Spotlight: Catherine Deneuve Josefine Algieri March 19, 2020 Analysis, Features, Spotlight There may be no name so immediately synonymous with French cinema as Catherine Deneuve. With a career spanning more than half a century and more than 130 screen credits to her name, Deneuve is a steady fixture...
The Death of Louis XIV – Review L D July 15, 2017 Reviews That the UK release of Albert Serra’s period feature almost coincides with the July 14 Bastille Day celebrations, during which revolutionaries exhumed the remnants of Louis XIV’s corpse, could be...
La La Land and the Question of Authorship in Film Sinead McCausland February 26, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Damien Chazelle's nostalgic musical La La Land puts its behind-the-scenes artists to full use, creating poetic and fanciful imagery and prompting the question of who the author of a film really is. It's a...
Hitchcock/Truffaut – Review Tori Brazier March 5, 2016 Reviews Hitchcock/Truffaut is a gentle but revealing documentary, 50 years on from the exhaustive interviews conducted by François Truffaut. Concentrating on re-evaluating Hitchcock’s work and the context...
