Werner Herzog's latest enquiry into human nature takes him to Texas, where he explores the fallout from a decade-old murder. Into the Abyss is built around interviews with various people...
For four decades New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has cruised the Big Apple on his Schwinn bicycle like a fashionista superhero. His batcave is a studio in Carnegie Hall that...
Avoid basements – that’s what cinema has taught us. It is the room of the house reserved for horror, and that’s its function in Michael, Markus Schleinzer’s formally masterful directorial...
Noomi Rapace (Millennium Trilogy) turns in another ferociously intense performance as Anna, a traumatised mother relocated with her young son to escape an abusive husband. Under the unnecessarily sinister watch...
Rob Heydon’s adaptation of The Undefeated, one of three novellas in Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, clearly has affection for the source material and the cinematic subgenre it reflects,...
Crossing the Line, the new strand at this year's festival, brings experimental and avant-garde films to the Glasgow, exploring the crossover between cinema and visual art. Finnisterrae is, in many...
TBEMH opens with a series of subversions. Half-a-dozen grey-haired archetypes (including Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith) stick two fingers up to the UK – its paltry pension, its...
In the mid-nineties, three suitcases were unearthed in a closet in Mexico, containing negatives long-assumed lost: snaps taken during the Spanish Civil War by Gerda Taro, David ‘Chim’ Seymour, and...
Poland’s foreign language Oscar hopeful is the true story of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), sewer worker and moonlighting burglar, who hid Jews in the subterranean catacombs below Lvov. The original...
Mumblecore king Mark Duplass (think of a smug, male Greta Gerwig) plays Jack, a 30-something slacker who’s struggling to get over the death of his brother, who died a year...
With a career spanning five decades and the accolade 'one of the greatest living painters', Gerhard Richter – as might be expected – has surpassed the soul-searching whys of painting...
Writer/director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean extrapolates the premise of his 2008 short of the same name – a murder and the moral dilemma the reporting or cover-up of it presents –...
In 2009, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested for supporting anti-Ahmadinejad protests; in 2010, he was arrested a second time, sentenced to six years imprisonment, and banned from making films...
Like its eponymous protagonist, Terri sits awkwardly outside mainstream expectations, but is all the more appealing for it. The film opens with fifteen year old Terri (Jacob Wysocki) squeezed into...
When a naïve Italian beauty accepts modelling work in 60s London she's drawn into a sleazy world of booze, jazz parties, free loving, and... dirty pictures! Norman J. Warren's infamous...
This box set of four of Ozu's early silent comedies is part of the BFI's ongoing project to release all of the master director's work on dual-format Blu-ray/DVD. As ever,...
Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) should be fertile ground for David Cronenberg,...
With smutty infographs and high-rise money shots, Urbanized slips the panties down on modern city living. This documentary has no sexy Grand Designs narrator, however, as director Gary Hustwit lets...
Old-fashioned dastardly danger is threatening the, now abandoned, Muppet studios as a maniacally laughing oil tycoon (Chris Cooper) looks set to plunder the ground beneath, laying waste to the heritage...
After an outstanding festival journey, a Tribeca World Documentary Award, and praise from Alec Baldwin, music video director Alma Har'el's debut feature Bombay Beach finally reaches cinema screens across the...
