CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
A startling return to form for cult director Quentin Tarantino, action-packed spaghetti western Django Unchained (2012) was nominated for five Academy Awards earlier this year, taking home the Oscars for Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino) and Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz). To celebrate the Blu-ray and DVD release of Tarantino’s blood-soaked Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Following the success of last year’s In the House (2012), acclaimed French director François Ozon returns to cinema screens this week with Palme d’Or nominee Jeune & Jolie (2013), a stylish, well-crafted and intelligent study of a young woman coming of age through the space of four seasons, and Continue Reading
He may not be at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but Danish enfant terrible Lars von Trier will be taking over London’s BFI Southbank this month (up until 30 May) for a special film season commemorating his work in cinema – from the acclaimed to the downright controversial (who’s excited Continue Reading
On DVD from Monday 20 May, Robert Lorenz’s Trouble with the Curve (2012) offers a poignant look at a father and daughter coming together again after years of bitterness, with Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood starring as ageing baseball scout Gus Lobel. To celebrate the home entertainment release of Trouble with Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Asghar Farhadi first burst onto the international scene with his 2011 Silver Bear/Oscar winner A Separation, the most recent of several astute Iranian dramas. Farhadi returns this year with Palme d’Or nominee The Past (Le passé, 2013), a film equally as riveting as those that came before. This nuanced, Continue Reading
★★★★★ Based on the real-life 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, Ryan Coogler’s feature debut Fruitvale Station (2013) is an uncompromising, original and movingly humane piece of American political cinema. Michael B. Jordan plays Oscar, who, on New Year’s Eve, has already committed himself to fulfilling his annual Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Opening the Un Certain Regard section of the 66th Cannes Film Festival comes Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013), a teen crime movie/wannabe satire based on the true story of a gang of over-privileged kids (with serious entitlement issues) who burgled a succession of Hollywood celebrity abodes several years Continue Reading