London Film Festival 2014: Mommy
Mommy by Mark Wilshin Returning to the subject of his first film I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan’s Mommy describes the tempestuous relationship between…
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London Film Festival 2014: Phoenix
Phoenix by Mark Wilshin Loosely based on extracts from Hubert Monteilhet’s Le Retour Des Cendres, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix plays a dangerous game with its…
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London Film Festival 2014: Whiplash
Ferocious, electric and unrelenting, Simmons and Teller never miss a beat in Damien Chazelle’s phenomenal second feature. Whiplash by Dave O’Flanagan Boasting not one,…
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London Film Festival 2014: My Old Lady
My Old Lady by Alexa Dalby Kevin Kline shines as Mathias (Jim) Gold, a boorish American in Paris, just short of his 57th birthday….
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London Film Festival 2014: Leviathan
Leviathan Moving from vast vistas of Russia’s frozen North into an isolated parable of one man, ex-soldier and handyman Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) as he…
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London Film Festival 2014: In The Basement / Im Keller
In The Basement by Mark Wilshin Nothing makes Austria more terrifying than the films of Ulrich Seidl, and none more so than In The…
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London Film Festival 2014: Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth by Mark Wilshin Following his previous film The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, James Kent returns with a fully fledged…
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London Film Festival 2014: Serena
Serena by Mark Wilshin It doesn’t look good from the get-go. George (Bradley Cooper) is a hunter on the quest for a near-extinct puma,…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Salvation
An entertaining modern Western with the magnetic Mads Mikkelsen, The Salvation is gorgeous to look at – but as hollow as a Ten-gallon hat.
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London Film Festival 2014: The Wonders / Le Meraviglie
The Wonders by Mark Wilshin Following a farming family living on the brink of bankruptcy, Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders is a social realist study…
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London Film Festival 2014: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night by Alexa Dalby The title implies a female in danger but this film reverses those expectations. The…
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London Film Festival 2014: War Book
War Book by Mark Wilshin Every year the British Government spend three days simulating a national response to the outbreak of nuclear war. Civil…
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London Film Festival 2014: Wild
Wild by Mark Wilshin Much like John Curran’s Tracks at last year’s London Film Festival, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild follows one lone woman Cheryl Strayed…
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London Film Festival 2014: Wild Tales / Relatos Salvajes
An excellent Argentine selection box of intricate short stories; crazy, caustic, and ingeniously clever.
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