London Film Festival 2016: Part One
There’s nothing like an autumn season film festival that can drag me out of my hole than London Film Festival, this frenetic city’s premier twelve-day movie marathon. OK, it’s not exactly…
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LFF 2015: Queen of Earth
The fact that some of the greatest filmmakers of our time have essentially built careers on women going absolutely nuts on screen is worth mentioning since this might just be…
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LFF 2015: The Assassin
For those expecting for the new heir to Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou’s Hero in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, look elsewhere. This isn’t the crowd-pleasing, epic-making…
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LFF 2015: When Marnie Was There
It’s easy to see When Marnie Was There will touch a lot of emotional chords, and not only because it’s Studio Ghibli’s final effort (in the interim, at least), but…
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LFF 2015: The Club
It’s no secret that the world’s wealthiest, tax-free organisation aka the Vatican preserves the sacrament of priesthood like it’s the Holy Grail, sending so-called disgraced priests into faraway homes in…
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The Way He Looks (2014)
It’s remarkable how The Way He Looks defiantly refuses to be categorically pigeonholed in cinema. Not for a single moment the word ‘gay’ is uttered and no conventional reference to…
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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 2012: Compliance
You may actively condemn Compliance for its unpleasantness, but there’s no denying the kick it sends to the guts. It’s a merciless piece of cinema that’s uncomfortable, appalling and provocative all at once, a film that compels us to take a hard look at a disquieting spectacle of ignorance – the human tragedy to blindly follow, obey and concede to authority without asking ‘why’.
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LFF 2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild
You’ll hardly see a more life-affirming film this year than this barnstorming magical-realist coming-of-age fable. Beasts of the Southern Wild deserves to be seen and treasured – a soulful, soaring, poignant childhood parable, with equal parts joy and melancholy. This is cinema at its most dazzlingly, beautifully alive anchored by one of the greatest child performances of all-time.
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LFF 2012 Day Two: Miffed about Amour
Let me clarify the above headline – I’m not miffed about Amour the Film. I haven’t seen it. I’m miffed because I cannot go and watch it. Which exacerbates my trivial resentment against the large majority of the over-privileged BFI members, who all bought tickets en masse, sending us all destitute mortals into cinematic oblivion. Film festivals are so bourgeois!
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