Film
Film around the world: Japan’s Harakiri
It is not The Godfather or The Shawshank Redemption or any Hollywood epic that is the highest rated film on the app ‘Letterboxd’ (a popular film social media app)....
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune
In 1984, shortly after the epic finale to the (original) Star Wars trilogy was...
Film around the world: Germany’s The Lives of Others
I’m sure that those of us who studied A-Level German back in the day...
Film around the world: Italy’s Suspiria
The first time I heard about Suspiria, I was nine and my babysitter was...
Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz
Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was...
Film around the world: Japan’s Harakiri
It is not The Godfather or The Shawshank Redemption or any Hollywood epic that is the highest rated film on the app ‘Letterboxd’ (a...
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune
In 1984, shortly after the epic finale to the (original) Star Wars trilogy was in theatres, David Lynch’s Dune treated audiences to, in the...
Film around the world: Germany’s The Lives of Others
I’m sure that those of us who studied A-Level German back in the day (not so long ago, if you’re a first-year reading this)...
Film around the world: Italy’s Suspiria
The first time I heard about Suspiria, I was nine and my babysitter was telling me I couldn’t watch it, shouldn’t even - that...
Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz
Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was extremely prolific and directed films across every decade of Turkish...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
‘The Godfather: Part II’ at fifty
The Godfather: Part II is a film about gangsters. It is also a film about corruption, power, betrayal, succession, revenge, religion, marriage, generational change,...
All Of Us Strangers Review – A Haunting Exploration of Love in all its Forms
"In All Of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh leads us by the hand into a dreamlike, introspective world. "
‘Bittersweet, immersive and profoundly moving’ – Perfect Days Review
"I don’t think I’ve ever felt so ‘in the moment’ while watching a film as I did with Perfect Days"
Hollywood vs. AI – Is this the end?
"the question on everyone’s lips is: is this the end? The end of special effects teams? The end of video creation? The end of filmmaking?"
Poor Things – Review
Includes some spoilers
Poor Things takes place in a world only Yorgos Lanthimos could create. Like the rest of his oeuvre, the film is full...
The Roaring Twenties
"The Roaring Twenties (1939), freshly remastered this year in 4K, is the last and greatest gangster film of the 1930s."
To fall in love in just ‘One Day’: Review
"One Day, like Normal People, has touched me in a way that very few other programmes have."
Zone of Interest – Review
"His euphemisms are obvious, yet they are emblematic of the culture of 'seeing without seeing' that cast its shadow over the National Socialist period in Germany. "
