Author Liz Gorny

Ali Abbasi’s Border is a strange breed of film, much like its protagonist, Tina (Eva Melander) – a border control officer with a bizarre ability to smell illegal activity. Abbasi reimagines a short...

"I am who?” Tima, the child robot of Rintaro's Metropolis (2001), asks just before she plunges from the edge of a high-rise tower and Metropolis collapses around her. She is parroting the first words ever...

This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 15/10/2018. Though David Lowery's A Ghost Story and his new The Old Man & the Gun are wholly different films, Lowery...

With Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda tackles his most complex family unit to date: an impoverished, patchwork household who are biologically unrelated. Only occasionally featuring shoplifting, the film's title...

The jaw-dropping moment of digital wizardry in They Shall Not Grow Old as 100-year-old footage is flooded with colour is reason enough to crown it one of this year’s most exciting films. The shock of this...

It is hard to imagine many dramas as devastating as Lila Avilés’ sublimely understated The Chambermaid, an extraordinary study into the daily disappointments and silent struggles of a chambermaid working...

The jaw-dropping moment of digital wizardry in They Shall Not Grow Old as 100-year-old footage is flooded with colour is reason enough to crown it one of this year’s most exciting films. The shock of this...

Much like Scottie's consuming obsession in Vertigo, its hyperactive cousin, The Green Fog, is a labour of love. Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson use San Francisco-based film and television...

How do you make art didactic? And, if you can, can it prevent history from repeating itself? Radu Jude's "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" tackles these questions alongside a heavier task:...

"We are all stardust" is the shiny, pseudo-metaphysical mantra of Carol Morley's Out of Blue, a phrase rendered meaningless when tacked onto this crime drama. The cosmos, dark matter, stardust, and parallel...

Though David Lowery's A Ghost Story and his new The Old Man & the Gun are wholly different films, Lowery has returned to an exploration of what he began in the first: our time on Earth and how we spend...

Ali Abbasi’s Border is a strange breed of film, much like its protagonist, Tina (Eva Melander) – a border control officer with a bizarre ability to smell illegal activity. Abbasi reimagines a short story...