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The London Dance Film Festival is all set to take place from 9th to 12th June 2016 in Kingston-upon-Thames. Presented by UK’s pioneering dance company BalletBoyz in association with dancescreen, this inaugural festival offers a […]
To get one fairly minor cavil out of the way: one or two scenes in Ricki and The Flash (2015) are unartfully staged—not mangled but, given the overarching appeal of the film, annoying—and there are […]
Director Barbet Schroeder brought a European sensibility to Reversal of Fortune (1990) that affords the subject the perspective it probably deserves. His Oscar-nominated treatment urges us to take neither the bleak marital arrangements of Claus […]
As a lifelong movie enthusiast—and more particularly as someone who writes about film—this is one of those before which I am humbled. Moonstruck (1987) is that very rare film in which each element of production […]