Blu-ray Review: ‘Tabu’
★★★★☆ Produced towards the end of the silent era, F.W. Murnau’s Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) was to be the legendary...
★★★★★ 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.
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.
★★★★☆ 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...
★★★★☆ Produced towards the end of the silent era, F.W. Murnau’s Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) was to be the legendary...
★★★★☆ Kaneto Shindô’s Naked Island (Hadaka no shima, 1960) receives the Blu-ray treatment this week thanks to the UK’s foremost purveyors of highly acclaimed...
★★☆☆☆ UK audiences have acquired quite the taste for Scandinavian crime drama, with shows like The Killing, Borgen and Wallander all received with open...
★★★★☆ Awarded the Best International Film prize at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival over Dan Sallitt’s The Unspeakable Act and Miguel Gomes’ marvellous...
★★☆☆☆ If you haven’t yet decided on your summer holiday destination, you might want to consider the fertile fields, magnificent mountain ranges and awe-inspiring...
★★★★☆ An abridged appendix to his five-hour essay The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), critic-turned-director Mark Cousins brings his latest documentary to the...
★★★★★ Shane Carruth’s independently financed, mind-boggler of a time travel movie Primer (2004) earned the director a well-earned cult following. Nine years later, we...
★★☆☆☆ Winner of the Tiger Award at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, Mohammad Shirvani’s Fat Shaker (Larzanandeye charbi, 2013) went on to become the...