Reviews

WINTER SLEEP ***** Palme D'Or | Cannes | 2014 Sumptuously set in a mountain village in his beloved Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's arthouse character study enters the slow-burn orbit of loquacious...

NICEJE DETE/NO ONE’S CHILD Dir.: Vuk Rsumovic Cast: Denis Muric, Pavle Cemerikic, Milos Timotijevic, Isidora Jankovic Croatia 2014, 96 min. Drama  Serbian with subtitles Based on true events, Vuk Rsumovic’ debut feature NO ONE’S...

Dir.: Kenneth Elvebakk Documentary; Norway 2014, 75 min. In this documentary equivalent to Billy Elliott, Kenneth Elvebakk explores the experience of three teenagers who follow their dream in Norway. Lukas, Syvert and...

Writer/Director: Steven Knight Cast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Tom Holland, Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels 85mins   UK    Thriller Steve Knight's one-handed 'driving seat drama' never feels claustrophobic although all the...

THE WIND RISES Director/Writer: Miyazaki Hayao Voices of: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci 126min  Japanese Anime  Wartime Drama         Another enchanting piece of Japanese...

Dir.: Al Pacino; Cast: Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, Roxane Hart, Kevin Anderson, Benoit Delhomme, Estelle Parsons USA 2011, 95 min. Documentary Fifteen years after "Looking for Richard"  Al Pacino is looking to become...

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...