Reviews

Director/Writer: Elaine Constantine Steve Coogan, Antonia Thomas, Elliot James Langridge, Jack Gordon, Lisa Stansfield, Ricky Tomlinson 102min   UK     Drama/music I remember the Seventies, and so does photographer turned director Elaine...

Dir.: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry Belgium/France/Italy 2014, 95 min. The Dardennes brothers began their filmmaking activities in the late seventies and have hugged the...

Dir.: Ivano de Matteo Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio, Barbara Bobulova Italian with subtitles, Drama, 92 min. Two brothers, Massimo (Gassman), a doctor and Paolo (Cascio), a glib lawyer, meet...

Dir.: Jason Sassberg, David Alvarado; Documentary; USA 2014, 80 min. Finding a cure for dying; making humankind immortal: these medical solutions may be not around the corner, one reckons on about...

Dir.: Chinag Hsiu Chiung; Cast: Hiromi Nagasaku, Nozomi Sasaki; Japan/ Taiwan2014,118 min. This simple (but never simplistic) film is a story of solidarity between three very different women. An impressive cast and...

Dir.: Peter Ho-Sun Chan; Cast: Huang Bo, Zhao Wei, Hao Dei; China/Hong Kong 2014, 130 min. China’s social woes have been evoked by many films of late. This years Berlinale winner...

Dir.: Sophie Barthes; Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes UK/Belgium, 118 min. Few would argue that Claude Chabrol’s 1991 version of Madame Bovary is the definitive film...

THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC: Dir.: Wim Wenders; THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA: Dir.: Michael Glawogger; HALDEN PRISON: Dir.: Michael Madsen; THE SALK INSTITUTE: Dir.: Robert Redford; THE OSLO OPERA HOUSE: Dir.:...

Director:/Writer  Bent Hamer Magne-Havard Brekke, Per Christian Ellefsen, Laurent Stocker, Peter Hudson, Stein Winge 93min  Comedy drama   Norway An adult male's cremated ashes weigh roughly 1000 grams. But how do you REALLY...