Apr 18, 2014
Set in a back-to-the-future dystopia, this doom-filled drama, based on Dostoyesky's short story, is suffused with all kinds of influences from Kafta to Orwell to Polanski.'s The Tenant.
Richard Ayoade's follow-up...
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Apr 6, 2014
On a cold, wet afternoon last October, Alex Barrett sat down with Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani to discuss The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears, on the day of...
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Dec 1, 2013
Dir: John Krokidas; Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane de Haan, Ben Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh
USA 2013, 104 min. Drama
The first feature film of scriptwriter John Krokidas (Being John Malkovich) takes Daniel...
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Nov 26, 2013
Director: Francois Ozon
Cast: Marina Vacth, Geraldine Paihas, Frederic Pierrot, Fantin Ravat
95min French with English subtitles Drama
Student prostitution has come under the spotlight recently with dazzling insight from Emmanuelle...
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Oct 27, 2013
Dir.: Usup Razykow; Cast: Maria Semenova, Elenena Korobynikova, Helga, Filipova, Seseg Hapsasova; Russia 2012; 90 min.
Best known for his 2000 drama Women Kingdom, writer and director Yusup Razykov is a leading light in...
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Oct 20, 2013
Director/Writer: Clio Barnard
Cast: Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Steve Evets. Lorraine Ashbourne, Conner Chapman
93min Drama UK
The gently rolling countryside of Yorkshire is the setting for Clio Barnard's contemporary coming of...
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Oct 19, 2013
Director/Writer: Michalis Konstantatos Writer: Michalis Konstantatos
Cast: Nicholas Vlachakis, Eleftheria Komi, Christos Saupountzis, Connie Zikou
104min Psychological Drama Greek with English subtitles
Michalis Konstantatos's debut feature LUTON, initially appears to have...
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Oct 19, 2013
Dir: Nicolas Wrathhall; USA2013, 89 min
Like many critics of the capitalist system, Gore Vidal, who died last year age 86, came from a very privileged background: his father Eugene Vidal...
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Oct 18, 2013
Despite the ostentatious wealth of Moscow's elite, two films at the London Film Festival show us that modern life for ordinary Russians is still hard-going and hasn't change much since...
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