Reviews

Dir.: Alvi Bekin; Documentary with Mike Wallace; USA 2019, 90 min. Director Alvi Belin (Winding) has avoided hagiography in his biographical documentary of  CBS-TV journalist Mike Wallace (1918-2012). Equally a political...

Dir.: Prateek Vats; Cast: Mahinder Nath, Shardul Bhardwaj, Nutana Sinha, Sahsi Bhusan, Nitin Goel, Naina Sarffin; India 2019, 98 min. That well worn phrase "I don't know whether to laugh or...

WE ARE ONE GLOBAL FILM FESTIVAL In the light of unprecedented times for the international film industry We Are One: A Global Film Festival has been programmed to go ahead from May 29 until...

Docudrama | 114’ | Brazil/Portugal Brazilian cinema is entering a new era in the wake of the country's unprecedented political turmoil. Several new films are now available online along with this...

Dir.: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh; Cast: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Farida Rahouadj, Finnegan Oldfield; France 2020, 97 min. The world’s first Space traveller Yuri Gagarin gives his name to...

Dir.: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Miyazaki, Mansei Nomura, HisashiI Igawa, Peter, Masayuki Yui; France/Japan 1984/85, 162min. Director/co-writer Akira Kurosawa was seventy-five when he...

Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Teresa Harris, Sir Lancelot | USA Fantasy Drama 70'                                                 Jacques Tourneur was another master of shadow-play. It lends...

Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock; Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine; USA 1941, 100 min Suspicion rarely emerges as a Hitchcock favourite. Critics don't like writing about his 1941 feature, everyone opting for: Psycho, North...

Dresden 1918, Robert Siodmak left his upper-middle class, orthodox Jewish home in this epicentre of European modern art, to join a theatre touring company. He was 18, and this was...