Features
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Feature: Corbucci vs. Tarantino
When Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight was released earlier this year, many pointed to director Sergio Leone as one of the central influences. Tarantino has often name-checked and sound-checked Leone: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 features a track lifted from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and the first chapter of Inglorious Basterds is certainly an…
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Baftas 2016: Bridge of Spies, Carol lead
Announced by Stephen Fry and actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, this year’s Bafta nominations were revealed earlier this morning. Todd Haynes’ Carol and Steve Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies lead the way with nine nominations a-piece, earning nods for Best Film and Best Director as well as a host of technical awards. Elsewhere, Oscar hopefuls The Revenant, Spotlight…
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Our Most Anticipated Films of 2016
Hopefully you’ve had time to peruse our Best of 2015 rundowns (Part One and Part Two), but now that we’ve officially reached 2016 it’s time to present some of the film we’re most looking forward to seeing in the following twelve months. Rather than present an enormous list of upcoming releases (75 is probably a…
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The Best Films of 2015: Part Two (10-1)
Welcome to our rundown of the top ten films of 2015. To see the various cinematic delights that comprised the remainder of our top twenty, you can check out our first post here. We’d also like to take the time to shout out to the likes of The Good Dinosaur, Whiplash, Ex Machina, American Sniper,…
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The Best Films of 2015: Part One (20-11)
It’s that time of year again where we cast our eyes back and reflect on what we’ve done. As is customary, the CineVue team has taken the opportunity to cogitate on the cinematic delights of the past twelve months. Although we’re a UK-based blog, we pride ourselves on our festival coverage and as such have…
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Summer 2016 blockbuster preview
2016 is looking like a major year in film. As has become increasingly typical, many of the big budget projects are slated for summer releases. As publicity intensifies for some of these films and the early reviews come out, a lot can change when it comes our perception of which projects will be most successful.…
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Special Feature: ‘Filmish: A Graphic History of Film’
Lovers of cinema are in for a treat this month, with the launch of Edward Ross’ Filmish: A Graphic History of Film, a cinematic history told through the comic book medium. Filmish offers a fairly familiar and broad narrative of European and Hollywood cinema, though its deep love for film shines through. Moreover, the graphic…
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Special Feature: BFI presents Věra Chytilová
“Form seemed to have gone rigid.” Few sentences or sentiments could better encapsulate the climate in which Věra Chytilová, Queen of the Czech New Wave, forged her boundary-pushing directorial career – or the spunky attitude with which she approached her craft. Perhaps most fittingly, they are her own words. Even before her cinematic education, she…
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Oscars 2015: ‘Birdman’ Best Picture, Best Director
Something of a surprise success story on the night given recent results, the two biggest accolades of the 87th Academy Awards were reserved for Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, the recipient of both Best Picture and Best Director Oscars as well as Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Best Actress went to Julianne Moore…
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Oscars 2015: Main award predictions
Later this evening (and into the early hours for those of us in the UK), the 87th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre, with director Richard Linklater’s Boyhood going up against Alejandro Iñárritu’s Birdman and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel for most of the main awards including Best Director…
