Reviews

Dir: Khadifa Wong Khadifa Wong's life experience as a dancer informs her lively if over-talkie debut feature about the origins of jazz dance. Celebrating its international premiere at this year's Raindance Film...

Dir.: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur; Documentary with Jiri Menzel, Vera Chytilova, Woody Allen, Raoul Coutard, Milos Foreman, Ivan Passer, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland; India 2018, 448 min./Special features 23...

Dir: Charles Crichton | Script: T.E.B. Clarke | Cast: Alex Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass | UK, Comedy Crime Drama 78' Of all the British-produced caper films The Lavender...

Dir: Kote Mikaberidze | Silent, Georgia, 80' This triumph of early Georgian silent cinema mines its absurdist humour from petty bureaucracy when the country was still part of the USSR. The...

Dir: Bassam Tariq | UK Drama, 90 min Riz Ahmed is screen dynamite as a British Pakistani rapper afflicted by a wasting disease in this dazzling and deeply personal portrait of...

Dir.: Dan Kokotajlo; Cast: Siobhan Finneran, Sacha Parkinson, Molly Wright, Robert Emms; UK 2017, 96 min Dan Kokotajlo’s debut feature is an intelligent  study in emotional fascism based on his own...

Dir: Fred Scott | Doc with Roy Andersson and his team, 90' The Swedish auteur Roy Andersson (1943-) looks back on his life and his filmmaking style in this enjoyable first feature...

Dir.: Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger; Documentary with Rick Bright, Robert R. Redfield, Eva Lee, Alex Azar, Nancy Messonier; USA 2020, 124 min. Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney and his co-directors...

Dir.: Wei Shujun; Cast: Zheng Yingchen, Zhou You, Lin Kai, Wang Xiaomu; China 2020, 134 min. Wei Shujun won a Special Award for his short film On the Border at Cannes 2018 and...