EIFF 2013: ‘Everybody’s Gone’ review
★★★☆☆ A surreal period piece about a small Georgian community during the dying whimpers of the Soviet Union, Georgy Paradzhanov’s Everybody’s Gone (Vse ushli, 2013) […]
EIFF 2013: ‘Shooting Bigfoot’ review
★★★☆☆ The mockumentary has steadily evolved over the last 30 years, borrowing here and there from the found footage and talking head formats that have […]
EIFF 2013: ‘Roland Hassel’ review
★★☆☆☆ UK audiences have acquired quite the taste for Scandinavian crime drama, with shows like The Killing, Borgen and Wallander all received with open arms. […]
Interview: Cristian Mungiu, ‘Beyond the Hills’
Available to own now on DVD and Blu-ray from world cinema distributor Artificial Eye, Beyond the Hills (2012) is director Cristian Mungiu’s remarkable follow-up to […]
Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho, ‘Neighbouring Sounds’
Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho is the discovery of the year. His feature debut, Neighbouring Sounds (2012), is a provocative chronicle of urban angst played […]
DVD Review: ‘Neighbouring Sounds’
★★★★☆ Taking place behind the high walls and security gates of an affluent district in the Brazilian city of Recife, Neighbouring Sounds (O Som ao […]
DVD Review: ‘Home’ (‘Yurt’)
★★☆☆☆ Existential malaise has long been a tenet of contemplative European cinema, and Turkish filmmaker Muzaffer Özdemir has embraced the tradition in his first feature […]
DVD Review: ‘This Is 40’
★★★☆☆ Following on from 2009’s Funny People, director Judd Apatow has spent the last few years working as a producer on films such as Bridesmaids […]
DVD Review: ‘Song for Marion’
★★☆☆☆ Cashing in on the current craze for ‘Grey pound’-targeted filmmaking – heralded by the success of The King’s Speech (2010) and The Best Exotic […]
DVD Review: ‘Here, Then’
★★★★☆ Awarded the Best International Film prize at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival over Dan Sallitt’s The Unspeakable Act and Miguel Gomes’ marvellous Tabu, […]