Reviews

Dir: Mel Brooks | Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Estelle Winwood | US Comedy | 90' Mel Brooks' debut feature is a flagrant  New York Jewish comedy so gross it is...

Dir.: Xavier Giannoli; Cast: Vincent Lindon, Galatea Bellugi, Patrick d’Assumcao, Anatole Taubman; France 2018, 144 min. In his follow-up to Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli again bites off rather more than he can...

Dir: Denis Dercourt | Cast: Cecile de France, Albert Dupontel | France | Drama | 82’ Two magnetic performances (not to mention a great supporting act from stallion Othello) make this...

Dir: Marcelo Martinessi | Cast: Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Ana Brun Paraguayan actress Ana Brun won a Silver Bear for her dignified portrait of loss and loneliness in Marcelo Martinessi’s finely-tuned...

Dir: Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo | Cast: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison, Reginald Marsh, Derek Milburn | Drama | UK | 93' Made on a shoestring budget - and none the...

Dir/scr: Felix Randau. Germany/Italy/Austria. 2017. 97 mins Felix Randau opts for a rather unimaginative approach in this imagined drama about the final days of Alpine warrior Otzi, whose perfectly preserved body...

Dir/Writer: Peter Stephan Jungk | Doc | Austria 2016 | 91 min. Based on his non-fiction book Die Dunkelkammern der Edith Tudor-Hart (The Dark Rooms of Edith Tudor-Hart), Peter Stephan Jungk...

Dir.: John Frankenheimer; Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Edmund O’Brien, Betty Field, Telly Savalas; US 1962, 147 min. Director John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) came from a TV background and retains...

Open City Documentary Festival is back this Autumn for the eighth year running with a dynamic new programme celebrating documentary and non-fiction filmmaking taking place  from the 4th - 9th September...