Reviews

Director: Atiq Rahimi  Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere and Ariq Rahimi Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat 102min   Drama    FARSI with English subtitles This poetic follow-up to EARTH AND ASHES...

George Clooney Lost the Bet With the release of THE MONUMENTS MEN, Alex Barrett looks back at the Directing career of George Clooney  The story, such as it is, goes something...

Director: Roberto Ando Cast: Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Michela Cescon, Anna Bonaiuto 93min  Political comedy   Italian with subtitles Even if politics leaves you cold you will warm to Roberto Ando's imagined political comedy Viva...

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Director/Writer: Paul Wright Michael Smiley, George MacKay, Kate Dickie, Brian McCardie, Nichola Burley 92mins   UK Thriller This low budget britflic has a brilliant central performance from George MacKay who plays Aaron, a...

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014: RETROSPECTIVE “AESTHETICS OF SHADOW, LIGHTNING STYLES 1915-1950” The films of the German Expressionism of the twenties DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI, 1920), the more classical lightning of the...

(La Variabile Umana) Director  Bruno Oliviero Cast: Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Alice Raffaelli, Sandra Ceccarelli 83min  Crime Drama   Italian with English subtitles Bruno Oliviero's moody crime drama focuses on a police inspector whose life goes...

Alexei Balabanov Retrospective: Brother / Брат In celebration of late and great Alexei Balabanov, Russky London KinoKlub are running through the major works of one of Russia's most incredible and uncompromising cult directors...

Director/Writer: Aleksei Balabanov Cast: Sergei Bodrov Jr, Viktor Suhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko,  Mariya Zhukova,  Yuri Kuznetsov, Slava Butusov 93min   Crime Drama    Russian with subtitles Balabanov's light-hearted but caustically realistic BROTHER portrays gangster-ridden...