Reviews

Ferrari: Race to Immortality (2017)
Nov 2, 2017
DIR: Daryl Goodrich | Doc | Sport |  Don't be put off by the title of this stylish and highly entertaining film about the daredevil racing drivers of the 1950s. Anyone...
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Love and Bullets (2017) | Pingyao Film Festival | Year Zero 2017
Nov 2, 2017
Dirs: The Manetti Bros | Cast: Claudia Gerini, Carlo Buccirosso, Serena Rossi, Giampaolo Morelli, Luciana De Falco, Mario Rivelli | Musical Romance | 133' | Italy Naples meets Brooklyn in this...
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A Fish out of Water (2017) | Pingyao Film Festival | Year Zero 2017
Nov 1, 2017
Dir: Lai Kuo-An | Cast: Runyin Bfi, Jen Shuo Cheng, Peggy, Tseng, | China | 90' A young family on a beach in the midst of a crisis discover a beached...
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Mr Emmanuel (1944) | UKJFF 2017
Nov 1, 2017
Dir.: Harold French | Cast: Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla, Peter Mullins; UK 1944 | 97' Director Harold French, mostly remembered for his atmospheric Simenon adaption The Man who watched...
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Revolution: New Art for a New World (2016)
Nov 1, 2017
Dir: Margy Kinmonth. With the voices of Daisy Bevan, Tom Hollander, Sean Cronin, Matthew Macfadyen, Eleanor Tomlinson | Documentary | UK | 85min Bafta-nomimnated documentarian Margy Kinmonth (Hermitage Revealed) provides a...
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BFI Gloria Grahame Retrospective | Film Noir | Nov/Dec 2017
Nov 1, 2017
[caption id="attachment_45775" align="alignleft" width="229"] null[/caption] This Winter the BFI are celebrating the life of screen siren GLORIA GRAHAME with a retrospective of a smouldering film career showcasing her talents - usually...
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Ash (2017) | Pingyao International Film Festival | Year Zero
Oct 31, 2017
Director: Li Xiaofeng | Cast: Luo Jin, Xin Peng, Nie Yuan, Jiang Peiyao, Huang Jue, Yang Yiwei, Sun Hao, Director and co-writer Li Xiaofeng improves on his thoughtful but flawed debut Nezha...
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The First Lap (2017) | London Korean Film Festival 2017
Oct 31, 2017
Dir: Kim Dae-wan Kim Dae-hwan follows End of Winter with a slim and slowing-moving domestic character-driven piece that had its international premiere in the Filmmaker of the Present competition in Locarno 2017. Ji-young...
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Pingyao Impressions Theatre | Pingyao Film Festival 2017
Oct 31, 2017
Imagine London’s Tate Modern museum. Then imagine it three times larger and you have Pingyao’s brand new theatre building designed by an architect schoolfriend of the Chinese independent filmmaker Jia...
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