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FilmTangerine
"Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!" So goes the opening line of Tangerine, a single-night screwball set on the West Hollywood strip that comes at you like a Jim Ja... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Festivals11 Minutes
Jerzy Skolimovski's latest is a fractured puzzle movie in which several characters collide in dizzyingly constructed vignettes of cosmic timing. The epi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsPablo Larraín on The Club you don't want to join
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín continues to scratch at his nation's dark past with fifth feature The Club, a chilling study of guilt and punishment f... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmDiscovering Julien Duvivier
How do giants of cinema fall through the cracks of critical opinion? It’s a question you’ll be asking yourself if you make it along to Glasgow Fi... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmSeven Alternative Romantic Films
No genre is in more need of a shakeup than the romantic comedy. We've seen enough meet cutes and last-ditch dashes to the train station/airport to know that ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmStar Wars: The Force Awakens
Anyone tempted to gripe about plot revelations in the following review should aim all their fanboy wrath square at The Force Awakens' writer-director JJ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmMavis!
Mavis is a celebration of Mavis Staples, the mightiest pair of lungs in family R&B group The Staple Singers. Even at 75 years old, she is a force of natu... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Festivals¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival: Look South
Is it just us, or is South American film blowing up right now? We all remember the new wave of Mexican cinema in the mid-00s, the aftershock of which can cle... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – May 2016
Which filmmaker's special effects leave you most in awe? You might be tempted to suggest one of the great blockbuster specialists, say Steven Spielberg or Ja... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmWhit Stillman on Love & Friendship
Picture the scene: Glasgow Film Theatre, 24 February. A packed audience sits in the darkened cinema auditorium waiting for their film to start, a frisson in ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsFive Animated Years of Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson
What if Michael Powell had never met Emeric Pressburger? Or Mr and Mrs Coen decided to not have any more children after their son Joel was born? The world wo... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmTen great films about fashion
The fashion industry takes a beating this month, with Nicolas Winding Refn’s brutal fashion world-set horror The Neon Demon and fashion PR satire&... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmA closer look at mind-bending thriller Remainder
Acclaimed video artist Omer Fast discusses his intriguing and puzzling adaptation of Tom McCarthy's cult novel Remainder Pity the video artist who tries to ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FestivalsEIFF 2016: The Childhood of a Leader
For the last decade or so, 27-year-old American actor Brady Corbet has carved out a career as a character actor for some of the greatest auteurs (Haneke, Von... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
FilmBest film screenings in the North (19-26 Aug)
The best film events happening in Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester this week, including The Passenger at HOME, Suspiria at FACT and Thelma & Louise a... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FestivalsStephen Cone on Henry Gamble's Birthday Party
Ahead of the Scottish premiere of Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party at SQIFF, we speak to the film’s director, Stephen Cone, about his sensitive appr... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FestivalsArrival
Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is that rare beast: an awe-inspiring sci-fi that delivers both spectacle and smarts Crafting science-fiction films that are both ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmBest Film Screenings in the North (14-21 Oct)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including two films by Ousmane Sembène and Anthony Minghella’s The ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmThe legacy of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Psycho returns to Manchester this Halloween in the form of Psycho Live, with an orchestral score provided by Manchester Camerata. But Alfred Hitchcock's 1960... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FestivalsFrantz
Don’t directors grow up fast? One day they’re making kinky fairy tales (Criminal Lovers), mischievous sex comedies (Sitcom) or hair-raising horro... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmTommy Wiseau: Hipster Irony Created a Monster
We’ve created a monster. Or, more precisely, a large group of hate-watching hipsters out there have created a monster. And the monster's name is Tommy ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmIn praise of Michael Shannon
Actors can be boring, not because they have nothing interesting to say, but because they have teams of publicists filing away at every spiky edge to their ch... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmIn praise of Pedro Almodóvar's early, funny ones
Earlier this year, the venerable New Yorker critic Richard Brody tweeted a typically didactic thought into the world: “If you think that someone&r... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
FilmKen Loach interview: "I want people to be angry"
For five decades, Ken Loach has used cinema as a tool to expose social injustices within society. With his latest, I, Daniel Blake, Loach turns his attention... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Travel48 Hours in East London with Airbnb Trips
London is many things to many people, and much more than the tourist cliches of red buses, West End musicals and Big Ben. As James Geary famously said &ldquo... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Festivals15 films to see at London Film Festival 2017
The BFI London Film Festival returns again in October, and as usual it’s bursting at the seams with some of the year’s most anticipated film titl... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmLogan Lucky
Little is guaranteed with Steven Soderbergh. Since he kicked off his filmmaking career 28 years ago with stylish chamber piece Sex, Lies, and Videotape, he&r... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
TheatreWest Kowloon Cultural District: International Co-Lab
For the 70th consecutive year, the cobbled streets of Edinburgh have groaned under the strain of the largest and most exciting arts festival in the world. As... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmFive unmissable Scalarama screenings
The Beast KinoKlub pay tribute to Walerian Borowczyk, the ingenius Polish animator who turned softcore surrealist. In its 97 minutes runtime, this prepost... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
FilmMaren Ade on female filmmakers & Toni Erdmann
International comedy smash Toni Erdmann is a shaggy-dog story about a father and daughter that's both biting and tender. Director Maren Ade explains how she ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago