October 2010
53 articles
Let Me In (2010)
I scarcely remember grinning as much during a film as I did while watching “Let Me In.” Grinning during a horror movie, you ask? Allow me to explain. It was an all-encompassing smile of pleasure,...
Oct 30, 2010 / Vanessa GranielloBritish Film Institute 2011: A Programme for a Conservative Era?
To mark the approaching end of the festival, the BFI kindly invited me to a lunch where they presented their programme for 2011. I have to say that there was little there to make me sit up and take...
Oct 29, 2010 / Alison FrankThe 54th London Film Festival in Review
Now that the 54 th London Film Festival has drawn to a close, it’s time to look back at all of the feature films that I reviewed. Here is the list, ordered from best to worst. 1) Dhobi Ghat 2) The...
Oct 29, 2010 / Alison FrankThe Kids Are All Right, and the film is great
Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is one of those films that’s fun to watch at the cinema, just for the appreciative reactions of the audience. I’m sure I saw a few eyes being wiped during its...
Oct 28, 2010 / Alison Frank‘How I Ended the Summer’: Inexplicably
Like Werner Herzog’s half-satirical, half awestruck documentary Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Aleksei Popogrebsky’s Kak ya provyol etim letom ( How I Ended the Summer ) offers a...
Oct 26, 2010 / Alison FrankCatfish (2010)
“Catfish” is one of those films that will have as many interpretations as it has viewers. The middle-aged hipster-loathing intellectual will see it as nothing more than an outlet for the filmmakers...
Oct 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongWest is West: The Missing Details
Initially, Ayub Khan Din was hesitant to write a sequel to East is East (1999): the film was among the most successful independent British films ever made, and he knew that sequels rarely live up to...
Oct 25, 2010 / Alison Frank‘Cold Weather’ Takes Time to Warm Up
Aaron Katz’s Cold Weather is a nice film that could have been even better. It centres on Doug, a young man who has abandoned his degree in forensics to come home to Portland, Oregon. There, he shares...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankDhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries): Testing the Bollywood Dream
Kiran Rao has made an excellent debut with Dhobi Ghat (aka Mumbai Diaries ), a film which she wrote and directed, and which had its first UK screening at the London Film Festival last night. During...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankFreeze Frame: Two Photography Exhibitions in London
Eadweard Muybridge (Tate Britain, 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011) Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Natural History Museum, 22 October 2010 – 11 March 2011) The place of photography in the...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankLondon Film Festival 2010: half way through
It’s been an exciting week with lots of premieres and gala screenings in London. Here’s a selection of images from this past week. You can read up on many of the films screened here. So far, I have...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankLondon Film Festival: the opening night in photos
Here are some photos from the opening night (13th October) of the 54th BFI London Film Festival in London, UK, with the world premiere of Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go . The film is a haunting tale...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankLove Like Poison: An Unusual Coming-of-Age Story
Katell Quilléveré’s Love Like Poison ( Un Poison violent ) is about a 14-year-old girl named Anna, who is spending her summer holidays at home in the countryside with her mother and bedridden...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankNew International Trailer ‘King’s Speech’
Colin Firth stars as King George VI in Tim Hooper’s historical drama about a ruler struggling to make the transition into the mass media age by overcoming a speech impediment. Geoffrey Rush, who...
Oct 24, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTabloid: The Unblinking Gaze
Tabloid is a documentary which uses interviews to investigate a case which was a source of lurid fascination to the British public in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Joyce McKinney was an American...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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