DVD Review: ‘El Alma de las Moscas’
★★★☆☆ The directorial debut of Jonathan Cenzual Burley, El Alma de las Moscas (The Soul of Flies, 2010) is a charming and surreal Spanish...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★☆☆ The directorial debut of Jonathan Cenzual Burley, El Alma de las Moscas (The Soul of Flies, 2010) is a charming and surreal Spanish...
★★★☆☆ Whilst the fruits of last year’s Arab Spring are currently being sampled in a number of Middle Eastern former-dictatorships, Israel and Palestine remain...
★★★★☆ Tsui Hark’s Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D (2011) is proof once more, that Hark is a true revisionist of Hong Kong genre...
★★★★☆ In recent years, Tim Burton’s cinematic output has been more than a little disappointing. Revisiting his own source material with 2012 stop-motion animation...
★★★☆☆ After being well-received in the US earlier this year, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012) finally gets its UK release this week. Not...
★★★★★ A runaway hit on the 2012 festival circuit (with acclaim coming at both Sundance and Cannes), Benh Zeitlin’s vibrant and imaginative eco-fantasy Beasts...
★★★☆☆ Sally Potter’s most accessible film to date, Ginger & Rosa (2012) boasts an all-star cast of acting talent including rising star Elle Fanning,...
★★★☆☆ Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Sound of My Voice (2011) and P. T. Anderson’s highly anticipated The Master (2012) all bring...