Flying Blind
Slick, polemical and beautifully rendered, FLYING BLIND is reminiscent of the best of BBC crime drama, but with a painterly mise-en-scène, writes Hannah Clarkson.
Slick, polemical and beautifully rendered, FLYING BLIND is reminiscent of the best of BBC crime drama, but with a painterly mise-en-scène, writes Hannah Clarkson.
On Thursday in Sawston, CFF celebrates the works of Georges Méliès with a screening of the restored version of his most famous work, A TRIP TO THE MOON, followed by THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE.
Hans-Christian Schmid’s melancholy domestic drama is a sensitive, realistic portrayal of a family walking on eggshells, and the tragedy that awaits when they begin to crack, writes Lillie Davidson.
All sushi lovers should make sure they see JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI: a loving portrait of Jiro Ono, the 85-year-old proprietor of the beloved Tokyo sushi restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro. The story is woven in a dreamlike fashion with close-up shots of freshly made fish, shots inside the kitchen and the infamous fish market. The simple, … Continue reading Jiro Dreams of Sushi
After opening the Cambridge Film Festival with his new film HOPE SPRINGS, Jim Ross spoke to director David Frankel about the film and how hard it is to make interesting and challenging films in Hollywood.
Blandly competent film-making at its anodyne best: Keith Braithwaite reviews the French comedy STARBUCK, screened at Cambridge Film Festival.
Jim Ross reviews DOUDEGE WÉNKEL, a police thriller from Luxermbourgian director Christophe Wagner that premiered in the UK at the Cambridge Film Festival.
With JERKS, Stelios Kammitsis has to be commended for making the most out of his first-time cast, and marks him out as a director of some promise, says Sarah Longfield.
THE WELL describes the effects of climate change from an anthropological perspective, and was screened with CARBON FOR WATER, an example of proactive documentary filmmaking with a clear directive, writes Christopher Stefanowicz.
The Zellner brothers’ KID THING is promoted as a “fever dream fable”, though for all its Grimm sensibility, it will ring true to anyone who has known a lonely farm kid, writes Rosy Hunt.