Joseph Walsh
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DVD Review: ‘Broken Lines’
★★☆☆☆ Sallie Aprahamian’s Broken Lines (2008) – starring Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams – was screened earlier this year as part of the London Jewish Film Festival and is now available to own on DVD and Blu-ray. Set it multi-cultural North London, the plot revolves around two sets of couples each coming to terms with…
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DVD Review: ‘The Salt of Life’
★★★☆☆ The Salt of Life (2011) – otherwise known as Gianni e le donne (Gianni and Women) – is a light, warm-hearted Italian comedy starring, written and directed by the delightfully funny Gianni Di Gregorio. Gianni can count himself as middle-aged – just. Retired, he spends most of his time helping out the numerous women…
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Film Review: ‘Las Acacias’
★★★★☆ Camera d’Or winner Las Acacias (2011), directed by Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Giorgelli and starring Germán de Silva and Hebe Duarte, is a potent film of subtlety, silence and charm. This is a road movie with a difference following single mother Jancita (Duarte) and baby Anahí (Nayra Calle Mamani) as they travel to Buenos Aires…
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Film Review: ‘Romantics Anonymous’
★★★☆☆ Directed by Jean-Pierre Améris, Romantics Anonymous (2011) is a twee and light-hearted French romantic comedy starring Benoît Poelvoorde and the prolific Isabelle Carré. The film follows twitchy, insecure, yet highly talented chocolatier Angélique Delange (Carré), employed by the seemingly gruff and equally socially inept Jean-René Van Den Hugde (Poelvoorde) in his failing chocolate factory.…
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Special Feature: Martin Scorsese and cast discuss ‘Hugo’
Earlier today at a press conference in Central London, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese discussed his latest feature Hugo (2011), a magical 3D journey about a young boy (Asa Butterfield) who lives in Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, mending clocks and stealing parts in order to repair a complex automaton that he believes is holding…
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DVD Review: ‘Sarah’s Key’
★★★★☆ Sarah’s Key (2010), directed by Gilles Paquet Brenner and starring Kristin Scott Thomas (soon to appear in the film adaption of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) is a sophisticated film full of emotion. It takes the familiar topic of the Holocaust and combines it with a contemporary tale of a woman suffering an existential…
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Film Review: ‘Dream House’
★★☆☆☆ Director Jim Sheridan, best known for the Academy Award-winning In the Name of the Father (1993), returns with Dream House (2011), a mystery-thriller starring Daniel Craig (returning in the role of 007 for Bond 23, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall [2012]), Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts (next seen appearing alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood’s eagerly-awaited…
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BFI London Film Festival 2011: ’50/50′
★★☆☆☆ Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 (2011) stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen in a tragic comedy about a young man who discovers he has a rare form of spinal cancer, yet is unwilling to let it ruin his life. It is loosely based on the similar experiences of the film’s screenwriter Will Reiser, who himself suffered…
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Interview: Simon Curtis, ‘My Week with Marilyn’
This week, CineVue met up with British director Simon Curtis to talk about his newly released homage to Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier and the amazing story of Colin Clark, My Week with Marilyn (2011). The film blends two of Clark’s publications, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn, beginning as the…
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Film Review: ‘We Were Here’
★★★★☆ Directors David Weissman and Bill Weber (The Cockettes [2002]) return to screens this week with the powerful and moving AIDS focused documentary We Were Here (2011), set during the 1970s and 80s in the liberal US city of San Francisco. Drawing on intimate interviews from people who moved to San Francisco in the early…