Prospero And Yellow String: Carré’s ‘Embers’
byClaire Carré’s feature-length directing debut, the science fiction film Embers, is a snapshot of a future where an illness has wiped out the majority…
Reviews
Fighting the Cold War on Ice: A Review of ‘Red Army’
byIn “Red Army”, a documentary directed by American filmmaker Gabe Polsky and produced by Jerry Weintraub and Werner Herzog, we witness the dramatic rise…
‘American Sniper’ Review
byNobody crashes an Oscar party quite like Clint Eastwood. After “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) memorably parachuted into the race at the tail end of…
First Look: ‘Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories’
by“I see that sometimes my characters are so stubborn. They don’t follow my lead, they act as if they were living in real life:…
First Look: ‘Ned Rifle’
byThe new Hal Hartley film brings back everything we know and love about this indie filmmaker and concludes the third chapter of the Henry…
‘Birdman’ – Treading Hostile Boards from Hollywood Has-Been to Broadway Phoenix
byNominated for 9 Oscars, with well-deserved nods given both above and below the line, Birdman is expected to sweep most of the Academy’s laurels…
Horror from Another Hemisphere: ‘Housebound’ and ‘The Babadook’
bySo it’s winter… movie season, and sometimes you’re just in the mood for a scare… a little adrenaline boost from your laptop screen while…
‘Memories of Matsuko:’ A look back
byTetsuya Nakashima made his name through the mesmerising visuals of Kamikaze Girls (2004) and the sombre but deeply moving Confessions (2010). Here, Fergus Byrne…
Art and Life at One and at Odds in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’
byOne of a couple of celebrity lot-centered films shown in the Films de Cannes à Bucarest line-up, this two-hour drama written and directed by Olivier…