Kinoteka 2015: ‘Eroica’ review
Advertisements ★★★★☆ With the fires of the Second World War still smouldering European cinema rose from the embers across the continent. At one time...
★★★★☆ 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.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
Advertisements ★★★★☆ With the fires of the Second World War still smouldering European cinema rose from the embers across the continent. At one time...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Taking into account the countless iterations of vampire mythology in popular culture over the last few years, you’d be forgiven for thinking...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Maidan Nezalezhnosti is a square in the centre of Kiev in Ukraine. It gained its name – literally translated as Independence Square...
Advertisements ★★★★★ A lapsarian search for truth sits at the heart of Vera Chytilová’s avant garde masterpiece Fruit of Paradise (1970), but meaning is...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ The crushing weight of blue collar existence is as pivotal as that of the surrounding salty brine in Kevin MacDonald’s nautically inclined...