London Film Festival 2014: Rosewater
Rosewater by Alexa Dalby In US satirist Jon Stewart’s clever debut as director and co-screenwriter, Mexican Gail Garcia Bernal stars in the true story…
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London Film Festival 2014: Song From The Forest
Song From The Forest Structured around a liturgy rather than a dramaturgy, Michael Obert’s Song From The Forest is a contemplative study of an…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Cut
The Cut The move to Hollywood, or English-language filmmaking isn’t always easy, to which Michaël R. Roskam’s The Drop can testify. But despite a…
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London Film Festival 2014: A Hard Day
A Hard Day by Alexa Dalby For Police Detective Ko (Korean star Seon-gyun Lee), it’s been one of those days – and nights. Speeding…
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Festival Review: Court
★★★★★
Exposing India’s labyrinthine judicial system, Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature Court brings a slow dread to the impossibility of justice.
London Film Festival 2014: The Possibilities Are Endless
Life-affirming and utterly moving, this account of Scottish music icon Edwyn Collins is a truly remarkable achievement in filmmaking.
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London Film Festival 2014: The New Girlfriend / Une Nouvelle Amie
The New Girlfriend by Mark Wilshin Positively frothing with all the Ozon hallmarks of female sexuality, haute couture fetishism and earth-tethering babies, The New…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Drop
A superb performance from Tom Hardy and a cast of intriguing supporting characters saves this often rudderless New York based crime drama from the drop.
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London Film Festival 2014: The Falling
The Falling by Mark Wilshin After her acclaimed debut documentary Dreams Of A Life, Carol Morley makes an awkward move to her first feature,…
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London Film Festival 2014: Maidan
Coupled with an uncompromisingly bloated running time, Sergei Loznitsa’s sedate style of shooting renders this account of civil unrest in Kiev disengaging.
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London Film Festival 2014: Return To Ithaca / Retour à Ithaque
Return To Ithaca Centred round a reunion of a group of fifty-something friends in Havana, Laurent Cantet’s Return To Ithaca is an intensely moving…
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London Film Festival 2014: Dukhtar
Dukhtar by Dave O’Flanagan The prospect of Afia Nathaniel’s directorial debut was an intriguing one in light of Pakistan’s slow but steady shuffle in…
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London Film Festival 2014: Pasolini
Pasolini by Alexa Dalby Expect darkness and fireworks from Abel Ferrara’s thought-provoking biopic (with a fabulously diverse soundtrack) of the last 24 hours in…
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London Film Festival 2014: Mr Turner
Mr Turner Mike Leigh’s dazzling biopic of one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial artists, JMW Turner, in the last 25 years of his…
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