Reviews

Writer/Dir: Chloe Zhao | Drama | 100min | US | 2017 Skilfully melding narrative and documentary film techniques, The Rider is set on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and follows...

Despite a new revisionist film history which tries to exonerate the Bergfilm sub-genre from its close connection with Fascist ideology, Weimar filmmakers and their fare reeked of German Fascism – and...

Dir.: David Cronenberg; Cast: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette; Canada 1996, 100 min. Crash certainly broke ground on its release in 1996. Cronenberg adapted the screen...

Dir/Wri: Jianjie Lin | Cast: Feng Zu, Ke-Yu Guo, Xilun Sun, Muran Lin | China, Thriller 99’ Beijing in post-one child policy China is the setting for this stylish but unnerving...

Dir.: Stanley Kubrick; Cast: Sue Lyon, James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers; UK/US 1961, 152 min. Vladimir Nabokov wrote a screenplay of 400 pages for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaption of his...

Dir: Francois Ozon | Cast: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasco, Ludivine Sagnier, Pierre Lottin, Garlan Erlos, Malik Zidi, Sophie Guillemin, Paul Beaurepaire, Sidki Bakaba | France, Drama 102’ Burgundy is a perfect...

Dir.: Tony Palmer; Cast: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith, Terence Rigby, Ronald Pickup, John Shrapnel, Robert Stephens; UK 1987/8, 151'. British director Tony Palmer (Bird on a Wire)...

Dir: Francois Ozon | Cast: Marina Vacth, Geraldine Paihas, Frederic Pierrot, Fantin Ravat | 95’  French with English subtitles   Drama Student prostitution has already come under the spotlight with dazzling...

Dir: Roy William Neill | Cast: Basil Rathbone, Miles Mandar, Evelyn Ankers | Drama, 1944, 69’ Possibly the most fondly recalled of Universal's Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Directed with his usual casual excellence...