Blu-ray Review: ‘Couscous’
★★★★☆ Released on Blu-ray this week to capitalise on the success of his Palme d’Or-winning Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Abdellatif Kechiche’s Couscous...
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14 April 2023
Film Review: Three Colours Trilogy
★★★★★ Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours Trilogy stars Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irene Jacob in three of the most revered pieces of European cinema ever made. Named after the colours of the French flag (Blue, White and Red), the films are loosely based on the three political ideals of the French Republic; Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
23 August 2022
Sarajevo 2022: Our festival highlights
The Sarajevo Film Festival has a history of resilience, so it was hardly surprising to see it come back stronger than ever after two years of Covid restrictions. Founded in 1995, the festival is now the leading industry event in south-east Europe, showcasing the very best films from across the Balkan peninsula.
22 October 2020
Film Review: Cinema Paradiso
★★★★☆ A major contributor to the reverential narrative of wistful cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore’s magnum opus Cinema Paradiso is an elegant distillation of the form’s...
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Film Review: ‘Willow and Wind’
★★★★☆ To coincide with the release of Mark Cousins’ A Story of Children and Film (2013), Filmhouse Edinburgh are rolling out The Cinema of...
Film Review: ‘Calvary’
★★★☆☆ Two years on from the success of his quintessentially Irish buddy movie The Guard (2011), John Michael McDonagh reunites with Brendan Gleeson for...
DVD Review: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
★★★☆☆ Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s fifth and penultimate venture into Middle-earth, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) sees J.R.R. Tolkien’s...
Film Review: ‘Afternoon Delight’
★☆☆☆☆ With Afternoon Delight (2013), actress Kathryn Hahn and director Jill Soloway emerge from the shadows of male-centric comedy filmmaking. An apparently edgy, neurotic...
Special Feature: World Film Locations – Shanghai
Shanghai has a long, rich cinematic history, spanning from the Golden Age of Chinese cinema in the 1930s to its modern role as an...
DVD Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’
★★★☆☆ Piggybacking on the phenomenal popularity of young adult fiction adaptations like the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises, Gary Ross’ revision of Suzanne Collins’...
DVD Review: ‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’
★★★★☆ Discourse surrounding Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche’s adaptation of Julie Maroh’s eponymous graphic novel Blue Is the Warmest Colour quickly shifted from festival sensation...
