Allied (2016)
Let’s get that damn elephant out of the room. The private lives of our silver screen stars theoretically have no place in the judgement of the cinematic products we consume,…
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Marion Cotillard
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Macbeth (2015)
Arguably Shakespeare’s most morally fucked-up play, Macbeth has enamoured some of cinema’s greatest filmmakers, from Akira Kurosawa to Orson Welles and Roman Polanski, each to their own producing dark visions of…
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The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema 2014
No year is complete without a supervillain. And no, I’m not talking about Scott Rudin or North Korea. In this annus mirabilis in cinema, no one else has royally fucked-up…
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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Seven
My faith in cinema has been gloriously restored today by the new Dardenne brothers film Two Days, One Night (or its much better sounding title Deux Jours, Une Nuit). Perhaps…
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Cannes 2014: Two Days, One Night
We’ve already witnessed the superficial woes of the privileged class in the Croisette. Now, Belgian masters Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are bringing cinema back down to the ground to depict…
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Cannes 2013: Day Ten
And so my final day in Cannes has arrived – after ten days of seemingly endless queueing, the rants and raves in my blog and tweeting the shit out of…
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LFF 2012 Day Five: Amputees, crazy nuns and prostitutes
So that was the Order of the Day. In what seemed to be the most packed, challenging and personally rewarding day of the festival so far. I went out to check out the Audiards, Mungius and Kiarostamis steam-rolling in cinemas all day.
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LFF 2012: Rust and Bone
A pair of powerful performances from Cotillard and Schoenaerts lend Rust and Bone some muscular, dramatic gravitas, only to be hampered by a preposterously conceived final hour that completely betrays the audience’s emotional investment in the first half. Audiard hasn’t put a foot wrong so far, until now.
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10 Films To Watch in the 56th London Film Festival
It’s that groovy time of the year again (no, I’m not talking about Christmas just yet). For all of us in London who couldn’t afford to sail to Cannes or go back-packing en-route to Venice, October is a super special time for self-confessed cineastes with a shoestring budget like me so I could go film-whoring along both sides of the Southbank in the 56th London Film Festival.
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65th Cannes Film Festival Line-Up!
It’s the breeding season of cinema, folks. What d’you expect. This is the much awaited time when auteurs pull out their wangs (that’s artistic egos for you, uninitiated ones) for public stroking and adoration. It’s the battle of men this year. Not that we’ll witness somebody like Haneke beating the life out of somebody like Kiarostami, but at least we’ll expect their films will make some particular impact. Let’s not kid ourselves, Cannes is the most prestigious film festival in the entire circuit. The French know and love their cinema. 9 out of my Top 10 Films last year all premiered in Cannes.
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Midnight in Paris (2011)
The best Woody Allen film in a very long time. This is a heartfelt, charmingly poignant, love-letter to the City of Lights and nostalgia by an auteur who hasn’t lost his joie de vivre.
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Nine (2009)
What promises to be a bombastic musical with a shamanic alignment of megawatt star-power ends up with barely a bang. Rob Marshall’s Nine, despite of its lavish, slick production, gorgeous cinematography and art direction that oozes with 60’s retro chic, is a film of misfired ambitions. Far from Fellini’s original 8½, this is a mediocre, passable, if not entertaining, affair.
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