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★★★★, documentary, USAJanuary 24, 2014

Teenage (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
A teenage dream’s so hard to beat, Matt Wolf gets his Teenage kicks from all over the globe, charting the rise and fall of youth in the twentieth century.

BlogJanuary 4, 2014

Review Of The Year: 2013

By Mark Wilshin

In black and white or riotous colour, here’s a quick look back over the best and worst films of 2013 and a sneak preview of the movies to watch out for in 2014.

★★★★, Cambodia, documentaryJanuary 3, 2014

The Missing Picture / L’Image Manquante (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
A testimony to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge in clay, Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture is a poetic and intelligent rumination on survival, memory and murder.

★★★, documentary, USADecember 6, 2013

Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s (2013)

By Laura Bennett

★★★☆☆
Matthew Miele’s Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s is a suitably sleek star-studded behind-the-scenes documentary looking at New York’s über department store.

★, documentary, USANovember 29, 2013

Leviathan (2012)

By Mark Wilshin

★☆☆☆☆
A vibrant kaleidoscope of life on the high seas, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s Leviathan sails the rough waters between video art and cinema.

★★★, Australia, documentaryNovember 15, 2013

Utopia (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★☆☆
Veteran documentary filmmaker John Pilger’s latest, Utopia, is a hard-hitting investigation into modern Australia’s commitment to its indigenous communities.

★★★★, documentary, queer, USANovember 8, 2013

How To Survive A Plague (2012)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
Exposing the front lines of the AIDS epidemic on the streets of New York, David France’s How To Survive A Plague is a moving testament to people power.

★★★★, documentary, USANovember 8, 2013

Seduced And Abandoned (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★★☆
A documentary shot at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, James Toback’s Seduced And Abandoned explores the unique aura of the festival itself, cinema art, money, glamour and death.

★★★, documentary, USANovember 3, 2013

Milius (2013)

By Mark Wilshin

★★★☆☆
The making of a legend, Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson’s bio-documentary Milius uncovers the gun-toting storyteller and filmmaker that took Hollywood on and lost.