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Miyazaki who? Upon the 2013 retirement of visionary director and Studio Ghibli head honcho Hayao Miyazaki, filmgoers could have been forgiven for wondering whether the impossibly high standards the studio...

https://vimeo.com/120893601 Me & You uses the not entirely original gimmick of a single vantage point and has a somewhat predictable storyline which sticks firmly within gender stereotypes. But...

Cast your eye over the listings at your local cinema and chances are you’ll spot something which looks a bit out of place. Over the last couple of years, live transmissions of theatre productions and operas...

Unless you've recently been binge-watching all of the hot messes involved in Hollywood's Annual Grand Carnival of Self-Congratulation (aka the Oscars), subsequently rendering you incapable of seeing real...

The names of Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi are synonymous with the iconic Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli; that of award-winning director Isao Takahata, however, is one less known and more often...

          Oh Jason Statham, with your bonce like an angry deodorant, gritting your teeth as you battle on with your contractually obliged five o’clock shadow,...

For anyone over the age of 21, the recent cinematic trend of adapting dystopian fiction seems a little baffling. Taking a look at the abusive vampire flicks and cancer-based teen dramas we’re used to seeing...

It is time for an Academy Award category that acknowledges the work of stunt professionals. They have been a crucial feature of cinema, instilling shock and awe into audiences since the early 1900s, and they...

Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know could perhaps best be described as the indie version of Love Actually; it too uses small, interconnecting stories to capture a moment in time. But, unlike Love...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFh5LbTPI4 Produced to accompany his recent novel Consumed, Cronenberg’s The Nest stands alone as an effective miniature thesis on destructive obsession. It observes the...

Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Oscar-nominated Israeli animated documentary written and directed by Ari Folman. The film follows the director in his search to clarify to himself his role during the 1982 Lebanon...

Celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has recorded twenty two albums in a career spanning more than forty years and ranging across the genres of folk, jazz, and pop. She’s even been named...

Here at One Room With A View we’ve been lucky enough to catch some of the best films being made before they hit cinema screens across the UK. But sometimes these festival gems struggle to find distribution,...

https://vimeo.com/120340284 To the beat of a metronome, Taylor Engel's The Pavement unravels. Revelling in its noir roots, the short excels thanks to a narrative that plays to the strength of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBIK3Oau4mY The toss of a coin, a locked door, (un)lucky timing: in 16 short minutes The Window plays out the consequences, intended and unforeseen, as seemingly...