DVD Review: ‘Love on a Pillow’
★★☆☆☆ Roger Vadim’s 1962 film Love on a Pillow sees Bridgit Bardot as the kind and caring Geneviève Le Theil, a well to-do girl from […]
DVD Review: ‘Hourglass Sanatorium’ & ‘The Saragossa Manuscript’
★★★☆☆ Time behaves in unpredictable ways, notions of reality and fantasy collapse and painful personal and national histories are examined in two films by Polish […]
DVD Review: ‘Straw Dogs’ (2011)
★★★☆☆ Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 classic Straw Dogs – a film that drew a huge amount of criticism in its day, and […]
DVD Review: ‘This Our Still Life’
★★★★☆ The latest release to come from the BFI’s very own DVD label, Andrew Kötting’s This Our Still Life (2011) is a deeply personal, lo-fi […]
DVD Review: ‘Resistance’
★★★☆☆ Ignore the bombastic DVD/Blu-ray cover with its armour-clad Nazi soldiers and pyrotechnics – the newly released Resistance (2011) couldn’t be much further away from […]