Faces Places – Review L D September 21, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 14/10/17 as part of the London Film Festival. Faces Places is a documentary made by Agnès Varda and JR to accompany their large-scale ‘Inside Out’ photography...
Michel Hazanavicius on Redoubtable Louise Burrell May 8, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Based on French actress Anne Wiazemsky's autobiography, Redoubtable is an intimate biopic of a very specific period in Jean-Luc Godard's life. Following his overwhelming success as the leader of French New...
Faces Places – LFF 2017 Review L D October 14, 2017 Reviews Faces Places is a documentary made by Agnès Varda and JR to accompany their large scale ‘Inside Out’ photography project. Their big names certainly risk stealing the limelight, but their reverence for the...
Stockholm, My Love – Review Patrick Nabarro June 18, 2017 Reviews British cinephile par excellence, Mark Cousins, returns with another of his ambitious and high-minded cine-essays (although this is technically fictional) centred on a specific geographical location. The...
Top 10 Directorial Debuts Patrick Nabarro June 23, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The directorial debut is an interesting phenomenon: for every illustrious filmmaker who nailed their craft at the first time of asking, other estimable auteurs needed a number of cracks to hit their...
The Young and Prodigious Xavier Dolan Janz Anton-Iago March 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight 2 Comments 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...
Goodbye to Language (3D) – LFF Review Tom Bond October 13, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Reviewing Goodbye to Language is like watching it. Very confusing. All that really matters is the ground-breaking moment where Godard rips up the 3D rulebook and redefines the format. The image splits. One...
‘All Those Wonderful People Out There in the Dark’: On the Past, Present and Future of Cinephilia: Part 1 Lina Jurdeczka July 14, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 1 Comment There is a scene in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003) when the three main characters race through the Louvre in Paris, attempting to break a world record. A direct reference to Bande à Part (1964),...