Valerie, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, is oddly matter of fact and accepting of the deep strangeness that envelops her. Thus, the dangling corpse of the priest who has tried to molest her is all in a week’s work for Valerie.
Review by Stephen Thomson

In April, the Polish film festival Kinoteka paid tribute to the recently deceased Polish master Jerzy Kawalerowicz, screening three of his films, including the acclaimed Mother Joan of Angels, a feverish exploration of sexual repression and religious fanaticism.
Review by Stephen Thomson

The sense of a vast and indifferent natural world is the keynote of the film. Throughout, human groups batter each other to smithereens, leaving isolated figures wandering, floundering in swamps, or crawling on all fours in the undergrowth of some of cinema’s most unnerving forestry.
Review by Stephen Thomson

Sex and Fury is a shining example of the peculiar potentials of exploitation cinema. It is thoughtful in ways that have nothing to do with chin-scratching; morally unencumbered, it is light on its feet in its exploration of some really quite daft desires.
Review by Stephen Thomson

Sergei Eisenstein may be famous for his ground-breaking montage technique and his ruthless efficiency as a Bolshevik propagandist but it is the strange, nightmarish moments that go beyond the political message that make his work enduringly fascinating.
Review by Stephen Thomson