Reviews

Dir: Stephen Nomura Schible (US, Japan, 100’, Japanese/English s/t English/Italian) Five years in the making, Stephen Nomura's discreet yet resonant portrait Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda brings us face to face with the Oscar-winning Japanese...

Dir/Wri: Eva Vitija | Doc, 73' "I shall travel the world and still feel lonely: I am the forever-seeking". Patricia Highsmith The American novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) is seen through the prism...

2023 marks the seventieth anniversary of the publication by Jonathan Cape of the first of what became a long-running series of novels by Ian Fleming detailing the adventures of a...

Dir: Stuart Heisler | US Drama It is a truth rarely acknowledged that for every timeless classic Humphrey Bogart made during the forties there was a mediocre clunker now languishing in...

Dir.: Tarik Saleh; Cast: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri, MakramKhoury, Mehdi Dehbi, Ramzi Choukair, Sherwan Haji; Sweden/Finland/France 2022, 126 min. The Cairo Conspiracy is an ambitious thriller with strong affinities...

Dir.: Jean-Paul Mertinez; Documentary with Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama, Har Mander Singh, Rani Singh, Nithin Coca, Leslie Dirusso, Dr Lobsang Sangay, Rinchen Khandro Choegyal narrated by Hugh Bonneville;...

Dir: Sylvain Desclous | Cast: Rebecca Marder, Benjamin Levernhe, Emmanuelle Bercot, Marc Barbe | France, Drama 105' Benjamin Lavernhe and Rebecca Murder star as hypocritical left-wing lawyers in this ambitious but...

Dir: Tonislav Hristov | Finland, Doc with Ivan | 79' Writer director Tonislav Hristov offers more insight into his native Bulgaria with this melancholic look at last chances and dwindling communities...

Dir.: Ben Affleck; Cast Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Matthew Maher, Damien Young; USA 2023, 112 min. Director Ben Affleck teams up again with...