Reviews

Director: Erik Skoldbjaerg Writer: Nikolaj Frobenius and others Cast: Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Aksel Hennie, Jonathan LaPaglia, Jorgen Langhelle, Andre Eriksen 111 min  Thriller  Norway Erik Skoldbjaerg - best known for Insomnia (1997) delves back...

Director: Patrice Leconte Writer: Patrice Leconte With its Belle Epoque overtones and hauntingly romantic retro feel A PROMISE is set in a German industrial town before the Great War. It stars Alan...

Despite recent successes for Hungarian indie film - the future looks uncertain - Andre Simonoveisz explores the reasons why: Hungarian cinema has been arthouse-orientated since the mid-seventies when the reformist/revisionist Hungarian...

Dir.: Scott Michell; Cast: Danny Horn, Charity Wakefield, Shaun Dingwall UK 2014, 102 min. Luke, an ordinary bloke, wakes up one morning and finds a mutilated corpse in his bathroom. He soon teams...

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL ****   SILVER BEAR, GRAND JURY PRIZE Writer/Director: Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness Cast: Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric,  Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum,...

  Director: David Gordon Green Writer: Gary Hawkins Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Adrien Mishler US Southern Gothic Drama In Joe, David Gordon Green's bleak exploration of a macho community in hicksville,...

Dir.: Marc Silver; Documentary with Gael Garcia Bernal; UK/Mexico 2013, 85 min. In August 2010 a male body was discovered in the Sonora desert in Arizona. No clues to the identity...

Director: Michael Noer Writers: Michael Noer, Rasmus Heisterberg Cast: Gustav Dyekjaer Giese, Oscar Dyekjaer Giese, Julifi Al-Jaburi, Roland Moller, Lena Maria Christensen 91min  Danish with subtitles   Crime Drama Michael Noer explores the criminal...

Director: Seijun Suzuki Cast: Jo Shishido, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Koji Nanbara Japan, 1967, 98 min. Born in 1923, Suzuki, albeit a B-picture director, has found a great following in Europe particularly in...