Features
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Barbican Film: ‘Seven Samurai’
Proceeding last month’s brilliant Takeshi Kitano programme, it was typically appropriate for the Barbican to round off the Akira Kurosawa Directorspective season with a screening of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed Seven Samurai (1954).Kurosawa’s fifteenth directorial outing is a film which since its initial release has gone on to receive numerous awards, being consistently…
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Total Film Awards 2011: Vote CineVue for Best Overall Blog
We’re extremely excited and proud to announce that the CineVue site has been officially nominated for Best Overall Blog in the Total Film Movie Blog Awards 2011. A huge thank you has to go out to all of you who nominated the site in the opening round of voting at the end of last year…
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Special Feature: The Most Anticipated Films of 2011
Happy New Year one and all and welcome officially to 2011! The last twelve months have arguably been a great cumulative year for cinema, but with new films scheduled for release from British Oscar winner Danny Boyle, dynamic duo the Coen brothers, Darren Aronofsky and the seldom-seen Terrence Malick, 2011 is shaping up to be…
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Barbican Film: Andrei Konchalovsky Directorspective
This January, Barbican Film’s regular director retrospective series presents the films of one of Russia’s best known and revered Russian film makers, Andrei Konchalovsky.Konchalovsky was student to the celebrated Mosfilm veteran Mikhail Romm at VKIG (Moscow State Film School) and his filmmaking career has seen him receive both censorship and major awards such as Venice Grand Special…
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Special Feature: The Best Films of 2010
The New Year is nearly upon us, so to celebrate the timely end of 2010 (and another decade) CineVue’s editorial team have provided a near-definitive rundown of their own personal Top Five films of the year, as well as the most exceptional director and actor of the last twelve months in cinema. Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet,…
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The Total Film Movie Blog Awards 2011: Please nominate CineVue for ‘Best Overall Blog’
It’s that time of year again…The 2011 Total Film Movie Blog Awards are just around the corner, and this year the movie news giants are asking the public to nominate the sites that they think should be vying for one of the highly prestigious awards up for grabs. The CineVue team feels that the site…
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Special Feature: What is your film of 2010?
On Tuesday (21st December 2010) we’ll be presenting our rundown of the best films released over the last 12 months according to some of our top writers. In the meantime, we’d like to know which film you deem to be the ‘best of 2010’. We’ve managed to cut the short-list down to 8 films which between them…
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Barbican Film: ‘Kagemusha’
Kagemusha (1980) is an exemplary piece of film that stands out as a testament to the extraordinary career of the late great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. As a young man Kurosawa was keenly involved with the arts and in particular painting. At the age of 26 he made his first steps into the world of…
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Barbican Film: Kurosawa Directorspective
Alongside legendary directors Yasujirō Ozu and Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa is often cited as one of Japanese cinema’s greatest exponents. With a career spanning six decades and numerous high profile awards including the Palme d’Or and Golden Lion to his name, London’s Barbican Centre has rightly dedicated an entire mini season to his superlative works, which also serves…
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Special Feature: Leslie Nielsen 1926-2010
In a career which spanned more than six decades and saw appearances in over a hundred films, Leslie William Nielsen had a momentous career to say the least. The Canadian born actor had starring roles in a number of film and television programmes, from Michael Curtiz’s The Vagabond King (1956) and Fred M. Wilcox’s Forbidden…