Brigitte – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Nick Davie June 14, 2020 Reviews Lynne Ramsay’s latest work is a short documentary film, showing at Sheffield Doc/Fest, capturing a detailed and intimate conversation with photographer Brigitte Lacombe. French photographer Lacombe is a...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #3 – You Were Never Really Here Jack Blackwell December 29, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 What really separated You Were Never Really Here from other thrillers in 2018 – more so, even, than its impressionistic style and sparse dialogue – was its complete lack of hero. Lynne Ramsay’s fourth...
By The Book – We Need To Talk About Kevin Stephanie Watts March 13, 2018 Analysis, By The Book, Features What do you think of when you hear the name Kevin? For many, it’s Lionel Shriver’s creation of modern day demon child Kevin Khatchadourian, who commits a mass shooting at his school in the thriller novel...
You Were Never Really Here – Review Kambole Campbell March 9, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 15/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Perhaps the most exciting thing about Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited thriller You Were Never Really Here is just how full of...
Remembering Morvern Callar: A Forgotten Gem of British Cinema Patrick Nabarro March 6, 2018 Analysis, Close-Up, Features You Were Never Really Here, only Lynne Ramsay’s fourth feature film as director, comes nearly 20 years after the sensation of her debut release, Ratcatcher (1999). That trickle of productivity has its...
Jonny Greenwood in 2017: A Tale of Two Masterpieces Jack Blackwell March 1, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight A member of Radiohead and Paul Thomas Anderson’s go-to composer, Jonny Greenwood has long been a musical magician, but his film work in 2017 was a high-water mark even by his own lofty standards. Not only...
The generosity of Every Frame a Painting Rhys Handley December 7, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Hi, my name is Rhys and I love Every Frame a Painting. The act of watching film is instinctive. You can’t often tell why you like a movie, your gut just knows that you do. There’s something about it...
You Were Never Really Here – LFF 2017 Review Kambole Campbell October 15, 2017 Reviews Perhaps the most exciting thing about Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited thriller You Were Never Really Here is just how full of surprises it is. The film begins in rather dark circumstances, as Joaquin...
10 Most Exciting Cannes Competition Films 2017 Calum Baker April 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Last year's Cannes Film Festival was a real crowdpleaser in terms of headline names: Jim Jarmusch and Nicolas Winding Refn each blew us away, Jeff Nichols made a slow-burning stonker, and Asghar Farhadi...
Top 10 Contemporary Female Directors Patrick Nabarro August 31, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Issues of gender inequality are becoming ever more prevalent in the film industry. First there was the famous pay discrepancy highlighted by Jennifer Lawrence last year. And in recent weeks, two of our own...
