Opening film As An Eilean The 10th edition of the Folk Film Gathering in Edinburgh will be held at the at Cameo Picturehouse and the Scottish Storytelling Centre from 3 to 12 May this year...
Michel Hazanavicius is back on the Croisette - with animated wartime drama The Most Precious of Cargoes Photo: © Ex Nihilo, Les Compagnons du Cinéma, Studio Canal, France 3 Cinéma, Les Fi...
Royalty Hightower in The Fits THE FITS , 2.30am, Film4, Tuesday, April 23 The sort of film that used to cause big waves at Sundance (where it did eventually screen), Anna Rose Holmer's ...
First things first; there are, of course, blind people working in police departments. Why shouldn’t there be? There are many different kinds of police work and many adjustments that can be made...
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Marianna Economou’s examination of an Athenian TB hospital and its residents may be geographically specific but it has an emotional resonance that is universal. Her film begins as a dive into a...
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It's now just over 50 years since Truffaut argued that it was impossible to make an antiwar film. That was in a Chicago Tribune interview with Gene Siskel, whose colleague Roger Ebert described f...
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Campaign poster Paul Metzler YOU BET-ZLER!! in Alexander Payne’s Election, starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, designed by Nate Carlson In the second instalment with Alexan...
Kasumi (Tôko Miura) doesn’t know, when she arrives at the meal, that it’s a ‘mixer’, an event designed to help people find prospective romantic partners. We’re plunged into it halfway ...
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From its very first shot, Fabio D’Orta’s début feature will grab your attention. Depending on the context of your viewing, you might not realise it has started, because it looks like a car a...
https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-complex-forms-2023-film-review-by-jennie-kermode
Is it the truth, or a romantic fiction? If the latter, who is telling the story? The vignette at the start of Shûsuke Kaneko’s much-loved manga adaptation packs in every available Gothic clich...
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There are some filmmakers who stamp their personality on their work from the outset. With a distinctive blend of horror and humour present in Neal Dhand’s dialogue and shot choices, together wi...
https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/dark-my-light-2023-film-review-by-jennie-kermode
Paloma Kwiatkowski as Lily in The Island Between Tides Somewhere between an adaptation of and a sequel to JM Barrie’s play Mary Rose, The Island Between Tides is the story of a family w...
Most mammals play throughout their lives. They do it more when young, when it’s important for learning, and less as adults, when they have to prioritise food, reproduction and safety, but they ...
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One of the most successful epic poems in history, one of genre cinema’s most influential writers and one of its greatest directors – right from the start, 1924 silent diptych Die Nibelungen w...
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Albert Dieudonné as Napoleon which 'amazed audiences and critics alike when it premiered at the Paris Opera on 7 April, 1927' Photo: Photoplay January 1925. First turn of the crank a...
Eleni Kokkidou as Haroula. Spiros Jacovides: 'Eleni is an incredible actor. The way she works is that she observes a lot and she takes videos and pictures. She kept coming with different Har...
Filmmaker Paul B Preciado doesn’t need to write down his story, he tells us at the start of this experimental docudrama, because Virginia Woolf has already done that. The claiming of Woolf’s ...
The site where the campus will be built Photo: Christopher Jackson Drone Videography & Photography A new film and television studio complex is to built in Scotland, it was announced yester...
Michael Cera and Kristen Stewart star in Sacramento Photo: Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, Jenna Ortega and Michael Cera are among the stars whose latest film...
Freshta in Kamay. Ilyas Yourish says he was 'impressed by her voice, the way she observed the parents' efforts for seeking justice and her perception of justice' Photo: Kamay Film Ily...