The Master – review
Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love, has – in the eyes of many critics – never made a bad [...]
Tabu and the Ghosts of Silent Cinema
I walked into the screening of Tabu expecting to see one of my favourite films of the year. If you follow any pre-release chatter on blogs or Twitter, you’ll likely [...]
London: The Modern Babylon – review
‘Which is the greatest city in Europe?’ ‘Without doubt the capital of my country, London’ ‘What a city! Why ‘tis Babylon! How rich the most honoured man must be there!… [...]
Review: Nostalgia For The Light
Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has built his reputation on the strength of a number of political documentaries about his native Chile. Two manifest cases in point are his tripartite masterpiece, [...]
Review: Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
Marina Abramović’s art is undoubtedly compelling and innovative, yet it does not always touch or move me. However, this film, and its depiction of the artist, moved me utterly. The [...]
Turkish cinema: another time, another world
The themes of Reha Erdem’s Kosmos will be much recognisable to devotees of the transcendentalist-spiritual sector of world cinema, yet it is perhaps more interesting for granting us another timely [...]
Cosmopolis: Cronenberg’s newest malaise
Don DeLillo, one of the greatest living authors writing in the English language, working with David Cronenberg, erstwhile purveyor of body horror and a consistently challenging narrative filmmaker, is a [...]
The Turin Horse
Arriving at the Curzon Renoir in London to see Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse, there’s a sign on the stairs featuring Jean Renoir’s declaration that “the saving grace of the [...]
Prometheus unwound
Prometheus has finally landed in the UK, highly anticipated not just because of the thought of Ridley Scott returning to the Alien universe, but also thanks to its aggressive and [...]
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