Reviews

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL this year is very much a female affair with women stars and directors set to feature heavily in the competition line-up. With Isabella Rossellini heading up the...

Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy returned to Locarno Film Festival again in 2014 as a jury member overseeing its Pardo di domani competition, having won a Silver Leopard there in 2012...

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts Comedy/Drama, US  119mins As festivals...

Writer| Director: Kenan Korkmaz Cast: Oyku Peksel, Sonya Akay, Yuhannun Akay, Selin Koseoglu, Ruhi Sari 97min  Drama   Turkish with English subs Kenan Korkmaz's second feature is a doomladen affair that follows two...

Cast: Joseph Cotton, Virginia Nicholson, Edgar Barrier, Arlene Francis, Mary Wickes US Silent Comedy At the 2013 Pordenone Film Festival a remarkable premiere took place. Orson Welles’s second film Too Much Johnson...

Director: Céline Sciamma Cast: Karidja Toure, Asse Sylla, Cyril Mendy, Idrissa Diabate France 2014, 113 min. After Water Lilies and Tomboy, GIRLHOOD is Céline Sciamma’s third portrait of female adolescence. The heroine Marieme...

PHARAOH (FARAON) took director Jerzy Kawalerowicz three years to finish in 1966. It was the most expensive Polish film ever made with a running time of 175 minutes, which seems...

Director: Ming-liang Tsai Cast: Shiang-chiyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi Cheng Lee, 138min  Drama GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER | VENICE 2013 Taiwan's building boom is displacing and disenfranchising the inhabitants of Taipei, who scratch around...

Director: Orson Welles  Writers: Anthony Veiller Cast: Loretta Young, Edward G Robinson, Orson Welles, Richard Long, Philip Merivale, Martha Wentworth 95min   Film Noir   US Based on Victor Travias' Oscar nominated original...