Reviews

London hosts KINOTEKA Film Festival for the 16th year running. This year celebrates 100 years of Polish independence with the latest cutting edge cinema and some lesser known archival gems...

Writer/Dir:Dan Gilroy | Jake Gyllenhaal Bill Paxton, Sharon Tay | US Thriller | 118' When Nightcrawler was released in 2014 it proved popular with both audiences and critics. It did well...

Dir.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmund O’Brien, Warren Stevens; Rosanno Brazzi; USA 1954, 128 min. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who had won an Oscar for his 1950 Hollywood...

Dir: Qaushiq Mukherjee | Cast: Tanmay Dhanania, Trimala Adhikari, Satarupa Das, Gitanjali Dang, Shruti Viswan, Satchit Puranik | Drama | India | 105' | World premiere Bengali director Q, best known for Gandu,...

Dir.: Tarik Saleh; Cast: Fares Fares, Maher Kamal, Mari Malek, Ahmd Selim, Hania Amar; Sweden/Denmark/France/Germany 2017, 106 min. Pre-revolution 2011 and Egypt is a place of corruption, greed and violence -...

Dir.: Paolo Taviani; Cast: Luca Marinelli, Valentina Belle, Lorenzo Richelmy, Anna Ferruzzo; Italy/France 2017, 84 min. In Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s elegant historical drama, a doomed love-triangle, gets caught up in...

CINEMA MADE IN ITALY returns to London’s Ciné Lumière, showcasing the latest releases from Italy complete with film-maker Q&A sessions. This year's line-up includes eight new Italian films and a...

Wri/Dir: Martin Šulík | DoP: Martin Štrba | German, Slovak, 113' | Cast: Peter Simonischek, Jiří Menzel, Zuzana Mauréry, Anita Szvrcsek, Anna Rakovská, Eva Kramerová, Réka Derzsi, Attila Mokos, Karol Šimon, Igor...

Dir: Stephen Nomura Schible | Doc | USA, Japan 2018 | Without dialogue, 65 min In April 2017 Japanese composer, pianist and music producer Ryūichi Sakamoto made a guest appearance for two evenings...