Blu-ray Review: ‘Amélie’
★★★☆☆ This week sees the cinematic rerelease (ahead of its Blu-ray release on 17 Oct) of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s modern day fairytale Amélie (2001), the film that […]
DVD Review: ‘Senna’
★★★★☆ You hold a memory clear in your mind and then years later you meet someone who shared the experience with you, a family picnic, […]
Venice 2011: ‘Faust’ review
★★★★☆ Alexander Sokurov’s Faust (2010) – awarded the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival – begins high above the earth, gazing into a […]
Venice 2011: ‘Faust’ wins Golden Lion
The gongs have been distributed at this year’s Venice Film Festival and the winner of the coveted Golden Lion is Aleksandr Sokurov‘s Faust, starring Hanna Schygulla, […]
Venice 2011: The Race for the Golden Lion
The Venice Film Festival has never been the type of festival where the awards are particularly important – its gongs have never quite have the […]
Venice 2011: ‘Killer Joe’ review
★★★★☆ Memories of director William Friedkin’s former glories, specifically The Exorcist (1973) and The French Connection (1971), have made sitting through past tripe like Jade […]