May 14, 2015
Director: Andrew Cividino
89min Canadian Drama
Andrew Cividino lampoons and laments the male of the species in his piquant and delightfully-observed rites of passage debut feature, SLEEPING GIANT. Making great use of...
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May 13, 2015
Dir.: Debbie Tucker Green; Cast: Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai Francis Lewis; UK 2014, 105 min.
First time writer/director Debbie Tucker Green, a successful playwright and theatre director, is asking the...
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May 13, 2015
DIRECTOR: Emmanuelle Bercot, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier, Rod Paradot, Diane Rouxel, Aurore Broutin
120min French Drama
Actress and filmmaker, Emmanuelle Bercot, delivers a thorny and morally complex dramady to open Cannes Film...
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May 12, 2015
Dir.: Miguel Gomes; Cast: Christa Alfaiate, Chico Chapas, Americo Silva, Portugal/France/Germany/Switzerland 2015, 125 min.
In part of three of his trilogy Arabian Nights, titled The Enchanted One, Portuguese writer/director Miguel Gomes...
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May 12, 2015
Director: Xavier Dolan
Cast: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard
139min Drama Canadian/French
The prolific outpourings of Canadian wild child Xavier Dolan continue here with a searingly emotional mother/son melodrama that...
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May 10, 2015
Dir.: Samantha Fuller
Documentary with Jennifer Beals, Wim Wenders, Monte Hellman, Constance Towers
USA 2013 , 80 min.
Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) was a true maverick, which is not only reflected in the 24...
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May 10, 2015
AUSTERIA (THE INN, 1983) is set in the Galician (now Polish) border with Russia in the first days of World War I. Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s film of the novel of the...
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May 10, 2015
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...
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May 9, 2015
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...
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