DVD Review: ‘Starlet’
★★★☆☆ New on DVD this week through Soda Pictures, Sean Baker’s Starlet (2012) is a sun-drenched LA-based drama that’s almost as warm and glamorous...
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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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DVD Review: ‘Drinking Buddies’
★★☆☆☆ The American mumblecore movement has found itself at a crossroads of late it would seem, ironically caught in its own adolescent identity crisis....
DVD Review: ‘For Those in Peril’
★★★★☆ An hypnotic fable of guilt and redemption, Paul Wright’s ethereal Scottish drama For Those in Peril (2013) tells the story of Aaron (George MacKay),...
Film Review: ‘Stranger by the Lake’
★★★★☆ An unnerving examination of promiscuity and infatuation, Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake (2013) combines the ethnography of gay cinema with an exhilarating...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Umbrellas of Cherbourg’
★★★★★ Jacques Demy’s poignant tale of doomed romanticism, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), is rereleased on Blu-ray this month through StudioCanal. Bold and incredibly...
DVD Review: ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2’
★★★☆☆ Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) follows on from the phenomenal success of the surreal 2009...
Berlin 2014: ‘La Belle et la Bête’ review
★★☆☆☆ Christophe Gans invites you to be his guest for yet another adaptation of classic French fancy La Belle et la Bête (2014). Attempting to...
Berlin 2014: ‘The Second Game’ review
★★★★☆ Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich once described football as “the ballet of the masses”. In Corneliu Porumboiu’s minimalist documentary The Second Game (2014), we...
