Kinoteka 2015: ‘Knights of the Teutonic Order’ review
★★★★☆ “Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever,” quoth Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. The turning wheel […]
Kinoteka 2015: ‘Blind Chance’ review
★★★★☆ Traditional narrative tropes of chance and fate are employed to glean some insight into living in Communist era Poland in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance […]
Kinoteka 2015: ‘A Short Film About Killing’ review
★★★★★ “Since the days of Cain, no punishment has improved the world or deterred anyone from committing crimes.” A Short Film About Killing (1988) – […]
Film Review: ‘Town That Dreaded Sundown’
★★☆☆☆ The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) is a bizarre remake/sequel hybrid of the 1976 film of the same name. That film, directed by Charles […]
Interview: Kristian Levring, ‘The Salvation’
Kristian Levring looks like one of the characters in his new film The Salvation (2014) – a distinct face, long dark hair, you could imagine […]
Film Review: ‘The Salvation’
★★★☆☆ The first film in over eight years for director Kristian Levring, The Salvation (2014) was a much-needed outlier on the festival circuit. A rare […]
Film Review: ‘Last Knights’
★★☆☆☆ Over a decade on from the success of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films, fantasy is still proving a crowd pleasing genre […]