Author Carmen Paddock

Erich Maria Remarque’s seminal World War I novel got the early Hollywood treatment almost as soon as it was published in 1929. The 1930 American film is overblown and melodramatic, and Edward Berger returns...

Liquor Store Dreams is the rare family-focused documentary that could be longer; compressing two family histories - not to mention a sociological, geopolitical history of South Central Los Angeles - into...

Chinonye Chukwu’s sophomore feature is dogged by the same questions facing historical dramas: why dramatise a known story, and why tell it now? Till faces a heightened hurdle by recounting the circumstances...

Not many people thrive in almost-constant isolation, but Zoe Lucas has been captivated by the ecology of Sable Island, off the Nova Scotia coast, since her youth. She is now its only full-time inhabitant and...

Few twentieth century film industry professionals can boast a career as storied or influential as Sidney Poitier - the quality and significance of his work on screen as an actor, behind the scenes as director,...

Throughout the career of pop legend David Bowie - especially as he burst onto the scene as alter ego Ziggy Stardust - the question of personal and artistic identity was at the fore of his publicity. Brett...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Alice Diop’s latest documentary captures life in the Paris suburbs, meandering between characters, vignettes, and...

Any film about filmmaking runs the risk of counterproductive nostalgia - from the earliest days of cinema, singing the chosen artform’s praises has not always resulted in the most effective, critical, or...

Life and motion bubble throughout Kiro Russo’s unflinching glimpse into the lives of La Paz’s most impoverished. Filmed on 16mm in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and throughout recent upheaval in...

Chema García Ibarra’s film opens with a young girl reading off cards for a school presentation - all normal, until she declares that the unbaptised will have their organs stolen. She is revealed to be the...

The luthier’s craft can seem one from another age, the archaic title passed down despite evolving instruments and musical styles. In today’s music industry, Reuben Cox is one of the most respected makers...

Halfway through Zero Fucks Given, the tale of a budget airline flight attendant and her colleagues, the team are taken out for a coaching day. Here, they run emergency and first aid drills over and over,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2022 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Harry Wootliff’s sophomore feature is poised between erotic psychodrama and thoroughly British kitchen sink...

In 2016, 40 years after London’s punk scene took off, John Corré burned £5 million worth of memorabilia - largely from the collections of his parents Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, who owned the...

Elie Grappe’s sports and politics drama, set against the 2013-2014 Maidan Uprising, skilfully captures societal unrest through the eyes of a youngster with ambitions she tries - and fails - to separate from...