The 32nd London Film Critics’ Circle Awards took place tonight at the BFI Southbank, with Michel Hazanavicius’ silent extravaganza The Artist once again turning out as top dog, picking up the Film of the Year, Director of the Year and […]
★☆☆☆☆ Madonna’s second directorial feature (following 2008’s Filth and Wisdom), W.E. (2011) – starring Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy – parallels the infamous royal scandal of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII’s controversial love affair with the story of […]
★★★★★ When critics talk about L’Atalante it usually doesn’t take long for them to start discussing the legendary short life of its director Jean Vigo, who died of tuberculosis shortly after the film’s release in 1934. Whilst the production history of the […]
★★★★☆ A highly cerebral and often entrancing experience, John Akomfrah’s 2010 film The Nine Muses is a truly refreshing meditation on the search for identity in a complex, globalised society. Composed of archive footage intertwined with original material shot in […]
