The Wait
Presented at the London Film Festival in the “First Feature Film” category, THE WAIT is a delicate tale about a mother’s grief after losing her only son.
A Window In London – BFI Retrospective
Edd Elliott reviews A Window In London, part of the BFI’s London on Film series.
Room
Federica Roberti reviews the unusual and slow-burning thriller ROOM, adapted from Emma Donoghue’s best-selling novel, at the BFI London Film Festival.
Sicario
At its best, SICARIO arrests attention and has a patience that draws out an incredibly tense atmosphere. Jim Ross reviews.
Death of a Gentleman
You thought FIFA was corrupt? Take a look at the body governing world cricket.
By Our Selves
“A truly wholesome watch, maybe even John Clare would have been happy,” writes Faye Gentile.
Life
Scriptwriter Luke Davies takes a fresh and raw approach to portraying two juxtapositional characters in LIFE, writes Faye Gentile.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
One of Britain’s best arthouse auteurs delivers a transgressive tribute to one of Russia’s foremost artists, presenting him as a filmmaker, theorist, and above all as a human being.
96 Ways To Say I Love You
Love is a broad, deep and many-layered subject, and it’s an ambitious topic in any medium, let alone a short film, writes Jack Stocker.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Consistently gorgeous to look at and with some extraordinary set-pieces, THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE is, like much of Walerian Borowczyk’s work, likely to be an acquired taste.
Dance Iranian Style
The director of DANCE IRANIAN STYLE claims he wanted to avoid a sob story, but was there no way to anchor a fiction film in realism while avoiding sentimentalism?
Life in a Fishbowl
Set just before the financial crisis of 2008, the characters in LIFE IN A FISHBOWL are as dysfunctional as Iceland’s banking system became.
Student Review: The Forest
Elliot Wright reviews Sinisa Dragin’s story of Romania and its relations with Yugoslavia after the end of World War 2.
Student Review: The Forecaster
A man wrongly imprisoned for more than a decade on fraud charges is released in 2011, undeterred from his work in economics.
Wojaczek
This film dealing with a poet’s urge to self-destruct is often unexpectedly, if darkly, funny.
