Film Festival Review: Derby Film Festival 2015
Now in its second year, Derby Film Festival continues to grow in terms of programme, quality and attendance, whilst still retaining the same friendly atmosphere as before. The QUAD is a lovely venue with great staff and lovely food to boot. There were more previews this year, more classics and great films running throughout the …
Film Review: Tokyo Tribe
Shion Sono is not what you’d call an unadventurous director. Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table and Strange Circus built him a cult following with horror aficionados. He then stunned the world with Love Exposure, a film which is as mind-boggling as it is long. He’s one of the most innovative Japanese film makers and, coming …
Incoming: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A love story between two tortured souls In the Iranian Ghost town called Bad City, A place that reeks of death and loneliness, where a lonesome vampire is preying on the towns most depraved denizens. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is in cinemas from Friday.
Film Review: The Supreme Price
Nigeria is a huge country. Populated by over 160 million people and boasting a landmass which is significantly bigger than Mainland Europe, the most visited country in Western Africa is a chaotic and diverse nation. Comprising almost 400 different ethnic groups, over 500 languages, not to mention a split between Islam and Christianity and native …
Film Review: Clouds of Sils Maria
There’s been quite a few “backstage” films of late. The most famous example is Birdman, but other notable entries include Map To The Stars and Venus in Furs. Olivier Assayas is a very descriptive director, but in Clouds of Sils Maria he wraps the plot and intrigue in many layers of intertwining knots, merging fantasy …
Film Review: A Fuller Life
n many ways, screenwriter and filmmaker Samuel Fuller was a maverick of American cinema. He staunchly avoided the Studio system and mainstream Hollywood, making films which were controversial and uncompromising. Working on a shoestring budget is never easy, but Fuller has mapped out a career which includes Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Pick-up on South …
Film Review: The Tribe
Cinema is a medium where expression and visceral action can often speak louder than words. In Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s debut film, The Tribe, the Ukrainian director takes this to a new level. The Tribe contains no verbal dialogue, no subtitles, no voiceover and no soundtrack. All the conversations take place in sign language, set to a …
Incoming: A Royal Night Out
May 8th, 1945 – V.E. Day… a nation celebrates the victorious end to a long and costly war. Cloistered away in Buckingham Palace two princesses peer out longingly at the adoring crowd who ready themselves for the biggest party London has ever seen. Princess Elizabeth and her headstrong 15-year-old sister, Margaret, would give anything to …
Incoming: Rosewater
he feature film Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival,” written by the BBC journalist Maziar Bahari. A true story, the film marks the screenwriting and directorial début of “The Daily Show” host and executive producer Jon Stewart Rosewater …
DVD Review: Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut
Lars Von Trier has made his reputation by going to places where other directors fear to tread. He first came to international prominence through the tear-jerking Breaking The Waves and the hysteria-inducing The Idiots. Nymphomaniac Vol 1&2 was originally going to be one film, but the last instalment of the ‘Depression Trilogy’ (along with Antichrist …