The Appeal of the Road Movie
Share Ah the open road. A place which for most is a nightmare, a tarmac track they share for hours shoulder to shoulder with countless others back dropping their journey from A to B has been transformed, by cinema, into something of magical folklore, a place of opportunity, freedom and possibility. Last month we were...
Le Havre review
Share There is often cause for celebration among cinephiles with the release of a new Aki Kaurismaki film. The Finnish director and king of cinematic deadpan is greatly admired by the likes of Jim Jarmusch and has made a lasting impression on current filmmakers as diverse as Wes Anderson and his near-namesake, Swede Roy...
Good Old Oscar
Share Remember the past? The way things were back then in the past? Of course you do, it was great. It certainly hasn’t escaped the attention ofHollywood, especially over at the Academy Awards where the nominations drew up a number of predicatively backwards-looking films. This, of course, is nothing new for the Oscars, The King’s...
The Artist Review
Share It’s hard to feel like you haven’t seen The Artist already and not just because of its nostalgic feel. It caused a storm at Cannes back in May and has been seemingly mentioned ever since. The latter no doubt due to the ever significant involvement of Harvey Weinstein, lumbering over the project as an...
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