Reviews

Dir|Writer: Iram Haq | Cast: Adil Hussain, Maria Mozhdah, Ekavali Khanna, Rohit Saraf  | Norwegian/Urdu | 106' | Drama  Actor/director Iram Haq's impressive sophomore title WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY plays out as...

Dir: Valentin wolrd Hitz; Cast: Clemens Schick; Lena Lanzemis, Marion Mitterhammer, Daniel Olbrychski; Austria/Germany/Switzerland 2016, 96' HIDDEN RESERVES sees Vienna 2033 as a frightening dystopian landscape where even dying is not...

Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky influenced many contemporary filmmakers, amongst them Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Steven Soderbergh and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. All seven of Tarkovsky’s features including MIRROR (1975), SOLARIS (1972),...

Dir.: Abraham Polonsky; Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Howland Chamberlain; USA 1948, 78’ Director/co-writer Abraham Polonsky’s stylish noir thriller is a critique of capitalism and...

Dir: Joshua Z Weinstein |Documentary | USA / Israel | Yiddish, English | 81 min · Colour There's a faint but unintentional whiff of Woody Allen to Joshua Weinstein's sorrowful cinema verite portrait of a...

THE GREEN RAY | Dir.: Eric Rohmer | Cast: Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Carita, Lisa Heredia, Vincent Gauthier | France 1986, 98' Eric Rohmer's didactic approach he always brings to filmmaking is present...

Dir: Takashi Miike | Writers: Hiroaki Samura, Tetsuya Oishi | Action Thriller | Japan | 140' Seasoned manga director Takashi Miike seems to be live forever like his hero Manji played...

Bluray releases to celebrate the artistically ambitious cinema of independent filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) in his centenary year. France in the 1940s and 50s is seen as a broken nation, where male solidarity...

Dir.: Jessica Gorter; Documentary; Netherlands 2017, 90 min. Nearly 65 years after the death of Joseph Stalin, director/co-writer Jessica Gorter (900 Days) asks citizen of the Russian Federation the question if...