Reviews

Director: David Lean | Scr: Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey | 88' | Romantic Drama  | UK What makes BRIEF ENCOUNTER such a classic English...

Dir: Michael Morris | Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger | Comedy UK US France 2025 How things have changed since middle-aged widow Jeanne Dielman strutted her stuff...

Dir.: Chantal Akerman; Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bicat; Belgium/France 1975, 202 min. Ironic that Chantal Akerman’s epic of female loneliness has replaced Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo...

Dir: John Schlesinger | UK Comedy The joker in the pack of John Schlesinger's filmography, for whom this legendary financial disaster marked a strange venture into territory better suited to...

Dir/Wri: Patrick Dickinson | Cast:: Lily Franky, Ryo Nishikido, Tae Kimura, Rin Takanashi |  UK/Japan. 2022. 94' Japanese domestic dramas are often described as tender and this is the case for...

Dir: Kevin Brownlow | UK sci/fi This work of youthful promise by Kevin Brownlow later became legendary for the duration of its production. Since it depicts an alternate reality, technically -...

Dir: Joe Swanberg | Cast: Greta Gerwig, Kent Osbourne, Andrew Bajalski, Mark Duplass | US 2007 84’ Hannah wants to be a playwright. She spends a Chicago summer interning at a...

Wri/Dir: Igor Bezinovic | Doc 112' 2025 In 1919, outraged by the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference, which proposed handing the city of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) to Yugoslavia, Italian...

Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Cast: Sebastián Koch, Martina Gedeck | Germany Drama  131’ Nostalgia for the Germany of the cold era was at first cautiously expressed under the cover...