Category: Reviews
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Colour of the Chameleon
Taking on chameleonic qualities, The Colour of the Chameleon (Tsvetat na Hameleona) is a smart…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Lunarcy!
Titular puns and punctuation marks included, Lunarcy! establishes a kind of informal register before it’s…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: From Tehran to London
At the present crossroads, the conditions under which Iran’s national cinema is being made (or…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Taboor
With a distinctive opening and an almost transcendent closing shot, Iranian writer-director Vahid Vakilifar’s second…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Not Criminally Responsible Review
John Kastner’s documentary explores the tentative relationship between mental illness and seriously violent crimes, and…
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Summer In February Review
Christopher Menaul’s Summer in February is based upon the 1995 novel by Jonathan Smith, which…
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Cannes 2013: The Immigrant Review
Turning to the world of period dramas, James Gray crafts a story of longing, loss,…
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Much Ado About Nothing Review
Derek Jarman’s The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet and now Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing represent…
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East End Film Festival: After Tiller
Martha Lane and Lana Wilson’s documentary After Tiller focuses entirely on third-trimester abortions, those undertaken…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
A fascinating and innovative documentary that sashays across Europe and beyond, from war-torn Yugoslavia to…