Reviews

Dir: Vitaly Mansky | 112min | Documentary | Ukraine | Russia Chatting to his mother in the opening scenes of RODNYE, Ukrainian director Vitaly Mansky (Pipeline) discovers for the first time that...

Dir/Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Chihiro Ikeda based on a novel by Yutaka Maekawa | Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide | 130min | Japan | Fantasy...

Dir: Damien Chazelle : Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone | US | Musical Drama | 129min The 73rd Venice Film Festival opened with the razzmatazz of a rousing Hollywood musical, that...

Writer/Director Fabián Bielinsky Cast: Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandro Awada, Pablo Cedrón, Jorge D'Elia, Manuel Rodal, Rafael Castejón, Walter Reyno, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart Argentina-Spain-France / Drama / 134mins El Aura (The Aura) was...

Dir.: Sam Peckinpah |  Cast: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Emilio Fernandez, Janine Maldonado | USA/Mexico | 112 min. Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) brought us Straw...

Dir.: Pablo Larrain; Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Max Castella, John Hurt; USA/Chile 2016, 91 min. Director Pablo Larrain (Neruda) films Noah Oppenheim’s intricate script of JACKIE, covering four...

Martin Scorsese: An Alternative Top Five  To celebrate the release of Martin Scorsese's new film, SILENCE and the BFI's current Retrospective, ALex Barrett explores some of the director's lesser-known past gems.  It...

Dir.: Michael Caton-Jones; Cast: Shirley Henderson, Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland, Ian Hart; UK 2015, 114 min. Director Michael Caton-Jones has returned to serious filmmaking after his disastrous Basic Instinct 2 (2006)....

Dir.: Lewis Milestone | Cast: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton | Drama | 101 min. Lewis Milestone directed the first film version of the play by Ben...