Reviews

Director:  Manoel de Oliveira | Script: Manoel de Oliveira, Alberto Serpa, Joao Rodrigues de Freitas (novel) | Cast: Americo Botelho, Feliciano David, Nascimento Fernandes, Fernanda Matos, Rafael Mota, Antonio Palma | 71'  | Portugal...

Dir: Herbert Smith | With: Larry Adler, Arthur Askey, Bert Ambrose, Caroll Gibbons, Evelyn Dall | UK Musical 75' Shown in the small hours by Talking Pictures, this tinny Joe Rock...

Dir: Nicolas Winding Refyn | Cast: Kristen Scott Thomas, Ryan Gosling, Vithaya Pansringarm, Rhatha Phongam, Gordon Brown, Tom Burke | 90mins    Denmark/France For sheer cinematic brilliance and artistic style, Nicolas Winding Refyn's...

Dir/Wri: Leos Carax | Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver, Simon Helberg | Drama France, 139' French auteur Leos Carax last graced the Croisette with Holy Motors a weird and mysterious odyssey into...

Dir.: Lav Diaz; Cast: Bart Guingona, DMs Boongaling, Nading Josef, Hazel Orencio, Joel Saracho, Noel Sto. Domingo, Lolita Carbon, Popo Diaz; Philippines 2020, 150 min. Philippine filmmaker Lav Diaz (*1958) is...

Dir: Terence Young | Cast: Eric Portman, Edana Romney | UK drama 108’ A unique Gothic version of Fifty Shades of Gray, with the extravagance but not quite the sex (debuting...

Dir.: Stefan Arsenijevic; Cast: Ibrahim Koma, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Maxim Khali; Serbia/ France/Luxembourg/Bulgaria, Lithuania 2021, 92 min. Serbian director/co-writer Stefan Arsenijevic transforms an epic medieval Serbian poem, 'Banovich Stralinya', into a modern...

Dir.: Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders Olholm; Cast: Jacob Lohmann. Simon Sears, Tarek Zayat, Al Jabouri, Issa Khattab; Denmark 2020, 108 min. Shorta is an intelligent a police thriller tucking a range...

Dir.: Luke White; Documentary with Nick and Alex Bourne, Molly and Charles Somers, Amber and Armand Maillard, Krich and Sachit Matrega, Thanh Nam and Tranh Viet; UK 2021, 98 min. This...