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EIFF 2015: Scottish Mussel
Scottish Mussel follows Martin Compston as a Glaswegian schemer moonlighting as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams, with the help of his bu... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Inside Out
With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Horse Money
To offer a reductive description of Pedro Costa’s Horse Money for those unfamiliar with it or him as a filmmaker, imagine the following: Labyrinth, exc... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Green Room
Punk v Nazi thriller from the mind that brought you Blue Ruin Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin, trades the latter’s revenge ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Apocalypse is plagued with problems but the new blood shine, even if some of the old guard (Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence) look pretty bore... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Hirokazu Kore-eda on Our Little Sister
With films like I Wish and Nobody Knows, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has proven himself the modern master of quiet family dramas. His latest, Our Littl... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Our Little Sister
Based on manga Umimachi Diary, Our Little Sister sees three upwardly mobile adult sisters attend the funeral of the father who left their family ye... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Colossal
Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) makes a bid for the American mainstream with Colossal, a high-concept indie that’s part ... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Pablo Larraín rethinks the biopic with Neruda
When it comes to productivity, there aren't many high-profile directors who come close to Japan’s Takashi Miike (who has made approximately five featur... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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A Ghost Story
Following his breakthrough feature in 2013, the (sorta) neo-Western Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, director David Lowery took an unexpected career turn in h... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Edgar Wright on car chase thriller Baby Driver
“I was going to say I’ve not been offered a musical, but that’s not true. I think if it was the right thing and I thought I could do it wel... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Moon Dogs
Moon Dogs sees a young Scotsman, Welshman and Irishwoman venture on a road trip from Shetland to Glasgow. Michael (Parry-Jones) wants to reunite with his inc... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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The Firm
Since his untimely death in 1990 at the age of 54, Alan Clarke has been something of a perennially underrated figure in the landscape of British cinema histo... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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The BFG
Despite being set within a world of giants, Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG thrives on its small moments When published in 1982, Roald ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Author: The JT LeRoy Story
A decade on from The Devil and Daniel Johnston, documentarian Jeff Feuerzeig returns to the well of artists whose creativity flirts with oft-extreme for... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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A Quiet Passion
After a decade of difficulties with projects stuck in development hell, that British director Terence Davies now brings us his third feature in six year... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Free Fire
Shades of Sam Peckinpah in this star-studded action film about an arms deal gone wrong from Sightseers director Ben Wheatley Jean-Luc Godard once said that ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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LFF 2016: The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook's latest, based on Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, is a darkly comic study in sex, class and Japanese-Korean relations After a polarising fo... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Illegitimate
The predominate theme of Illegitimate, from Romanian director Adrian Sitaru, is that of love in extreme scenarios. One of these is delivered immediately in t... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
It’s been nearly 20 years since 60s TV spy show Mission: Impossible made the leap to the big screen, largely abandoning the source material’s Col... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Brooklyn
Adapted from Colm Tóibín’s beloved novel, Brooklyn is a refreshingly old-fashioned melodrama with depths that transcend its initial light... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: The Highlights
45 Years (Andrew Haigh) 45 Years is a ghost story, but the spectre haunting Geoff and Kate (expertly played by Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling),... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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LFF 2015 Highlights: The Discoveries
Evolution Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Ever since writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic teased that she was working on an original feature over a decade ag... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Film Season Preview: A Story of Mark Cousins and Children and Film
In his 18 hour documentary, The Story of Film, Mark Cousins offered cinema enthusiasts a comprehensive tour of the medium, tracing its journey from a no... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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LFF 2014: The Old Guard
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) “I hate characters,” a woman states in Goodbye to Language, and it’s clear she is speaking on behalf... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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LFF 2014: The New(ish) Voices
GIRLHOOD (CÉLINE SCIAMMA) The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boy... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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LFF 2015 Highlights: The Auteurs
I Am Belfast Dir. Mark Cousins Mark Cousins is arguably one of the best film essayists of our time, and the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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2013's Coming Attractions
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) — 22 Feb Based on the incredibly complex novel by David Mitchell (not that one), Cloud Atlas consists of ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Mistaken for Strangers
”I feel like I'm on the outside looking in,” opines Tom Berninger, halfway through this brilliantly idiosyncratic documentary in which he is both... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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London Film Festival 2016: The Highlights
1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago