Reviews

Dir: José Ferrer | US drama 97' Based on a true story and a book by George Kent, US filmmaker José Ferrer directs and stars in this popular and quintessentially British...

Jean Cocteau – poet, playwright, novelist, designer, visual artist and one of the avant-garde movement’s most inventive and influential filmmakers was born in 1889, and grew up in Paris, immersed...

Dir.: Sophie Hyde; Cast: Holiday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermont Murphy, Amy Molloy, Dermont Murphy; UK/Australia/ROI 2019, 109 min. In her sophomore feature Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays) directs Emma-Jane...

Dir.: Richard Miron; Documentary with Kathy Murphy, Gary Murphy, Sheila Hyslop; USA 2019, 92 min. Over five years in the making, Richard Miron’s debut documentary is an astonishing portrait of a...

Dir/Writers| Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon | Cast: Shico Menegat, Bruno Fernandes, Guega Peixoto, Sandra Dani, Frederico Vasques, Denis Gosh, Camila Falcao, Aurea Baptista, Larissa Sanguine, Ze Adao Barbosa Contrary to its flamboyant...

Dir: Park Chan-Wook | South Korea 120' Many found Korean cult horror outing ‘Sympathy for Mr Vengeance’ too violent, but Oldboy takes the Asian Extreme genre even further. Don’t be misled into...

Dir.: Krzysztof Kieslowski; Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzyztof Globisz | Poland 1988, 84 min. So powerful was the effect of Krzysztof Kieslowski's graphic description of violence in eighties Warsaw that the Polish authorities...

The 76th Venice Classics strand is always special - a selection of the best restorations carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. This...

Dir: Jean Becker | Wri Sébastien Japrisot | Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève, Michel Galabru, François Cluzet, Edith Scob | France 133’ Isabelle Adjani plays a sensual...