Short of the Month: Bogeyman
https://vimeo.com/243452948 Often short films can feel gimmicky – little more than directorial calling-cards centred around singular visual conceits. Polish-Australian filmmaker Bianca Lucas, whose Before...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan and the Fallacy of Slow Cinema
“Are we losing interest in everyday life?” says one young librarian to another in Kogonada’s superb Columbus – one of the finest films to hit UK cinemas this year. The comment comes at the end of an...
My Summer of Love: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Finest Hour
Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Cold War, has become one of the world’s top contemporary auteurs almost by stealth. He’s not a filmmaker who...
The Brilliance of Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche. The name alone brings connotations of a very particular brand of imperious arthouse cinema. Seeing it in the opening credits is a near guarantor of a cerebral viewing experience; a patent by...
Unravelling The Genius Of Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven
To younger audiences, Todd Haynes is probably better known for his Bob Dylan experimental tribute, I’m Not There (2007) and exquisite romantic melodrama, Carol (2015). In the early years of the new...