Dir: Harry O. Hoyt | Cast: Betty Compson, Tom Ricketts |  1926 Reviewed by Richard Chatten The youth culture of the postwar flapper era overlapped during the early 1920s with the possibility...

Dir.: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyö, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimra, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijioru Ueda; Japan 1950; 88 min. From Agatha Christie to Patricia Highsmith modern literature is fraught with...

Dir: Thomas Kruithof | Cast: Virginie Efira, Arieh Worthalter | Drama France 99' A drama set during the French "Gilets Jaunes" crisis (2018-2020) when people from all walks of life got...

Kinoteka, the UK's annual Polish Film Festival is now in full swing in various locations nationwide. Each year the Polish Cultural Institute in London offers  audiences the best of contemporary...

Dir: Kuba Mikurda | Wri: Marcin Kubawski, Kuba Mikurda | Doc 72' Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk, by debut documentarian and academic Kuba Mikurda, explores the career of the...

Dir: Ildikó Enyedi | Drama | Hungary 2017 | 116' · Colour Nearly two decades after My 20th Century (1989), Hungarian auteur Ildikó Enyedi’s returns with an arthouse curio whose compellingly clinical visual aesthetic...

Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016), the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, was a master of cinematic minimalism who famously used cars to bypass Iranian censorship, often filming in them to create private spaces in...

Director: Agnieszka Holland  Writers: Agnieszka Holland, Maciej Karpinski | Cast: Maria Chwalibog, Boguslaw Linda, Pawel Witczak, Danuta Balicka-Satanowska | 92min | Drama | Poland The gruelling life of a single mother is the...

Dir/Wri: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Cast: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, John Magaro, Matthew Maher, Jeannie Berlin, Zlatko Burić, Louis Cancelmi, Julianne Hough |...