Reviews

Dir: Paul Cox | Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan | Australia Drama 93’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten One of only two films I've ever watched on video that...

Dir: Ira Sachs. 2025. 76 mins. 2025 Reviewed by Peter Herbert Peter Hujar’s Day continues director Ira Sachs’ adventures in film style, form and genre with a filmed recreation of rediscovered tapes...

Director: Vladlena Sandu  | Autobiographical drama, hybrid documentary Memory is an autobiographical drama directed by Vladlena Sandu creating a visual memory of her childhood in Chechnya during the war. The film...

Dir: Thorold Dickinson | Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wyngard, Frank Pettingell | UK thriller Reviewed by Richard Chatten Although long overlooked in favour of MGM's lavish Hollywood version Thorold Dickinson's earlier British...

Dir: Werner Herzog. USA. 2025. 99’ In his latest film Werner Herzog travels to the far reaches of Africa in search of the legendary giant elephants of the Angolan highlands. Ghost Elephants...

Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria Doc 78’ Lights blinking like a ghostly tardis from outer space a snowplow moves silently through a mysterious white landscape. A man stands outside his house...

Dir: Céline Sciamma | Adèle Haenel, Noemie Merlant | Drama, France 120' Heading up this series Bfi series on melodramas is  Céline Sciamma's fourth feature, an enigmatic and delicate film that glows...

Dir: Francois Ozon | France 2025 112’ Reviewed by Peter Herbert  THE STRANGER is amongst French auteur Francois Ozon’s most uncompromising work, embracing the demands of a literary French classic with the...

Dir: Katharina Kastner | Doc, Belg/France/Ger/ 25' Katerina Kastner's impressionistic documentary debut captures the essence of the Villa Empain, one of the most beautiful architectural masterpieces of Art Deco in Brussels....