Gaze to the Horizon
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LFF 2014: Wild
When shit hits the fan, we can now all turn to cinema for a dose of inspiration to go through some helluva adversity in pure Hollywood-style. Depending how deep you’re…
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LFF 2014: Pasolini
A fiercely independent filmmaker chronicles one of cinema’s most searing non-conformists – sounds like a match made in film heaven. Abel Ferrara, in all creative virtue, attempts to demystify Pier…
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LFF 2014: ’71
Jack O’Connell possesses about him the kind of gritty, British masculinity that’s rarely been around the silver screen for a while. His is a refreshing presence, and also very impressive how…
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LFF 2014: The Imitation Game
The story of Alan Turing is truly a tragic one. After breaking the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park, the mathematician endured several long, lonely years before being arrested for “gross…
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LFF 2014: The Duke of Burgundy
All hail Peter Strickland. At last, a new film that magnificently refuses to harken to your sad, mediocre, low-grade, commercial expectations. To sum up his third feature in a mere…
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LFF 2014: Camp X-Ray
It’s been a while since Kristen Stewart has treated us with her signature brand of what we may now call as “constipated scowl” acting. Two years back, anyone who paid…
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The Maze Runner (2014)
The secret formula on How To Make It Big these days must be extremely obvious by now. You just have to look at YA adaptations. Except you’d take the shameless…
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Gone Girl (2014)
David Fincher’s latest in a long line of tonally faithful adaptations takes new-found forms of good and evil in stride, as it plays host to the listless. Taken from one…
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DVD: Boys (2014)
In Mischa Kamp’s understated Boys, the wordless moments speak volumes. A lingering glance across the racetrack, a quiet tug of a drawstring hoodie as a gesture of apology, an idyllic,…
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The Next Big Thing
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You and the Night (2014)
Cinema, perhaps more than any other art form, has explored, celebrated and romanticised the night and all its manifold, mystical shades. From film noir to the poetic realism of Alain…
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Ida (2014)
Since its bow in the London Film Festival last year, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has quietly burrowed deep into my psyche, refusing to vacate my cerebral cortex with its haunting imagery…
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Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
To approach a film like Before I Go To Sleep with little knowledge of the narrative, its nifty twists and turns and psychological jolts, isn’t only appropriate but a necessity…
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Take a Moment to Think
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Finding the Words
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The Congress (2014)
More thematically and stylistically audacious than any other films you’ll clap your eyes on this year, The Congress melds live-action with 70’s retro animation to often breathtaking effect, purposefully fusing…
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Lilting (2014)
Few dramas are as gentle and sensitive as Hong Khaou’s immensely moving debut Lilting – a film that, when carelessly calibrated, could easily slide down to mawkish grief porn. Its…
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Moebius (2014)
It’s safe to say that the cinema of South Korean provocateur Kim Ki-Duk isn’t for the faint-hearted. Ostensibly the most batshit of all South Korean directors, if not the entire…
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Wakolda (2014)
Based on the true story featured in Lucía Puenzo’s novel of the same name, Wakolda forgoes the easily accessible blatancy of Nazi villainy in favour of an altogether more personal…
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