Special Feature: BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture Series
Advertisements Over the past two years BAFTA have invited many of the finest screenwriters working today to discuss their methods and projects. Past guests...
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ 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.
Advertisements Over the past two years BAFTA have invited many of the finest screenwriters working today to discuss their methods and projects. Past guests...
Advertisements For the first time this January, audiences will experience Les Miserables as never before, in a new and unique adaptation from Academy Award-winning...
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Taking an a tried and tested theme has never been so stilted and unexciting as it is in Peter Næss’ Cross of...