“If there was something new to be said [about the Vietnam War], I didn’t immediately see what it was”, Rory Kennedy revealed in an interview. As she underlines it, the topic is very well documented. She quotes as an example the famous TV series Vietn …Read more
Billy Wilder’s Fedora is quite the oddity in terms of how the story within the film eerily resembles its production. By the mid-1970s Wilder was a renowned genius known for his classics like The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, who was having trouble …Read more
In Starred Up, director David Mackenzie takes us inside the violent world of a British prison as seen through the eyes of young Eric Love (Jack O’Connell) who has just been transferred from a Young Offender Institution to an adult jail. His prison ma …Read more
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is undoubtedly one of the greatest films of the 70s and while its complex themes (including fascism, pedophilia and societal hypocrisy) have been discussed at large in the past, it’s time we focused on its beauty. …Read more
Adventure tourism today suffers from a law of diminishing returns; Westerners travel to far-flung locales seeking a degree of “naturalness” and “authenticity” absent from their own homes, but those same elusive qualities fade away with every outside …Read more
Despite the pictorial quality of its shots, reminiscent of the Pastoral and its topic, The Auction deeply deals with contemporary issues. It is about the struggle Gaby (Gabriel Arcand) a farmer has to face: either sell his farm and his house to help …Read more
On the eve of her wedding, successful writer May (Cherien Dabis) travels to her home country of Jordan for the final preparations, but once there is confronted with the many unresolved problems of her family, as well as her own feelings of not-belong …Read more
Jean- Paul Belmondo is one of the greatest actors in history, and anyone who has seen even a handful of French films from the 1960s has likely seen him in action. His early work enthroned him as a figure central in the French New Wave movement. Early …Read more
With Second Opinion, director Eric Merola delivers a documentary that both inspires and astounds. As the story of young idealism versus big business deception unfolds it leaves you with a quickened pulse – whether that’s due to adrenaline from witnes …Read more
“Carax is the essence of cinema” – Kiyoshi Kurosawa Leos Carax has made 5 and a half films in 32 years and the new documentary MR. X: A Vision of Leos Carax by Tessa Louise-Salomé, seems keen on discovering why a man of such talent, has such a small …Read more
