The Rise of Ryan Gosling Louise Burrell October 4, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Ryan Gosling is a tough actor to pin down. One moment he’s the silent, brooding leading man, and the next he’s tap-dancing his way through Hollywood and belting out a few songs on the way. While he may now...
Caught in a Trap: Blood Simple and the Coens’ Inescapable Cycle Rhys Handley October 3, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features It’s always weird going back to the beginning. So many great directors seem to arrive fully-formed, but that’s usually because by the time they break out and hit the spotlight, they already have a solid...
Short of the Week: Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 Kambole Campbell October 2, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ It's easy to be skeptical about the implications that an expanded Blade Runner universe has - the franchising of a film that basically screamed about the dangers...
Gender, Observation and the Fourth Wall in Sally Potter’s Orlando Sinead McCausland September 27, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Death. Love. Poetry. Politics. Society. Sex. Birth. These are the visual chapters of Sally Potter’s enchanting third feature Orlando. A loose adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel of the same name, the...
The Formative Years of Domhnall Gleeson Naomi Soanes September 26, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight You’d be forgiven for not knowing who Domhnall Gleeson is, or even for not knowing how to pronounce his name (it’s pronounced "Doe-nal", by the way). But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve to be a...
Short of the Week – Quand J’ai Remplacé Camille David Brake September 25, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/224657759 At One Room With A View, nothing excites us more than new talent. The thrilling prospect of discovering fresh, stimulating voices as they enter the world of film for the...
Scene Stealers: Peter O’Toole in Ratatouille Danielle Davenport September 20, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers This article is a One Room With A View first - the 'scene stealer' performance coming from an animated film, with Peter O'Toole's voice-acting rendition of Anton Ego. Ten years after the release of...
A Beginner’s Guide to… Colin Firth Carmen Paddock September 19, 2017 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features It is hard to name a more quintessentially British actor than Colin Firth. Playing almost exclusively (extremely) English characters and featuring heavily in historical pieces, the actor epitomises the class...
Short of the Week – Trespass Louise Burrell September 18, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/231710597 There have been plenty of films over the years that prove, time and again, that nothing good ever comes from a walk in the woods (at least not in the film...
Scene Stealers: Barbara Hershey in Black Swan Cristina Radulescu September 17, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Remembered mainly as the cinematic backdrop for Natalie Portman’s thespian crowning achievement, Black Swan is Aronofsky’s successful attempt at bestowing an Icarus twist on a classic tale, as he depicts...
Stories From The Set: Requiem for a Dream Thom Denson September 14, 2017 Features, Stories from the Set This weekend sees the release of Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, Mother!, a film in which the New York auteur torments his collaborative (and, to those of us not above the gossip columns, romantic) partner...
American Horror Story: Stephen King’s It and Bigotry Cathy Brennan September 13, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off In the run-up to the release of the latest Stephen King adaptation, It, Scott Wampler of Birth Movies Death would regularly upload a publicity still of Pennywise the Dancing Clown poking his head out of a...
Second Chance: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) Patrick Taylor September 12, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance A cursory look through the litany of reviews on its Rotten Tomatoes page will tell you that opinions on Darren Aronofsky's Noah are hardly ambivalent. And it would, admittedly, be wrong to deny that the film...
Short of the Week – The Heist Carmen Paddock September 11, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/230559377 Summer 2017 has seen two excellent heist films – Baby Driver and Logan Lucky – in cinemas, so it seems appropriate to celebrate a four-minute spoof of the genre. The...
Taylor Sheridan’s Tales of the Disenfranchised Kambole Campbell September 8, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Screenwriter and, as of recently, director Taylor Sheridan has carved out a niche for himself making tense crime sagas in various American landscapes, characterised by unflinching depictions of violence, razor...