London Film Festival 2014: War Book
War Book by Mark Wilshin Every year the British Government spend three days simulating a national response to the outbreak of nuclear war. Civil…
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