Gun Crazy
‘I want things,’ says Laurie Starr, anti-heroine of cult film noir Gun Crazy.
Review by Frances Morgan
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Best DVD/Blu-ray Releases of 2011
Electric Sheep writers review the best DVD and Blu-ray releases in 2011.
Best Films of 2011
Electric Sheep writers review the best films of 2011.
Lawrence of Belgravia
This subtle portrait of a reclusive indie musician seems to have generated one of London Film Festival’s warmest responses.
Review by Frances Morgan
Melancholia
It’s hard not to draw parallels between Melancholia and The Tree of Life, this year’s other contender for the ‘Cosmic Opera’ Academy Award.
Review by Frances Morgan
Post Mortem
History is sometimes written by neither the winners nor the losers, but by the invisible transcribers and administrators.
Review by Frances Morgan
The Miners’ Hymns
Bill Morrison and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s The Miners’ Hymns made its first appearance last year in Durham Cathedral.
Review by Frances Morgan
Deep End
The story of teenage public bath attendant Mike and his sexual obsession with his co-worker Susan, Deep End is morally ambiguous in tone, pitched somewhere between psychosexual thriller and a dark coming-of-age comedy.
Review by Frances Morgan
Until the Light Takes Us
Almost two decades after a spate of vandalism, violence and murder turned a localised musical subculture-within-a-subculture into a bogey tale of extreme music begetting extreme acts, two American filmmakers set out to meet the progenitors of Norwegian black metal music and those who still seek to mythologise them.
Review by Frances Morgan
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s enchanting seventh feature is powered by an animist magic that is genuinely mysterious, the more so for being woven into a narrative of everyday life and death.
Review by Frances Morgan