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Wes Anderson is a fascinating phenomenon. Having plugged away as a more or less cult director for some time, his films are becoming increasingly popular amongst wider and wider audiences. To achieve this,...

Ten, nine, eight, seven... Every year has its fill of "must see" films, with dramatic classics and bash-'em-up blockbusters vying for our attention and our money. One Room With A View's Top 20 Films of 2014...

Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga, Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga. The sound of a generation. It’s ironic how the fabulous iconic score of John Williams' Star Wars, with its massive brass orchestral pieces, is now dwarfed...

“Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologise to you for." Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix)'s closing missive is a love letter to lives once lived, the final...

“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” From the opening line, Gone Girl opens its stall to become a fascinating vivisection of marriage, a...

So here we go. Based on UK release dates, the team at One Room With A View have voted, and we can now reveal our Top 20 Films of 2014. What a great year of film it has been. X-Men: Days of Future Past...

90 minutes in a box. That is one way to describe Buried, directed by Rodrigo Cortes and starring the much-maligned Ryan Reynolds. As the title implies, the film centres upon Paul (Ryan Reynolds), a US...

How often is it that a pair of the world’s most fêted and adored talents put their minds together to create a film? There are some great examples dotted throughout cinematic history – Ford & Wayne,...

https://vimeo.com/62596239 Evan Vierra’s ethereal 2012 piece, Caldera, expertly explores the seemingly unliveable space between fantasy and actuality. Having witnessed firsthand his father’s own...

Christmas is without doubt a charming time of year, but it is fair to say, certainly in the Western world, that it has grown into a somewhat superficial one also, and the festive season usually brings out the...

For evidence of the enduring popularity of ‘80s screen stories one need look no further than the recent plethora of remakes like Fame and Footloose, and West End musical adaptations such as Back to the...

Mike Newell’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a trial and its two hours have sticky minutes. Certainly I am unable to watch it all in one sitting; it feels like a lifetime. Perhaps this was intentional in...

http://vimeo.com/13776542 Eran Hilleli's graduation film from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is said to be 'a debt to my childhood, and other lives I hoped I lived.' Hilleli's clean, simple, and...

A mockumentary by the undisputed master of the genre, Christopher Guest (of This Is Spinal Tap fame), Best In Show follows five pairs of owners and handlers of dogs competing in the prestigious Mayflower...

“Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.” Katharine Hepburn: spirited, independent, sharp, one-of-a-kind… a cinema legend. With a career spanning...