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"I believe that teenagers are really fascinating to film because it's the moment when your consciousness is starting to build and exist." - An Intervi... 11 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
With his adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel Foxfire, director Laurent Cantet is making his first film in the United States, but this is less of a departure for the French director than it might fi...
The 2013 London Indian Film Festival 22 Jul 2013 | 03:47 am
Monsoon Shootout Perhaps Amit Kumar's film should have been called Monsoon Standoff. When naïve young cop Adi (Vijay Varma) corners his suspect in an alleyway, the film slows down to a standstill, an...
In the House (Dans la maison) 20 Jul 2013 | 03:57 am
The films that François Ozon has made in his career have been marked by an eclectic range of wildly divergent styles, but perhaps he is never more interesting than when he is looking at the nature of ...
Mea Maxima Culpa on the BBC 18 Jul 2013 | 04:33 pm
Last month, BBC4 screened Alex Gibney’s exceptional documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. I’m a great admirer of Gibney’s films and his exploration of abuse within the Catholic ch...
King Mob and Iain Sinclair present 70x70 17 Jul 2013 | 01:24 am
Iain Sinclair turned 70 years old this year, and to celebrate he has given a gift to us all. Over the course of the next year, 70 films selected by Sinclair will be screened across London. Each of the...
"I think it's human nature that we will always want to keep secrets, and it's also human nature that we will always want to leak them." - An Interview... 7 Jul 2013 | 03:34 am
Alex Gibney's latest film is called We Steal Secrets, and it couldn't be arriving in cinemas at a more appropriate time. As Edward Snowden remains on the run from the US government, the questions rais...
The Passion of Joan of Arc at Union Chapel 7 Jul 2013 | 02:18 am
After being feared lost for so many decades, Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc has become a staple on the repertory cinema scene. I've seen the film numerous times and on almost every one o...
Stoker 1 Jul 2013 | 12:57 am
Extravagant pieces of filmmaking often get accused of favouring style over substance, but in a film like Stoker the style is the only substantial thing about it. Stoker is based on a screenplay by act...
Competition - Win Stoker on Blu-Ray 26 Jun 2013 | 08:45 pm
After making his international reputation with the Vengeance trilogy and his stylish vampire drama Thirst, Korean director Park Chan-wook made his English-language debut this year with Stoker. This go...
Blackfish 26 Jun 2013 | 03:42 am
Orcas are widely known as killer whales, but that is something of a misnomer. While there have been some recorded incidents of orca attacks on humans in the wild, none have been known to be fatal. How...
