Reviews

The Postman’s White Nights (Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna) Director: Andrei Konchalovsky Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko Russia, 110 mins, Drama Just when it appeared that the Venice film festival was winding up...

Director: Slawomir Fabicki Julia Kijowska, Marcin Dorocinski, Adam Woronowicz Truth is often stranger than fiction and although the premise of this intimate Polish drama based on real life events in the city...

Red Amnesia (Chuangru zhe) Director: Wang Xiaoshuai Lü Zhong, Feng Yuanzheng, Amanda Qin, Qin Hao, Shi Liu China, 115 mins China’s past weighs heavily on the characters of Red Amnesia, Wang Xiaoshuai’s slow burning...

Director: Frank Pavich With Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Winding Refyn, Michel Seydoux, Brontis Jodorowsky 88min   France     Documentary Frank Herbert's 'Dune' is reputed to be the most awe-inspiring science-fiction novel ever; even...

Dir.: Daniel Schlechter Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Mos Def (as Yasiin Bey), John Hawkes, Will Forte USA 2013, 94 min. Based on the novel The Switch (1967) by Elmore Leonard,...

LE DERNIER COUP DE MARTEAU (The Third Hammer Blow) Dir.: Alix Delaporte Cast: Clotilde Hesme, Romain Paul, Gregory Gadebois France 2014, 82 min. Set in Montpellier, Delaporte's simple narrative (Angel and Tony) centres on a...

Directors: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky Writer: Jennifer Baichwal Documentary 92min  Canada Regular collaborators Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky made the environmental documentary Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and get together again here to produce...

Dir: Lenny Abrahamson  Writers: Jon Ronson and Peter Staughan Cast: Domnhall Gleeson, Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy 94mins UK  Drama Based in his native Dublin, Lenny Abrahamson's latest film was inspired by...

Director: Mario Martone Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Isabella Ragonese, Elio Germano, Michele Riondino 137mins  Drama Biopic  Italian with English subtitles Mario Martone (Amore Molesto) takes on the crippled 18th Century literarary genius, Giacome Leopardi,...