Posts Tagged ‘London Film Festival’
Miss Bala (2011)
Bird’s eye view Gerardo Naranjo’s third film, Miss Bala, is all about point of view. He chooses to tell a tale of Mexican drug cartels and cop-gang war crabwise, from the angle of an innocent young woman whose only desire is to be a contestant in a local beauty contest. She is the pretty,...
November 8th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
The Descendants (2011)
The other George Clooney film at this year’s London Film Festival is Alexander Payne’s fifth feature film The Descendants. It has been seven years since his last feature film Sideways and so there was a lot of anticipation for this. Clooney plays Matt King a wealthy yet frugal lawyer living in Hawaii...
October 25th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life (2011)
For anyone that enjoyed Herzog’s last documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the title of his latest venture will come as no surprise. Abyss is a word Herzog relishes in using and it is a good word to associate with his plethora of work which habitually explores the mysterious abyss, both physical and...
October 23rd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Corpo Celeste (2011)
Marta (Yle Vianello) is a thirteen year old girl who has just moved back to Southern Italy with her mum and older sister, they were previously living in Switzerland. In an attempt to help Marta integrate with her peers and make friends her mother makes her join a youth catechism group. In the lead up...
October 23rd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
The Ides of March (2011)
Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Myers, a young ambitious campaign press spokesman for the Democratic candidate Governor Morris (George Clooney). The film is set in Ohio in the days leading up to the US presidential primary. Philip Seymour Hoffman is the older and wiser campaign manager Paul Zara who sees...
October 23rd, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Bernie (2011)
Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) is an assistant funeral director in small town Carthage, Texas. He is loved by the community and gets along particularly well with the elderly widows he seeks out to console after going the extra mile with their late husbands’ services. Bernie is an overly nice do-gooder who...
October 22nd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2010)
Don’t let the title and the category of this film fool you, this is not an experimental film. It is in fact a very traditional documentary about experimental film. I was actually rather surprised at how traditionally filmmaker Pip Chodorov chose to make this documentary and it works extremely well....
October 22nd, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Two Years at Sea (2011)
With the use of 16mm cameras director Ben Rivers shows us the mundane life of outsider Jake Williams. Jake is a hermit who lives somewhere in Aberdeenshire in the middle of nowhere, he has a sprawling ram shackled cottage and a caravan and spends his time living off the land and sleeping. We see Jake’s...
October 21st, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Wild Bill (2011)
British actor Dexter Fletcher makes his debut as director with the typically British Wild Bill. The film focuses on Bill Hayward (Charlie Creed-Miles) who has been in prison for eight years due to his ‘wild’ ways. Bill has been released from prison and seems to want to put his previous life...
October 21st, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Natural Selection (2011)
Linda (Rachael Harris) is a forty something good wholesome Christian woman married to Abe (John Diehl), a man who believes the only reason to have intimate relations with his wife is in order to procreate. As Linda has been diagnosed as barren the couple do not do the deed leaving Linda extremely frustrated,...
October 20th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
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rachelandbella: liked love the comps...
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Kevin Matthews: Haha, for some reason I LOVE this pic that you've chosen, Robin. Well selected, sir. :-)... -
Tue Sorensen: And, the giraffe belly at the end is obviously fake......
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Patrick Gamble: saw this at Berlin, a friend basically described the synopsis as - Girl dreams of touching a giraffe's belly - 90 gruell... -
Tue Sorensen: :-) OK, I don't even know that word! Can you give me a couple of examples of where it has been used?...
