Cornerhouse Pick of the Week: Jeune et Jolie
Many may find François Ozon’s Jeune et Jolie, just a little bit ridiculous. On the surface it performs its stereotypical duties as a French movie perfectly. Sections of the film divided by the music of...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: How to Survive a Plague
If you’re interested in the upcoming drama Dallas Buyers Club, which sees Matthew McConaughey as an AIDS suffering activist, How to Survive a Plague is the perfect companion piece. Howard France’s...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Rough Cut
“I wanted the Xenomorph, what I got was this giant condom monster” So went the words of one of the disenchanted prop masters on this often charming and sometimes baffling film-within-a-film. Intended...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: The Invisible Woman
With his second feature as director, Ralph Fiennes has comfortably established himself as a highly talented cinematic presence both in front of and behind the camera. Like his previous film, the...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Her
Who are you? What’s out there? What are the possibilities? These catch-all questions are a wet dream for advertisers who’ll spin their products to appear like they have the answers. Whilst the backbone...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Only Lovers Left Alive
Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jaramusch’s new film, had reportedly been in development for seven years prior to its release, as Jaramusch had struggled to gain any significant financing up until now. But...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Sin otoño, sin primavera
Last week, I decided to kick off the annual VIVA! Film Festival by watching Iván Mora Manzano’s directorial debut Sin otoño, sin primavera and I’m still not 100% sure it was the right film to start the...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Under The Skin
It’s become something of a misnomer to say that a film won’t appeal to everyone. Film by its nature is subjective, and the notion that a piece of art could universally please everyone’s taste is an...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Yves Saint Laurent
Like all good wünderkind, the story of Yves Saint Laurent is a tumultuous one. Adapted and directed by César winning actor Jalil Lespert, Yves Saint Laurent has come under criticism for lacking depth,...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: In Order of Disappearance
Ever since Fargo (the film, not the Tim From The Office one) splashed its crimson brand of black humour all over snow-swept cinema screens in 1996, the world has been waiting for another...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Magic in the Moonlight
Woody Allen’s had a lot of criticism for the repetitive, fickle choices he’s made over the last 10 years, and undoubtedly Blue Jasmine was a breath of fresh air, but Magic in the Moonlight seems to me...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Ida
Identity—it is, as I believe they say, a theme as old as time itself, and it’s the theme that Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film tackles with an earnest and somewhat successful attempt at originality....
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Jimi: All Is By My Side
With 12 Years a Slave being director and writer John Ridley’s last release, this foray into the private life of one of rock’s most hallowed icons certainly promised to bring something fresh to the...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Nightcrawler
The city of Los Angeles has long been the backdrop to many a Hollywood film, naturally so, as filmmakers have merely to step outside their workplace in order to catch a whiff of L.A. life in action....
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Inherent Vice
Near the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel of the same name, Lieutenant Detective Bjornsen aka Bigfoot (Josh Brolin) uses one of his big feet to...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: The Duke of Burgundy
The Duke of Burgundy is the sort of movie that many will hate for the exact same reasons that many will love it. It’s unabashed oddness will undoubtedly alienate it to many, and more than a few people...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Love is Strange
The release of Ira Sachs’ drama Love is Strange marks the emergence of yet another Manhattan love story. The film invites its audience to follow lifelong couple Ben and George (convincingly played by...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Leviathan
Thank Google for subtitles. Not that without them this Russian language film would be any less powerful- it is a triumph in every aspect, visually most of all – but they certainly come in useful during...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: Still Alice
If you know about the Oscar win, I think it’s fair to say that Julianne Moore without a doubt stood out in this particular film. If you didn’t. Well… now you do. Expect a really, really gripping...
View ArticleCornerhouse Pick of the Week: White God
White God, known in its native language as Fehér isten, and Hungary’s nominee for this years Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, charts the relationship between a girl called Lili (played by Zsófia...
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