Reviews

Fassbinder’s LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH | LIEBE IST KÄLTER ALS DER TOD made a low-key feature debut at Berlinale Film Festival in 1969, heralding the prolific career of one...

Dir: Waris Hussein | Writer: Alan Parker | Cast: Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Jack Wild | Drama | UK | 103min BAFTA Award-winning director Alan Parker started out as an advertising...

DIrector: Neeraj Ghaywan Writer: Varun Grover| Neeraj Ghaywan MASAAN enchants Un Certain Regard audiences with a painterly modern love story set in the holy city of Benares (Varanasi). With his co-writer Varun Grover, Ghaywan...

Dir: Georges Franju | French | Mystery | 92min SPOTLIGHT ON A MURDERER takes place in one of those quaint, quintessential French chateaux that you may have visited with its medieval...

Dir: Fred Peabody | 91min | Documentary | Canada It behoves a Canadian documentarian to make ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE a film that raises the timely issue of mass media control by...

FONTANE EFFI BRIEST Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel West Germany 1972/3, 141 min. When Rainer Werner Fassbinder embarked on his screen adaptation of Theodor Fontane’s novel Effi Briest...

Dir: Dan Kwan | Castaways: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe | Comedy | 97min | US It’s hard to work out why two decent actors would get involved in the tedious exercise...

Dir.: Juan Mejia Botero, Jake Kheel; Documentary; USA/Dominican Republic 2016, 75 min. Haiti and the Dominican Republic (DR) share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: they also share a long colonial past...

Director: Raoul Peck | Writers: Raoul Peck, James Baldwin | With Samuel L Jackson | 93min | US | Doc Black activist and writer James Baldwin once said: "Not everything that...