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‘Hævnen/In a Better World’ is Oscar worthy
There are a couple of reasons why everyone should watch “Hævnen”. The first is that is a beautiful film, a beauteous film, with all the slightly otherworldly aloofness that the word suggests. The...
Jan 17, 2011 / Kamayani SharmaLoose Cannons: Small Expectations
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti, Ferzan Ozpetek) is an Italian comedy about Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio), a young man who returns home planning to announce to his family that he is gay. However, his...
Jan 8, 2011 / Alison FrankRabbit Hole (2010)
Adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Rabbit Hole” ferries us down into the blackest void of parental despair and bravely leaves us without a sturdy rope to climb back...
Dec 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongCasino Jack (2010)
“Washington is like Hollywood, only without the pretty faces.” This, according to Kevin Spacey’s idealistic, wise-cracking super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the two-faced, backstabbing nature of...
Dec 22, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongBlack Swan (2010)
© 2010 Fox Searchlight Pictures Teetering on the edge between melodrama and high art, “Black Swan” is a gripping, spooky, exultant picture that is as beautiful as it is ugly. Sure to divide...
Dec 2, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong127 Hours (2010)
Anyone who has ever worked in a corporate setting or been trained in some unique job or activity has had to sit through an outdated, ineffectual instructional video. When I worked as a data operator...
Nov 29, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongSomewhere (2010)
“The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium” [Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ]. Stephen...
Nov 25, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongLet 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 GranielloThe 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 FrankWest 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 FrankTabloid: 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 FrankThe American: A Strange Hybrid
The first three shots of Anton Corbijn’s The American are enchanting, and prepare the audience for a real treat. The film fades in on a stationary shot of a pristine snowy plain with a Norwegian...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankThe Crucial Message of Miral
Given the success of Julian Schnabel’s previous film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), audiences will have high expectations when they go to see Miral , his most recent feature. Like The...
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