Tagged Berlinale 2017

What makes good art? What is good art? What is art? Perhaps these questions shouldn’t even be asked. After all: one man's rubbish is another’s treasure, and isn't beauty in the eye of the...

Perhaps only sitting in a freezing igloo where, instead of perfect blocks of ice, long thin steely icicles provide just enough contact with the outer world recreates the feeling of Berlin Syndrome. The...

"White is a metaphor for power". From its opening credits to the close, viewers of I Am Not Your Negro would be forgiven for feeling like being at the end of an LAPD police baton; mercilessly and repeatedly...

The modern world has shrunk to a claustrophobic size – we can carry most of it around in our pockets. Countries have continued to magnetise, shackling themselves to one another with political, social, and...

On the Beach at Night Alone is an essay on feelings, their consequences and complications. It proves that even a dying fire still has the ability to scorch. We meet Youngee, a seemingly popular actress, just...

“Right or wrong, it’s a brand,” Alan Ladd’s Shane philosophises in the western which bears his name. “A brand sticks. There’s no going back.” The line has been included in Logan, the widely...

Sequels are a curious and fickle species, particularly the breed that has come to most prominence in the last few years: the legacy followup. Always ready to cannibalise when they need to, film producers seem...