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Archive for February, 2008

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

There Will Be Blood is a brilliant, if at times difficult, film about greed, vengeance, and the loss of faith that comes with the overwhelming, burning desire for success.
Review by Sarah Cronin

BATTLE FOR HADITHA

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Recreating a shocking incident of the Iraq war in an ultra-realist narrative, Nick Broomfield’s Battle For Haditha compellingly explores the viewpoints of all sides.
Review by Jason Wood

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Deserving the lukewarm reception it got at last year’s Cannes festival, Wong Kar Wai’s first American feature is visually striking but disappointingly banal and unsubstantial.
Review by Sarah Cronin

THE CONFORMIST

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Bertolucci’s lush, glorious masterpiece frames a struggle for Europe’s soul within an existential narrative of lost identity, sexual betrayal and cold-blooded murder.
Review by Tom Huddleston

NAKED YOUTH

Friday, February 1st, 2008

This early Nagisa Oshima work is an intense, unglamorous examination of sixties teen angst and rebellion steeped in history.
Review by Stephen Thomson

THE KILLERS

Friday, February 1st, 2008

The Killers was directed by noir maestro Robert Siodmak back to back with The Spiral Staircase, which is often considered his masterpiece. It was when mixing European and American sensibilities that he was at his best. The influence of German Expressionism, especially strong in The Spiral Staircase, is also evident in The Killers where it meshes perfectly with American hard-boiled existentialism.
Review by Paul Huckerby

EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2

Friday, February 1st, 2008

A second helping of ten fear-flavoured experimental shorts from San Francisco’s Other Cinema, home to underground legends Craig Baldwin and JX Williams, amongst others.
Review by Mark Pilkington

FRAU IM MOND

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Fritz Lang’s impressively prescient space travel movie may be let down by a flawed narrative but the context surrounding its creation remains endlessly fascinating.
Review by Philip Winter

DER LETZTE MANN

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Silent master FW Murnau’s experimental elegy to a disappearing world is a wordless tragicomic masterpiece.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff

THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Directed by Swedish silent master Victor Sjöström, this moral tale tinged with supernatural is released on DVD with a new score by KTL.
Review by Philip Winter