By Matthew Sorrento. Review Filmmaker David Shields found an ideal style to document the onscreen (but off the field) career of NFL running back Marshawn Lynch (2007-18). Far from a fan documentary, Lynch: A […]
By Ali Moosavi. Three interesting documentaries screened at the Open City Documentary Festival in London, September 4-10, 2019. Sergei Loznitsa, the distinguished Ukrainian director known for films such as A Gentle Creature (2017) and […]
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There’s a scene in Ant Timpson’s debut feature Come to Daddy where Elijah Wood’s character, Norval Greenwood, is being verbally abused with such an extraordinarily […]
Under närmare 60 år har Eric M. Nilsson lyckats upprätthålla en produktiv karriär som filmare. Johannes Hagman har läst en antologi om svensk films […]
By Christopher Sharrett. In what follows I am conscious that Todd Phillips’ Joker is another addition by a corporation to its “DC universe,” although it is spoken of as a “stand […]
A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. As we move further into the new millennium, we appear to benefit not only from development of new technologies enabling access to visual material previously unavailable, but also […]
By James Slaymaker. It’s been less than a decade since the momentous critical and commercial success of Drive catapulted Nicolas Winding Refn from niche provocateur to international household name, yet the idea that […]
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. With its world premiere in the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery program, stalwart short film director Minos Nikolakakis turns to his feature debut with the extraordinary neo fairy […]
By Alex Ramon. Speaking with Film International last year , François Ozon asserted that, for him, “the story comes first” when choosing a project. In his new film, By the Grace of God ([…]
Nick Broomfield intar en ogenerad hållning till konceptet om musan i dokumentären om Leonard Cohens mest besjungna kärlek. Calle Wahlström ser en film som aldrig blir Marianne Ihlens egen berättelse.
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