Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011: Alternative roundup
Advertisements It has been little over half a year since the last Sheffield Doc/Fest, and while the impetus for the move to June was...
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
Advertisements It has been little over half a year since the last Sheffield Doc/Fest, and while the impetus for the move to June was...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ David O. Russell’s boxing biopic The Fighter (2010) may not have won as many Academy Awards as it would have liked to,...
Advertisements Sheffield Doc/Fest has rightly won a reputation for being one of the most important aspects of the documentary film calendar for industry professionals...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ There are so many reasons to love François Ozon’s latest film, Potiche (2011). It possesses jollity, a strong sense of playfulness and...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ We may only be halfway through the year, but it is my firm belief that the remainder of 2011 will not see...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Aspiring illustrator Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and wannabe sci-fi writer Clive Gollings (Nick Frost) are in geek paradise when they visit Comic-Con...
Advertisements Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) delightfully poor premise follows a U.F.O. resembling a circus tent full of maniacal monster ‘klowns’ armed to...
Advertisements Earlier this week the internet erupted in a fit of convulsive irritation at the BBFC’s decision to deny The Human Centipede II (Full...