Reviews

  Dir: Aki Kaurismäki | Cast: Andre Wilmes, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel, Evelyne Didi | French with English subtitles.  Cert12 Finnish director, Aki Kaurismäki has invented his own genre of 'contemporary retro'...

2021 gets off to a lowkey start with Sundance film festival announcing a mostly virtual edition, along with Rotterdam that follows in its footsteps on February 7th. Sundance welcomes fewer features...

Dir.: Chen Shelach; Documentary; Israel 2020, 70 min. This haunting documentary debut from Isreal's Chen Shelach, explores the traumatic past and present of Warsaw's Muranow, once home to 200,000 Polish Jews...

Dir.: Kirsten Johnson; Documentary with Richard Johnson, Kirsten Johnson; USA 2020, 89 min. US documentary filmmaker and FEMIS graduate Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) has directed - as well as co-written and co-produced...

Dir\Writer: Aki Kaurismaki: Cast: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Sakar Kuosmanen; Finland/France/Germany 2002; 97 min. Like many auteurs of his generation, Aki Kaurismaki is entirely self-taught. After a working life spent as a...

Dir: Fabrice du Welz | Wri: Roman Protat, Vincent Tavier | Begian auteur Fabrice du Welz delivers a painterly if predictable paean to first love in his latest psychological thriller that...

Dir.: Fred Wiseman; Documentary; USA 2020, 272 min. Fred Wiseman, who turned ninety this year, proves he is still a force to be reckoned with directing, writing and editing his latest...

Dir: Kantemir Balagov | Writers: Kantemir Balagov, Aleksandr Terekhov | Drama | Russia 114' A bitter bond of revenge and inter-dependence keeps two Russian women viscerally entwined in Leningrad after the...

Lon Chaney Jr is the stars in this fantasy horror compendium of six cult classic features that dabble in Death, dementia and the dark arts. Based on the popular radio shows...