“Paddington 2” Film Review
Kindness and cascades of fun prevail in this second cinematic outing for young Paddington.
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“Parasite” B&W Edition: Film Review
While Bong Joon Ho’s spectacularly successful Parasite was collecting awards in Cannes and at the Oscars, its black & white twin was quietly waiting in the vaults – or maybe in the basement of a beautiful but foreboding modernist villa.
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“The Truth”: Film Review
A palimpsestic chamber piece in a minor key, Kore-eda’s “The Truth” stars Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in a film that is as French as they come – almost.
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“9 Fingers” (9 doigts): Film Review
Shot in black and white, in glorious chiaroscuro, this film by cult director FJ Ossang is a delight.
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“Thelma”: an Interview with Joachim Trier and Eili Harboe
Joachim Trier’s film “Thelma”, made with his long-term collaborators, writer Eskil Vogt, cinematographer Jakob Ihre and composer Ola Fløttum, marks a new development in the director’s career.
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“Las Herederas (The Heiresses)”: Interview with Marcelo Martinessi
A long relationship plays out in a world of light and dark among the upper classes of Paraguay. Director/writer Marcelo Martinessi talks about his Berlinale prize-winning film.
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“Imitation Girl”: Film Review
In the empty, rock-strewn landscape of the New Mexico desert, a meteorite pierces through the cloudy sky.
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“Call Me By Your Name”: Film Review
Charming and bucolic, a meandering story of a summer idyll unexpectedly builds up into something deeply moving and memorable.
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“The Florida Project”: Film Review
Mayhem reigns wherever Moonee (Brooklyn Prince), an irrepressible six-year-old, leads her friends. She is a little tornado of mischief, and has an answer for everything.
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“Padre”: Film Review
Giada Colagrande’s latest film explores love after loss, in a richly musical and luminous story.
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“Roma”: Film Review
An aesthetically stunning cinematic feat, Roma gives a vivid account of a Mexico City childhood set against a backdrop of surging political repression.
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“Shiraz: A Romance of India”: Film Review
Made in 1928, Shiraz tells the tale of a great love which came to be immortalised in stone – the Taj Mahal.
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“The Lady Eve”: Film Review
Self-possessed, proud, glacially witty and maddeningly funny: Barbara Stanwyck is a dame like no other in this scintillating, effervescent screwball comedy.
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“The Ritual”: Film Review
What better way to transcend harrowing guilt and grief, than to be immersed in a world of primal fear?
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“Jawbone”: Film Review
South London, City lights in the distance. The crepuscular gloom envelops a man felled by loss, drink and impending homelessness. He has nowhere to go, and no loved ones. Yet “Jawbone” is a quietly exhilarating film.
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