Author Patrick Nabarro

On paper, the credentials for The Unforgivable must have seemed promising. It had been adapted from Sally Wainwright's generally well-received British TV series, Unforgiven, from 2009, it featured a scenario...

It’s no coincidence that Tenet will likely be the film leading the charge back into cinemas this summer. Its director, Christopher Nolan, is a staunch defender of the cinematic experience, and perhaps the...

This intelligent and lucid documentary by Aya Koretzky functions as somewhat of a straightforward re-telling of her father’s seminal round the world trip of 1970-71, while also being a commentary on that...

In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. Here, Patrick catches up on 1946's The Stranger. Perhaps lesser known among Orson Welles’ stellar run of...

Expect Ben Whishaw to be a familiar face on our cinema screens this year. He’s just appeared as the villainous Uriah Heep in Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, he’s reprising Q...

As he closes out his fourth decade directing feature films with the UK release of Pain and Glory - his twenty-first feature - this week, it feels an opportune moment to reflect on the virtuoso career of...

Tim Burton returns this weekend with his 19th feature film as director: a live-action version of Dumbo. While the lingering fascination with his films, and the cultural lure of a reimagined Disney gem like...

The common access points to Bruno Ganz for many Anglo-American commentators seem to be his iconic performances in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (2014). While those are...

https://vimeo.com/243452948 Often short films can feel gimmicky – little more than directorial calling-cards centred around singular visual conceits. Polish-Australian filmmaker Bianca Lucas, whose Before...

If we include the about-to-be-released Roma, Alfonso Cuarón has only directed eight feature films across a near 30-year career. The reason for this relative slimness of output is likely to have many factors...

“Are we losing interest in everyday life?” says one young librarian to another in Kogonada’s superb Columbus – one of the finest films to hit UK cinemas this year. The comment comes at the end of an...

Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Cold War, has become one of the world’s top contemporary auteurs almost by stealth. He’s not a filmmaker who...

Juliette Binoche. The name alone brings connotations of a very particular brand of imperious arthouse cinema. Seeing it in the opening credits is a near guarantor of a cerebral viewing experience; a patent by...

To younger audiences, Todd Haynes is probably better known for his Bob Dylan experimental tribute, I’m Not There (2007) and exquisite romantic melodrama, Carol (2015). In the early years of the new...

You Were Never Really Here, only Lynne Ramsay’s fourth feature film as director, comes nearly 20 years after the sensation of her debut release, Ratcatcher (1999). That trickle of productivity has its...