ORWAV’s Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #60-41 Calum Baker December 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Top 10 Our countdown of the Top 100 Films of the Decade continues apace as we start reaching the titles with some very high aggregate scores. Debate continues to rage over the relative merits of (usually heavy)...
ORWAV Oscars 2017 – The Nominations Tom Bond February 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Just like the real Oscars are more useful as a barometer of Hollywood’s taste than as a marker of quality, the ORWAV Oscars 2017 are a fascinating insight into what makes us tick. Most interestingly of...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 7. Paterson Calum Baker December 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls its spent waters forming the outline of his back. - William Carlos Williams, 'Paterson', 1926. In his first film, 1980's Permanent Vacation, Jim...
Paterson – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook November 26, 2016 Reviews Warm, heartfelt, and unpretentious, Jim Jarmusch's latest is an absolute delight. Paterson (Adam Driver, dependably excellent as a gentle bus driver/poet with great depth) and Laura (Golshifteh...
Ghost Dog and Jim Jarmusch’s Weird Outsiders Kambole Campbell November 25, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Mixing hip-hop flair with the samurai ethos, arthouse cool with wild action sequences, and Forest Whitaker with a bunch of birds, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai couldn’t be a stranger,...
Top 10 Most Exciting Cannes Competition Films 2016 Calum Baker May 11, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Regular ORWAV readers will know how much we love the Cannes Film Festival. We're even returning this year, to cover even more exciting ground than 2015 - and 2015 was pretty exciting. Dheepan won the Palme...
