Reviews

This year the Viennale are screening a retrospective of American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who comes from roughly the same stable as Chris Marker and Jonas Mekas in his style and...

Dir/Wri| Adam Elliot | With the voices of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Jackie Weaver | Australia 90’ This delightful Australian anime is an endearing sob story seen from a woman’s...

Dir: Maurice Tourneur | Writer: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Cast: Pierre Frenay, Josseline Gaël | Fantasy Horror | France 78' Jean Cocteau was not the only French director making wartime fantasy...

Wri/Dir: Marielle Heller | Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden, Emmett Snowden, Jessica Harper | US 98' Amy Adams’ character in Nightbitch is a stay-at-home mum, looking after a planned...

Dir: Michele Placido | 
Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Federica Luna Vincenti, Giancarlo Commare, Aurora Giovinazzo, Michelangelo Placido, Ute Lemper | Italy, Drama Ute Lemper, Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Valeria Bruni...

This year's Viennale Film Festival pays tribute to Vienna's homegrown star, the actress Helene Thimig, born in Austria when it was still Austria-Hungary.   Helene Thimig (1889-1974), a member of a well‐known Viennese...

Dir: Tony Scott. | Dir: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young | Horror 97’ Although this glossy adaptation of Whitley Streiber's novel was originally greeted with raspberries posterity...

Dir: Yasuzo Masumura | Japan, Drama 1964 Manji was screened in the reduced but vital archive section of this year's BFI London Film Festival and received a masterly well informed, passionate introduction...

Dir: Ardak Amirkulov | Kazakhstan Drama 98' ThIs haunting and atmospherically shot arthouse drama imagines the steppes of Kazakhstan during the deadly Soviet regime of collectivisation when it was claimed that...